What controller do you use in Retropie?
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I've got an ipac and custom sanwa buttons and joystick for my mini arcade machine set up.
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I personally use the SNES30 Bluetooth controller from 8BitDO. Looks like a SNES controller and feels really good.
I believe the SNES30 Pro is more popular because of the dual analog but I didn't want the sticks AND for the price of one PRO pad I could buy a pair of the SNES30's. Maybe the next build. 😁
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For 2d fighters I will also definitely check out the officially licensed Sega Saturn controllers (made by Retro-Bit) that get released this november and are supposed to be the same quality as the original hardware. I do hope to see some reviews first, because at the moment Retro-Bit doesn't have a great reputation.
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@bobharris said in What controlle do you use in Retropie?:
... because at the moment Retro-Bit doesn't have a great reputation.
I feel I have missed something. Why is that?
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@classicgmr License violations - see the RetroArch team blog at https://www.libretro.com/index.php/category/retro-bit/.
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But also the quality of controllers they currently put on the market. They already have a line of unofficial Saturn style controllers. The new official line is 3 times more expensive (from about $10 to $30) so I do expect a great increase in quality.
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@bobharris said in What controlle do you use in Retropie?:
The new official line is 3 times more expensive (from about $10 to $30) so I do expect a great increase in quality.
Or in revenue. ;)
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how many 8bitdo controllers can i use simultaneously on a pi3 ? some snes games are 5 players so the question is how many pads can i connect via bluetooth
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@niculinux said in What controller do you use in Retropie?:
Logitech F310
I have been looking for a possible new controller. I currently use the Buffalo USB SNES controller and I am on my third one. I find the cross pass tends to wear out and eventually get stuck.
I have never been hard with controllers. I just can't play fighters like Darkstalkers or SF types that require pad combos or the cross pad breaks down faster.
I do also have to have a "Turbo" button as it's nice to have to press only a button down once and let it go, I.E. for side scrolling brawlers or MAME games, then to continue to press a button over and over.
I don't see too many 3rd party controllers with a "Turbo" button.
I see SNES30 Pro has one but reviews seem mixed on it.
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@mat I use iBuffalo and PS3 controllers. I didn't care for the XBox dpad but it works really great with systems that need analog sticks. The logitechs get a lot of love everywhere I read and 8bitdo is 50-50 in reviews though I bought some of the sn30s and they worked pretty well.
In case you didn't know, you can set a turbo button in retroarch very easily. So let's say you have a SNES style controller with 4 buttons available, you could do something for NES/arcade like use the bottom two as regular buttons and set the top two as full time turbos. Worked great for me in Contra.
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Not bad and if you can find last years model it is cheap.. This one is by powera
I love the NES Classic by 8bitdo.
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Depending on the game I play I use either a SN30 Pro
Or a Ratro-bit Sega controller
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@niculinux I also use the EasyMSX. I like the hands-free turbo button mode, I just have to remember to turn it off before I try and save state or all hell breaks loose.
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I'm using proper arcade controllers with a Zero Lag USB controller.
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@mat said in What controller do you use in Retropie?:
I have never been hard with controllers. I just can't play fighters like Darkstalkers or SF types that require pad combos or the cross pad breaks down faster.
Weel actually i'm more of a "plug and play guy" instead of "plug and pray", since i like havin Always all stuff lock and load since i don't have much time for experimentation :) the f310 as far as i've seen is the most compatible gamepad so far, pheraps the Retropie wiki under the "controller" section needs to be updated. EasyMSX gave me no problems in recalbox, while in retroie i had some issues. Gonna eventually give up usin it in retropie, i'll give away as a gift… ;) Gonna take a second f310 as soon as i manage
Yesterday i stumble across aan Xtreme force shock pad (USB wired gamepad) mod 94270, very very cheap, i paid 10 euros only, not extremely compatible with retropie; emulationstation detected it as "microntek USB joystick", and thoug all key were recognized, i was not able to configure analog sticks because these are reporte as "already taken" by emulationstation (seens as the dpad i suppose). Though the gamepad seems to have nice quality seems to work but with variuous flaws, in some games and systems analog sticks have configuration swapped (in carmageddon for ps1 up/down left/right) and sometimes act weridly (in gryzor for c64 using the right one causes game to reset at the title screen). Usually the more cheaper they are the more problems are likely to give, especially in linux based systems (don'tknow if/how android may handle them), so i would not advice these.
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I've heard also that linq usb wired gamepad are not very compatible with retropie, can anyone confirm please?! Edit: bigger picture of the controller
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@niculinux Does your EasyMSX mysteriously register presses of the Y button at the most inopportune times? Mine had that issue for a while, but went away as mysteriously as it started.
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@victimrlsh said in What controller do you use in Retropie?:
@niculinux Does your EasyMSX mysteriously register presses of the Y button at the most inopportune times? Mine had that issue for a while, but went away as mysteriously as it started.
No, i sat it up varous times in emulationstation but nothing, but i already gave it away so it doesn't matter.
As for the thing, also with the xtreme gamepad it' a kernel issue i think, because retropie it's raspian based so it does not roll frequent kernel updates; on the other hand the easymsx never gave me trouble on recalbox, probably because of that.
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Hello there, a quick update: i've noticed actually that it is the "wrong" way to update: if i do that by quitting enulationstation and get the job done in terminl via
sudo apt update && upgradethere are some glitches in the trigger setting in the emulationstation input configuring screen, while if the kernel and drivers are updated via setup (the ncurses-like interface) everything works fine. Please don't hesitate to share other pics of you controllers!
Edit: sorry, i don't have the easyMSX anyomore, it's broken and gone :,(
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@niculinux Yes, I've had issues with one of my triggers on my xbox joystick to not register until I go build the xpad driver from source, then it works.
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I picked up one of these a month or two ago and finally tried it out on the Pi. Excellent controller!
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