Not sure if it has been posted, but I picked up one of the USB FourScore conversions from http://www.retrousb.com/ and an old set of original NES controllers for FCEU etc. because I *really* dislike the old painful D-pad on the PS2 controllers I have been previously using. (Not that the original NES controller was without pain after long gaming stints!) ;)
What stuff do you guys prefer to use for controllers when you use them? :)
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I have two of those SNES gamepads converted into USB with some chip thingy inside it. It's not as good as it looks, and I frequently have to use JoyToKey to use it properly, but it's really awesome for SNES and NES games.
The D-pad on them are actually pretty bad, but not as bad as the PS1/2 ones.
As for the future of gamepads, I'm eagerly awaiting my "Wii", and I hope someone will make an adapter for PC so I can use that baby for everything. :D
I just read up on the Wii today, looks very neat. No doubt there will be some conversion going on with those.
Additionally I picked up 2 of the Saturn remakes, the model 2 controllers that were closely related to the 6-button Genesis pads. They were a bit pricey at $30-40 each, but already USB and made from Sega and not a 3rd party.
I liked the Four Score adapter since it had some good feedback and it will just take standard classic NES pads in case some of them break down.
I guess next up would be the N64 Adaptoids. Haven't gotten those yet so I can reuse my old N64 pads since they are still my last functional game controllers that haven't broken yet. :)
Will be running out of USB slots before long!
Not sure if it has been posted, but I picked up one of the USB FourScore conversions from http://www.retrousb.com/ and an old set of original NES controllers for FCEU etc. because I *really* dislike the old painful D-pad on the PS2 controllers I have been previously using. (Not that the original NES controller was without pain after long gaming stints!) ;)
What stuff do you guys prefer to use for controllers when you use them? :)
Right now, I'm using a Thrustmaster digital 8 button + d-pad controller for making single player TASes. I use the face buttons to control the A, B and C buttons and the shoulder buttons to control Start, Frame Advance, Toggle 50% Mode and Pause Emulation buttons. For everything else, I use the standard DualShock for normal PS2 games and Cobalt Fluxes for the arrow stomping games (DDR/In The Groove).
I've dabbled a bit with creating two player TASes in Gens by using two keyboards, one on the table and one on my lap, so that I can register 7+ keys at the same time. It's a clunky solution to the problem but it works--well, sort of. Sometimes I have to keep trying different combinations of keys and keyboards to get all the keypresses to register.
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If you're not lazy, use windows XP, and know how to use a soldering iron, go here.
You can hook up to 5 SNES controllers into your useless parallel port. Works perfectly.
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