@Plasma Captain: YUP, SAME LOSER, DIFFERENT NAME. I refer to him as BDR on here since I think that's the name he signed up under (not that he posts here often, although he's wondered if he should), but I first knew him as Sakaki and tend to default to that. BDR is the name he uses as a translator, though, and since he's usually relevant to this forum in a translation capacity I figured I'd use that.

RE: SBR patch, I tested out the controls for offline play and definitely found a marked improvement -- I now feel much more comfortable using the joystick than the not-really-a-d-pad.