/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1698760]

How do you prefer to play games you have to emulate for various reasons; keyboard, or usb controller?

[Anonymous No.1698778]

Keyboard and mouse

[Anonymous No.1698782]

>>1698760
saturn adapter for 2d, playstation for 3d

[Anonymous No.1698786]

Keyboard until I need an analog stick.

[Anonymous No.1698821]

not same quality as original but ok

[Anonymous No.1698832]

DS3 pad since it's easy to hook up and has a pretty good dpad which is necessary for retro games. I could never use a keyboard. Way too uncomfy.

[Anonymous No.1698842]

I have to use my logitech gamepad for many things simply because my laptop is so old that it still has one of those keyboards that can't register too many buttons being pressed at the same time.

[Anonymous No.1699101]

This

[Anonymous No.1699131]

>>1698760
I hate KB/M for anything that isn't an FPS or strategy game.

[Anonymous No.1699159]

You have excellent taste in keyboards OP. I'm using one right now. Spilled water in the fucker twice and survived with no damage. Also dem macros.

[Anonymous No.1699209]

Depends on what I'm playing.

I have two main controllers that I use. A Buffalo SNES pad, and a PS4 controller. Both of which do what they do very well.

On some occasions, I'll use my arcade stick, which is same model posted here.
>>1699101
Only difference is that I didn't change the art yet, and I modded it with a PS360+ for easy use and because it didn't work with my Classic Controller to USB adapter fucking Mad Catz

[Anonymous No.1699358]

On the rare occasions I emulate anything, keyboard, because I'm too lazy to pull out and configure a control pad.
And whatever pads I did pick up from thrifts are unusable anyway because while in storage, the grippy rubbery surfaces somehow turn into something disgusting and sticky.

[Anonymous No.1699398]

This. I do use a Classic Controller Pro for Tetris Attack though--it's the only game I'm not comfortable playing at my high skill level on WASD due to my meatier thumb being better at mashing directions sequentially.

[Anonymous No.1699439]

D-pad sooooo much improved over the 360, it isn't even funny.

ABXY buttons feel good

[Anonymous No.1699962]

>>1698760
keyboard for arcade shooters(like dodonpachi or raiden)
usb controller for most console games.

[Anonymous No.1700176]

This way.

[Anonymous No.1700285]

with over-engineered d-pads and square sticks

[Anonymous No.1700310]

>>1698760
Keyboards using WASD and the number pad.

[Anonymous No.1700323]

I have a USB Sega Saturn pad that is probably the best investment i have ever made. Not only is this my favorite controller for retro, but because I threw it in the case of a broken saturn controller (Mainboard was bad) It has the sturdy build quality of the original, and the same button feel.

[Anonymous No.1701026]

>>1698786
This.

>>1699159
Which one is that? Don't recognize it.

[Anonymous No.1701040]

I use a bunch of different Mayflash adapters.

SNES is my go to controller, if the game can swing it. So, everything SNES/Genesis and prior for sure, most handhelds, and PC games that feel better with a controller but don't need more buttons than what SNES has.

N64 I have to use the authentic controller.

Some PSX/PS2 games I use dual shock for.

For modern games, I use my wired Xbox 360 controller, since it is plug and play. Then I pray the game doesn't require much d-pad use.

[Anonymous No.1701108]

>>1701026
Q-Pad's MK series.
I have the MK50 (cheapest version with nothing extra) with red micro switches and while it is great for games (especially pinball), it sucks for writing.

[Anonymous No.1701121]

>>1701108
Looks great. I especially like the USB and headphone pass-through. I had to buy a shitty extender cable in order to use my IEMs on the computer.

Not sure which kind of switch I'd get. I'm using a cheap ass generic mechanical keyboard that just feels incredible no matter what I do with it, and I'm not sure what kind of switch it uses.

[Anonymous No.1701994]

>>1700285
That looks absolutely atrocious to play on.

[Anonymous No.1702546]

>>1699439
the moment i held the 360 controller changed my life. I will never use another controller again.
It changed my life

[Anonymous No.1705113]

What controller should I use for my Nexus 5 that isn't a dualshock because screw shelling out $50 and wiping my whole device and jumping through 1000 hoops for root.

[Anonymous No.1705115]

>>1705113
dualshock 2
>playstation 2 to usb converter
>phone charger from there to your phone
10/10 cash

[Anonymous No.1705116]

>>1698760
I play with either a ps2 or ps3 controller.
ps3 when i want to fuck with motionjoy, it's nice because it's wireless but mj is such a piece of shit i usually just stick with my ps2 controllers. Also with the ps2 controller i never have to remap

[Anonymous No.1705379]

>>1705116
>using motioninjoy

Enjoy your Chinese malware.

[Anonymous No.1707371]

>>1702546
For any game that doesn't need heavy D-Pad use, it's amazing as hell.

[Anonymous No.1707393]

>>1698760
I can't stand using keyboards on emulators. I use a USB gamepad.

That being said, I play PC games exclusively with M/KB.

[Anonymous No.1707439]

For modern games I'll use a PS3 controller with the SCP drivers, I can't seem to get bluetooth working on it though.

For retro games, I have a PS1 controller without the analogue sticks with a USB adapter. I prefer it to the SNES contoller, which I used before.

[Anonymous No.1707790]

>>1698782
This man gets it.

[Anonymous No.1708661]

These two, depending on the game.

I also have a Controller S, but I barely use it.

[Anonymous No.1708675]

>>1705379
what else is there?
I don't really like the betterds3

[Anonymous No.1708698]

>>1708675
Google "scarlet crush productions".
You're welcome.

[Anonymous No.1708708]

>>1708661
I have that logitech controller, pretty solid and if I recall it was pretty cheap.

[Anonymous No.1709281]

Bought two of these and haven't been happier. I'm still hoping they put out an SNES controller sooner than later.

I was using a series of adapters to use proper controllers but it got too tedious mapping each controller and keeping everything in hyperspin happy - so I found myself using PS3 more often than not.

tl;dr, picture or ps3

[Anonymous No.1709289]

>>1709281
are those shoulder buttons? I wanna know where you got those, they look like they would be nice for a mediapc/console I'm planning on slapping together

[Anonymous No.1709294]

>>1709289
http://www.nes30.com/

It does have shoulder buttons, but prepare yourself for NES thumbs til it gets broken in. They also have a famicom variant, which I read several places has inferior build quality to this one.

[Anonymous No.1709319]

>>1709281
>>1709294
I bought one of these and I love it.
I haven't tried the FC30 version, but I hear it's a vast improvement.
No input lag and it's simple as fuck to use.

[Anonymous No.1710051]

>>1709319
FC30 version is the older one, they had two variants: One accented with real gold, and the mass produced one. I've heard nothing but awesome things about the gold one, but the mass produced ones were a little squeaky.

My only real complaint about the NES30 is that its pretty light, though it feels very solid overall. No squeaks, no lag.

[Anonymous No.1710057]

You could also use the Madcatz remote with a ps2 dongle. Its one of the few things Madcatz put out that wasn't terrible

[Anonymous No.1710061]

>>1710057
forgot picture

[Anonymous No.1710096]

>>1707790
finally, someone agrees. The rest of you are plebian with your nes clone controllers. things are unergonomic as fuck!

[Anonymous No.1710098]

Alllllrighty...
I use the 360 MadCatz on the left for PC gaming because most games support 360 easily (if I had a wired official this would be collecting dust, but it really isn't a bad controller at all) and so I used this for various emulators.

Then I found the GAME store's own brand PC controller I picked up in the PS2 era. The thing looks cheap but feels just like a DualShock, it originally had awful plastic 'rubber' grips on the front that I tore out. I've been using this for emulation.

Today I bought my first OG PS1 controller, as I grew up with DualShock. Now I really want to use this for emu as I never use sticks. Will this work with a USB adaptor guys?

[Anonymous No.1711239]

>>1710098
help?

[Anonymous No.1711253]

>>1710098
Yes a PlayStation USB adapter will work with PlayStation controllers.

[Anonymous No.1711582]

>>1710061
That thing looks ridiculous and uncomfortable.

[Anonymous No.1711684]

>>1700285
I had the wired version of that controller (logitech dual-action usb)... god damn that was a horrible controller. It was far too easy to go diagonally on the D-pad, and the analog sticks would always drift off-center. I had a logitech precision before that (same as dual action but with a different D-pad and no analog sticks) that wasn't much better.

I currently use a Gravis GamePad Pro USB that works MUCH better than the Logitechs ever did.

[Anonymous No.1711690]

>>1711684
Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.1711704]

>>1711690
Everything about that controller is mushy and creaky. I don't like the Logitechs too much either but I no longer use my Gravis and am currently using a Logitech PS3 wireless USB controller on my computer.

[Anonymous No.1711720]

I use this pile of shit.

Okay, so it's not all that bad, but I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I wanted the six face buttons. I don't even play Genesis games.

http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Button-USB-2-0-Game-Controller/dp/B00AEWTSWU

[Anonymous No.1711773]

>>1711720
That looks like it'd be okay for N64, Genesis, and Saturn games.
How's the controller feel?

[Anonymous No.1711806]

>>1711773
The trigger buttons are a little squishier than I like, but the d-pad is glorious. Best I've used in a while. The joysticks are nothing special, but they do the job fine and feel like a Dualshock 2. But for playing N64 games or handhelds, the face buttons are a little closer together than I'd like and I usually press the wrong one, but it's probably just my sausage fingers and I'll get used to it. I expected less for ten bucks.