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Gamepads for PC?
EggPuppet
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A few years ago, wired 360 controllers were really the best choice as PC gamepads go. The D-pad sucked, though, and mine's starting to break, so I thought I'd ask: Are 360 pads still the best choice? Are there any available with improved D-pads? Are there any really good offerings from third parties these days?
For better or worse, it seems like the 360 pad has a sort of monopoly on in-game support since so many multiplatform titles were built around it in the first place. Trying to do dragon punches with it can be real frustrating, though.
For better or worse, it seems like the 360 pad has a sort of monopoly on in-game support since so many multiplatform titles were built around it in the first place. Trying to do dragon punches with it can be real frustrating, though.
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Logitech's pads are pretty OK I suppose.
For fighting games it's probably best to accept you're just gonna need to get an arcade stick or at least one of those specialized SF4 pads with the bigass dpad that MadCatz makes. But I lack the patience/discipline to do more than mess around with fighting games myself, I'm just parroting what I perceive the "community's" consensus to be.
Well if you're playing a lot of fighting games, you might just want to go with the full-on arcade stick. Then maybe a regular cheapo wired 360 pad (mine is Gamestop branded and I got it for $25) for generic other games where d-pad support isn't as important.
There's also the new one with the improved d-pad, but then you have to buy the controller AND find a wireless receiver somewhere. Unless they sell the new ones in a bundle pack, which I'm not sure about. And that'd probably be pretty pricey.
It actually works quite well for any game out there that has generic gamepad support.
Unfortunately there are a few random games that seem to be pretty freaking picky about what it accepts. I hear the 360 controller is quite good for PC gaming but I just can't bring myself to buy a wired one when I already have 2 wireless ones and the whole way the wireless adapter for the PC works is totally fucked up and causes all sorts of headaches with the 360.
Luckily everything supports xpadder so the few games that won't just accept my PS2 controller by default, I just create a profile for it.
Yeah, for a really serious fighting game enthusiast, that's the only way to go, but I have limited space and am hoping to find something that's decently multipurpose.
Those work on PC?
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Although if the lower setting will at least handle cardinal direction movement crisply and reliably that would be an improvement. Wasting your turbo when you mean to use a spikestrip in Hot Pursuit is quite a bitch.
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Yeah, they're built to Microsoft standards so it recognizes it as a regular 360 controller -- supported games are automatically mapped and the button prompts work perfectly. The only things that are different are the back/start buttons are shaped differently and in a little different location, the bumpers are a little more "clicky", and when you plug it in it says it's a TSZ360 pad or something instead of Xbox 360 Controller. Otherwise it's exactly the same.
Those aren't as common anymore. A wireless controller will require a wireless receiver--most of the ones you'll find online are not genuine Microsoft wireless receivers (though they may still work). You can still find a white Xbox 360 wireless controller bundled with a wireless receiver on eBay and elsewhere.
Takes 5 minutes to download the drivers in a google search.
Has a good D-Pad.
Wired (you can connect it with the USB "charging" cable; no bluetooth needed).
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Mine worked for four years before I had to replace it. I didn't mind, since I got another controller with it (which I needed).
Do you still have to run unsigned drivers on a 64 bit system?
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A lot of games that support the 360 controller have problems with other pads. The emulator fixes most if not all of those issues.
You just have to be prepared for it to change all of the buttons to the names of the 360 ones. But that's not a terrible problem to have.
MotionJoy Version 0.6.0001 is signed. I'm running win 7 x64 with it and did not have to circumvent the driver signing to get it to work.
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This is pretty much spot on my setup.
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This. Also, the person who mentioned x360 emulation from these drivers. I can confirm that both of these things are true and work smoothly. Most games think my ps3 controller is an x360 controller and work perfectly.
Took very little effort to set up, also.