MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Best PC Gamepad?

If you need to rest the gamepad on your leg and use your fingers, that’s pretty damn impractical. You also lose access to the right shoulder buttons and/or trigger buttons and right thumb stick if present. You have to pick the controller up and grab it to use them. Completely changing hand position in the middle of a game isn’t going to be fun.

I already knew about the Retro-Bit Analog Saturn Pad. It doesn’t meed his requirements because the triggers are digital only (see this review – “The L2 & R2 triggers even have about 2mm to 3mm of travel before engaging in a satisfying click, however, it’s this travel that seems like a real missed opportunity, considering that these triggers are digital only (not analog)”). It also has smaller thumbsticks than most controllers, which won’t help with precision.

Also, I don’t trust Retro-Bit when it comes to firmware. Their existing Saturn Pad reports completely invalid capabilities when used in XInput mode, which MAME needs to work around.

A controller that tries to do everything is going to end up like a Swiss Army Knife. It’s handy to carry with you when you don’t know which tool you’ll need and you can’t carry a whole toolbox, but it’s nowhere near as good as a single-purpose tool for any of the tasks.