MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Best PC Gamepad?

> What you’re asking for is impractical. Everyone learns sooner or later that six face
> buttons is too much to be trying to manipulate with a thumb. Sega learned that with
> the Saturn and switched to four buttons with the Dreamcast. Nintendo learned that
> with the N64 and switched to a right analog stick and four face buttons on the
> GameCube. Microsoft learned that with the Xbox and turned White/Black into LB/RB
> shoulder buttons.
>
> What you’re asking for can’t work well with XInput because it’s an inherently limited
> API. The Xbox Elite controller has a bunch of extra buttons on the back for your
> middle/ring fingers, but you can’t use them as independent buttons via XInput, only
> as aliases for other buttons. XInput supports ten application buttons total (A, B, X,
> Y, LB, RB, LSB, RSB, Start, Back), four 16-bit axes (LSX, LSY, RSX, RSY), and two
> 8-bit axes (LT, RT). Depending on the controller subtype, some axes may function as
> switches (LT/RT as buttons for arcade stick/pad, RSX/RSY as POV hat for flight
> stick), but by gaining switches you lose axes.
>
> (You can use the extra buttons on an Xbox Elite controller independently on Linux
> with SDL, but somehow I don’t think that’s what you’re looking for.)
>
> You’re thinking like a ten-year-old wanting to jam in every possible feature. The
> trouble is, when you do this, you end up with something overly complicated,
> expensive, and impractical to actually use.

Yeah actually not only is it practical but Retrobit is releasing one soon. Stay in your lane and stop being a patronizing weirdo. He's not "thinking like a ten year old." You're typing like an ignorant clown who isn't even aware of different grip techniques because you don't actually play video games yourself.

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Edited by sanwastick (01/15/23 10:04 PM)