/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6574682]

What controller do you use? I’ve been using the rumble pad 2 since 2006 and I love it

[Anonymous No.6574726]

>>6574682
Does it have pressure sensitive buttons like a real DS2?

[Anonymous No.6574737]

>>6574682
I have one of these but I haven't used it in years. Will it work on a playstation classic?

[Anonymous No.6574801]

Snakebyte PS3 controller from Walmart. It's trash.

[Anonymous No.6574836]

>>6574682
I had one of those for years but the D pad broke after probably around 5 years

I've used this one for about five years since then, great D pad, but the triangle button has gone soft, which really ruins playing fighting games ironically enough and I'm sure the other buttons will at some time soon enough as well. Is there any controller where the contacts won't get fucked and limp or melt away or whatever the hell happens when they lose friction?

[Anonymous No.6574846]

>>6574682
Same, but the wireless version. Going strong after more than a decade as well.
>>6574726
No, it doesn't. Actually it doesn't even have triggers at the back, but just buttons.

[Anonymous No.6574862]

>>6574682
>pc
>nyko airflo wired usb controller
>android while on back in bed with device hanging over face
>some cheap psx tier like op related but lost actual logitek usb wired years ago and is actually wireless (covered name in eleectrical tape
>has worn out buttons too
Anyway
>backup controller is 8Bitdo N30 that works through it's wire and also bluetooth so can on back android gaming or on old laptop
>can buy clip so can turn android cell into 'handheld console' tier shit

I miss my logitek. A friend took it and forgot to give it back. He moved away.

[Anonymous No.6574941]

>>6574682
Yeah I've got one and I use it all the time. Pretty good overall, even though ive never played anything that worked with the rumble

[Anonymous No.6574942]

>>6574682
One thing to note, it only supports direct input and not games that only work with xbox input

[Anonymous No.6574946]

Sn30pro+ matte black vers. I love it, I think it's great. Very nice SNES style dpad and buttons with good (if a little cheaper feeling) analogue sticks. The bumpers feel better than an XB1 pad but inferior to the DS4, which is my go for souls games. For me, the big draw is just how versatile it is. Snes style dpad in the neutral position makes it great for emulation and the fact that it can switch between Xinput, Dinput and Switch mode with fucking button combos is unreal. I use the Xinput mode for non-steam games and retroarch and then reboot it into Switch mode for Steam Input for pc games with gyro and shit. I used to use the DS4 for pc games but DS4Windows and Steam Input just kept fucking everything up with Steam commandeering the input outside of the program. It's not the prettiest controller but the feel and build quality are very good for the price. Using it as a 2nd Switch pro controller is nice too.

[Anonymous No.6574950]

>>6574946
My Sn30pro+ starting giving me bad ghost up/downs after about 6 months on the D-Pad. Made Kaizo hacks unplayable

[Anonymous No.6575040]

When I was a kid my parents couldn't afford to get me one for Christmas, and miraculously my mother won one from Taco Bell. They had a promotion running called "score 45 and win". My mom was really depressed at how me and my brother only asked for the one shared gift, and we couldn't afford it, she had a dream that night in which she saw my dead grandfather on the beach and he told her everything was gonna be okay. The next day she stopped at taco bell drive through for a soda after work (something she'd never done before), and peeled off the label on the cup and found out that we won. On Christmas day after me and my brother opened all our gifts, we tried to not let the dissapointment on our faces show because we knew the situation, and while we hadn't gotten what we hoped for, we didn't want it to show. My parents then had us open this one last gift. Me and my bro unwrapped a plastic taco bell cup, (the controller hadn't arrived in the mail yet) and were confused until they said "read it", we did, and we lost our minds with happiness. You always see those contests, and you think nobody ever wins, but they do. Till this day, I still can't believe it happened, and made it the most memorable Christmas of my life. God is good.

[Anonymous No.6575048]

>>6575040
>>god is good

[Anonymous No.6575123]

>>6575040
Good for you anon. God is good indeed.

[Anonymous No.6575445]

Logitech Dual Action. The d-pad is kind of shitty but whatever, I mostly just play easy shit anyways

[Anonymous No.6575579]

>>6574682
The Logitech F710 is a nice wireless controller that looks like this and has xinput, colored buttons and a switch for directinput.
Resident Evil 1 on PC worked like a charm with it.

[Anonymous No.6575686]

>>6574682
Good, I'm happy for you anon.
Maybe remove it from your inside of your ass once and a while though. It can't be good for you.

[Anonymous No.6575691]

>>6575040
Please tell me your mother and brother are dead now.

[Anonymous No.6575698]

>>6575579
Yes, even the latest Logitech models have a dinput-xinput switch.

[Anonymous No.6575713]

>>6574682
I had this growing up and it's actually one of the worst controllers I've ever used. Square analog gates? Disc based d-pad where the entire thing sinks in if you press it in the center or during diagonals?

[Anonymous No.6575812]

gravis gamepad pro

[Anonymous No.6576105]

>>6574942
Right. Trying to play a modern game with it is a crap shoot

[Anonymous No.6576147]

>>6574836
I mean five years isn’t bad anon, all controllers are made from relatively cheap materials and won’t last more than a few years of heavy use at most.

[Anonymous No.6576152]

8bitdo M30.
It's very good

[Anonymous No.6576208]

>>6574682
Maybe I just had bad luck, but I have had like 4 of these and they all broke fairly quickly.

Had pic related for about 7 years of good use, buy recently started dying.

Currently use an 8bitdo sn30pro or a PS3 controller for 2d games (like 95% of what I play) and an Xbox 360 controller that has no Xbox branding on it so I assume it's some kind of knockoff for 3d games.

[Anonymous No.6576240]

>>6574682
My brotha. Been using a basic Dual Action since 2010 and I haven't had any issues.

I don't see why people love to dogpile on this controller though. It may not be top of the line, but it's not horrible. Even the circular D-Pad is better for diagonals than other controllers I've used.

[Anonymous No.6576381]

my old silver dualshock 2 with a usb adapter

[Anonymous No.6576419]

>>6574682

Oh shit I still use this and it's the same one I've had since 2006

Outside of emulation, depending on the game if it doesn't support DirectInput I also use x360ce so I can use this layout despite having a wired 360 controller.

[Anonymous No.6576420]

>>6574846
>No, it doesn't. Actually it doesn't even have triggers at the back, but just buttons.

The PS2 controller didn't have triggers either you doublenigger

[Anonymous No.6576424]

>>6576240

Why is this so fucking spekkled?

[Anonymous No.6576458]

I've used an F310 for about 6 years now. It's been a great controller for the amount I payed for it.
Only just recently the up on the D-Pad has started to become randomly unresponsive. Same with the R1 trigger, probably just because I played a lot of Ape Escape.

[Anonymous No.6576480]

>>6574682
Depends whether or not I want to bother grabbing a Mayflash USB to SNES/N64 converter out of the cable box, or to just sit down with my DS4.

[Anonymous No.6576556]

>>6576240
>I don't see why people love to dogpile on this controller though.
Same shit build quality as >>6576458

[Anonymous No.6576560]

A WiiU Pro and a Pokken Controller

I need a good 6 button option. I wish the Pokken Controller had 6 face buttons instead of putting ZL and ZR next to the fucking menu buttons, but whatever.

[Anonymous No.6576563]

>>6576556
For what you pay for it's a great controller though.

[Anonymous No.6576786]

>>6576480
Are those adapters any good, specifically the n64 one? I’ve been debating on whether to pick one up for a while

[Anonymous No.6577045]

>>6574682
>1,2,3,4
Xinput was an absolute saving grace from old dinput controllers and their ununiform button naming conventions.

[Anonymous No.6577047]

>>6576458
I had an f710 which I smashed against a wall for some dumb reason. The dpad wasn't great so nothing of value was lost that day.

[Anonymous No.6577078]

>>6576563
then you might as well pay more and get a better controller.

[Anonymous No.6577315]

>>6576458
>>6574682
>>6576240
>>6576480

i have 3 f310 (i got them one year ago) : one got its bumpers damaged one time i dropped it by accident, the second one have problems with the right trigger and is always being detected as pressed even when physically is not being pressed, the third one is not detecting too easily the right bumper...
yet my only 710 is not damaged and works fine but i dont want to use wireless shit cuz im too schizo about radio signals

>>6576381
psOne digital controller with usb is so based

>>6577045
everyone had their own conventions, still to this day, thats why theres software to hook xinput

[Anonymous No.6577886]

>>6574682
Oh man I remember that

[Anonymous No.6578146]

Where can I get replacement rubber/silicone pads for my buffalo classic controllers dpad, it makes this awful squeak and sticks, and regular replacement snes pads don't fit.

[Anonymous No.6578247]

>>6575040
why are you trying to push this fucking meme

[Anonymous No.6578410]

>>6574682
There has to be something wrong with me.

[Anonymous No.6578454]

>>6578410
I always liked the Duke

[Anonymous No.6578548]

>>6578410
Nope. I like the Duke and I own one.

[Anonymous No.6578661]

I use a PS2 Dualshock 2

I just bought this off of ebay, straight from Japan. a SCPH-1010, this is the first PS1 controller (from 1994). The fact that it doesn't have analog sticks is immediately noticeable, but this version of the PS1 controller is also noteworthy because it's 10% smaller than the North American version. I'm really anxious to get my hands on it and see how it feels, because I like small controllers.

[Anonymous No.6578747]

>>6574682
First party controllers with original hardware, Xbox One controller emulating on my PC, and pic related playing emulators on my phone.

[Anonymous No.6578767]

>>6578410
Thats a big boy

[Anonymous No.6578768]

>>6577315
>psOne digital controller with usb is so based
1. that's a silver ps2 controller, not a white psone controller
2. there's no such thing as a digital-only psone controller, the psone came out in 2000, they'd stopped making digital-only controllers for 3 years at that point
if you just meant psone to refer to any psx/playstation... i still have mine of those as well

[Anonymous No.6578774]

>>6578768
>there's no such thing as a digital-only psone controller

PS Classic's PS1 controller.

[Anonymous No.6578779]

>>6578774
didn't know the classic used original style controllers
though it's still using the original playstation design, not the psone design
remember: "PSone" is the newer white "slim" version of the playstation

[Anonymous No.6578787]

dude

[Anonymous No.6579110]

>>6574942
Not a problem for old games. Steam supports it out of the box so all xinput software can use it anyway.

[Anonymous No.6579280]

>>6579110
i wish i could remember but there was a few games i had that the controller wasnt supported on since it wasnt xbox controller

[Anonymous No.6579296]

>>6578767
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[Anonymous No.6579318]

>>6579280
That's probably prior to steam's new controller config. There are a lot of mid2000 games that would specifically look for the 360 controller and only the 360 controller, but if you run it through steam then you can pretty much just have steam tell the game that whatever you're using is a 360 controller and it'll work. It's a really good system.

[Anonymous No.6579343]

>>6576240
I got the model that uses not-xbox color and letters. Only complaint I have is the bumper buttons are getting slightly unresponsive over the years

[Anonymous No.6579471]

[Anonymous No.6579484]

>>6578661

I had the north American one with no analog sticks, that was my favorite PS1 controller for many years.

[Anonymous No.6579590]

There's two that I use.
SN30 Pro Plus and the Hori Pokken Tournament.

Pokken was for emulation, the 8bitdo was for Switch.

Both have great dpads. Mostly use it on Android and Switch. I mostly use the Hori on PC.

Something people don't talk about with the SN30 Pro + is that it has it's own removable battery BUT CAN ALSO TAKE DOUBLE AAS. I love this because it means pontentially it could last long after the couple years it takes for the battery to lose it's charge. Or I can hot swap when the batteries get low.

[Anonymous No.6579670]

>>6579590
>DOUBLE AAS
took me a sec to realise you meant "two double a's"

[Anonymous No.6579705]

>>6579471
This is what I use. I wish there were something with the same specs, but better quality.

[Anonymous No.6579716]

Retro games
Future controller

[Anonymous No.6579720]

>>6579716
More like a failed controller. LOL That controller also looks very gay.

[Anonymous No.6579792]

>>6576563
>the up on the D-Pad has started to become randomly unresponsive. Same with the R1 trigger
>For what you pay for it's a great controller though.
Yeah for cheap shit you get what you pay for.

[Anonymous No.6579835]

>>6579792
Six fucking years though.

[Anonymous No.6579837]

>>6579716
That is an ugly ass controller. I would never buy that.

[Anonymous No.6579863]

>>6576786
They work, and I haven't had any issue with compatibility on emulators -- the machining on the parts can be a bit hit or miss. The N64 usb connector is literally difficult to insert anywhere, the casing isn't bent or anything, it's just oversized. If you're not too worried about fucking up a port, go ahead. If you are concerned, maybe get a cheap usb hub that you also don't care about to interface with.

[Anonymous No.6579876]

>>6579716
I like that controller but I couldn't really imagine playing retro consoles with it

[Anonymous No.6580853]

>>6579876
Have you used it? I haven't ever held one, but the D-Pad just looks like a non-starter for me

[Anonymous No.6581507]

>>6579716
Worst controller ever. Had to get a refund. This is clearly the worst PC controller ever made.

[Anonymous No.6581552]

>>6581507
Ita actually more effective than mouse and keyboard, at least, empirically

[Anonymous No.6581863]

I bought a steam controller some months ago really cheap when Valve was getting rid of their stock.

Pro's:
~INFINITE POSSIBILITIES~
dual haptic touchpads
gyros
lots of buttons that you can map however you like

Con's
steep learning curve
you will have to tinker with it a bunch
Probably very weak for retro console games because it doesn't have a traditional d-pad, however... you might just be a cool enough guy to master playing 2D sidescrollers with touch, analog stick, or even motion controls. While, by default, you "can" click a direction for D-Pad movement, the amount of pressure that you have to press for that *click* is really heavy. I wouldn't dare use the default layout for a 2D sidescroller game, you'd have to get creative.

[Anonymous No.6581868]

>>6574682
I have one similar but steam constantly fucks controller inputs

[Anonymous No.6581915]

>>6578661
I have the SCPH-1080 I got it for like 2 USD, is there any difference between those two models?

[Anonymous No.6581987]

>>6581915
not really, just that the Japanese SCPH-1010 is 10% smaller than the North American version.

Also, the nip that I bought that controller off of cancelled the order earlier today. He told me that the Japan Post isn't shipping to the U.S. due to corona, so I am really fucking disappointed right now :/

[Anonymous No.6582709]

>>6581552
That controller just isn't comfy to me. I prefer my mouse and keyboard over that. I also prefer my Xbox One controller over the Steam Controller.

>>6581863
What a waste of money. This controller is definitely not good for retro console games. My go-to retro console game controllers are the Sega Saturn USB controller for retro consoles like the Genesis, and Sega Saturn, and my Xbox One controller for retro consoles like PS1, SNES, N64 and Sega Dreamcast.

[Anonymous No.6582715]

it's ok but somehow it doesn't charge from my PC's usb ports, only from a phone charger

[Anonymous No.6582751]

>>6578410
I bought 2. I use it all the time

[Anonymous No.6582883]

>>6574682
I'm currently an F310 user when playing games that use an analog stick. But for games played on a dpad, I have a stronger preference for the Saitek P2500 because the one on this controller molds around your thumb. As much as I love the SCPH-1080 due to it's durable and precise d-pad, you guys really just have to try it out for yourselves to know what I'm talking about.

[Anonymous No.6583183]

for the longest time I used pic related.
it was actually pretty good for a pc gamepad, comfortable to use for hours, vibration was good and didn't sound like something was loose inside.
after some years the dpad rubber pads wore off, but I repaired it by taking the metallic domes of a nokia cellphone keypad, so the repaired dpad was clicky like a vita dpad, but required a little more pressure.
after a couple other years the left stick crapped out and had to retired it.
after that I got a sixaxis (yes, the no rumble ps3 controller) from a friend that lent it to me.
I can't remember what I got after I returned the sixaxis, I guess I got nothing until I got a ps3 of my own.

[Anonymous No.6583204]

>>6574682
>shit floating dpad
>square gates
Yeah, Logitrash is great if you're dirt poor and don't actually play games often.

[Anonymous No.6583207]

>>6579835
>Six fucking years though.
During which you yourself admit it's starting to break down. Stop being a Logicuck and buy something better.

[Anonymous No.6583327]

>>6583204
now I know you don't know shit. the logitech d-pad is one of the most versatile shapes I've used. it's comparable to a genny dpad but that's a whole other can of worms.

[Anonymous No.6583540]

>>6574682
>since 2006 and I love it
since 2005 and I love it

[Anonymous No.6583628]

>>6574682
DS4. PSC controller. SNES mini controller through elecom adapter.

[Anonymous No.6583638]

>>6575812
super based gravis user

[Anonymous No.6583660]

amazon basics xbox one wired controller

[Anonymous No.6583674]

>>6579876
>>6580853
It's pretty great actually. No DPad wear and no analog wear. It's not as terrible as playing on phone, there's actually some feedback on it. The textured touchpad is also nice. One of the best gamepads for fighting games unironically.

[Anonymous No.6583778]

>>6576208
The shoulder triggers on the SN 30 Pro are analog, not just buttons, right?
Also, how is the ergonomics when using the sticks?

[Anonymous No.6583857]

>>6574682
I had that and the d pad dont even work anymore.
Currently using a Chinese version of a 360 controller, and it basically rules.

[Anonymous No.6584214]

>>6574682
I used to own that controller, OP. It's probably the best I've owned.

I currently on an $8 brandless chinkshit SNES controller, but I'm thinking of upgrading to an 8BitDo wireless controller, not sure if worth it.

[Anonymous No.6584293]

>>6574682
For a while I used those see-through rock-candy 360 clones, because they were on sale once for like 8$ 6 years ago and I bought a few.
I have the cheapo logitechs too.

[Anonymous No.6584315]

>>6579716
patrician taste

>>6581507
>>6579837
pleb filtered.

[Anonymous No.6584332]

>>6584315
>Enjoys tickling Gaybe Newell's nipples

[Anonymous No.6584340]

it just werks
wish I could get one of those offical saturn USB controllers but they are super expensive and rare
all knockoff saturn controllers I've tried were dogshit

[Anonymous No.6584347]

I ordered this controller a couple of days ago. I intend to only use it with my phone (retroarch and steam link). small, wireless, and has all the buttons.

[Anonymous No.6584515]

>>6584315
>filtered
Yes, Valve sure filtered their own shitty controller.

[Anonymous No.6584830]

>>6584340
The dpad on this thing should be illegal. Trying to do precise things in super metroid with it made me wanna throw it through a window.

[Anonymous No.6584850]

>>6576458
ive gone through two within the last 3 years. they're cheap, but shit.

[Anonymous No.6584867]

>>6584340
this has been my go to for years on PC. just plug it in and works with pretty much anything. i personally love it and its my favorite controller ever but i see where >>6584830 is coming from. ive been there.

[Anonymous No.6585646]

>>6584850
Worst Logitech controller ever. Huge deadzone issue and overall low quality.

[Anonymous No.6586236]

This combined with your favorite Bluetooth controller such as PS4, Xbox, or the WiiU classic controller pro.

[Anonymous No.6586445]

>>6583778
For some reason my triggers are analog when I’m x-input mode, and buttons when I’m in d-input.

[Anonymous No.6588531]

>>6584347
Interested in trying this one out. A cheap d-pad focused xinput controller is something I've been wanting for a while.

[Anonymous No.6588535]

>>6588531
I'll post my impressions on it when it arrives tomorrow.

[Anonymous No.6588947]

>>6584830
>>6584867
it really is shit but I'm so used to it that I can work with it, I actually use it for fightans and can do DPs and instant air dashes easy