Lately, many players have expressed concern over Street Fighter V’s built-in input delay. The reported numbers currently floating around indicate that the PlayStation 4 version of the title packs as many as 8 extra frames of lag for all inputs.

Now it seems that some players may have stumbled into a way to reduce this delay. According to a report by Japanese arcade stick and capture card enthusiast Shiryl, you can reduce input delay by using legacy controllers–even PS4 arcade sticks set to PS3 mode. While no hard testing data exists, Shiryl and their team stated that they noticed this when trying to capture footage from the game. They initially discovered this about three months ago and state that this still exists in the game’s current build.

As for why this is the case, the current theory is that, since this only works on Street Fighter V (and not other games with legacy controller support), the game actually adds extra frames of delay for some unknown reason, but that the developers forgot to apply this to legacy controllers.

That said, they noted that there is one downside to this: legacy controllers can, in rare occasions, drop a player’s inputs. While this reduction in delay does still require further testing to be verified, those who own a legacy controller and are looking for any means possible to help mitigate their input delay may want to give it a try.

Source: Shiryl, via MadMan’s Café