Has anyone got the 8bitdo Ultimate controller? How loud are the buttons?
I have the Pro but the loud clicky sound of the face buttons makes me feel uncomfortable when Mrs. Chopemon is quietly reading in the same room. They’re really loud!
I’d recommend getting an oem xbox series controller over the 8bitdo ultimate, or taking a look at the kingkong controller if you need something for switch specifically.
I was so pleased with my acquirement of xbox elite 2 and xbox series s controllers, that I now use them with adapters and such to play Smash Bros. for every console from N64, Melee, and SSB Ultimate.
I’m using this with a Retroid rather than a Switch but maybe I should go for a Switch controller, that ones pretty nice.
I have some Xbox Series controllers but again, I find the buttons to be really loud. There’s a real clack to them which is fine for me with my headphones on but we have a very quiet house which makes me feel like it is a disturbance. They feel nice to hold though.
switch pro controllers are pretty cheap feeling imo, here’s why I have one that cost $80:
tears of the kingdom edition, looks cool
HD rumble, compatible with switch games
gyro controls, compatible with switch games and PC switch emulators, 3ds emulators, etc.
non-analog triggers, digital triggers, great for a lot of games, analog triggers kind of bother me most of the time since I’m not playing shooters or racers often, just RPGs and stuff
so yeah I don’t really recommend a switch pro controller unless you need one to play switch games. retroid is a portable emulation device right? for 2d/light 3d I’d use 8bitdo or the saturn pro. for full 3d like n64 or playstation, gamecube I’d just use an OEM xbox controller, for the best handfeel. but a kingkong or 8bitdo ultimate would be fine if you’re not a freak like me who requires OEM build quality and handfeel.
If anyone cares about this, I just got the Bluetooth and 2.4ghz 8bitdo Ultimate to test the volume of the buttons.
I can confirm that all of the Ultimate buttons are much quieter than the Pro’s buttons.
I am so happy. This had been driving me crazy (I’m having a very bad mental health period and my painful OCD is flaring up over all sorts of things) and I’m glad to finally have a quieter controller.
There was some weirdness around the whole thing though. I am using this on a Retroid Pocket 3+ which is an Android device. 8bitdo lists the Ultimate Bluetooth as working on Android but multiple people on Resetera and Reddit claim that theirs didn’t work on Android and the Retro Game Corps YouTube channel showed a work around to get it to work. On the flip side, people replied to those Reddit posts claiming that theirs worked without any trouble. I think some of this probably comes down to the way that 8bitdo have applied the Ultimate to a bunch of different controllers and you need to pick and choose between the Bluetooth and 2.4ghz or both versions.
I’m happy to report that mine connected and worked flawlessly without any trouble.
It is a great feeling controller. I like the textured finish on the plastic and the triggers have a good amount of resistance. The buttons are a lot quieter but aren’t as quiet as a DualSense.
I tried using a DualSense on the Retroid before ordering the Ultimate. It paired fine but a number of buttons aren’t recognised and some map to the same function, e.g. X and O both acted as confirm. That’s fine in an emulator as I could presumably remap them so long as there isn’t a more core functionality mismatch, but it made the Retroid OS and Daijisho a pain to navigate.
Anyway, thank you for reading the conclusion to my latest obsession.
Took a chance and bought a pair of Bin Bok Doy Oky slim joy pads from Ali Express for $20. Currently charging on my computer and fingers crossed they’ll work on PC with Steam and emulators. They are very light and a little awkward to hold independent of a switch due to the back of it jutting out. I really want to believe in binbok! I’ll report back here after trying it out.
I wanted a fight stick for my ps3 that I just got to play some fighting games and shooters, and I found the Hori Fighting Stick Mini for PS3/PS4 on Goodwill’s website for $20 + $10 shipping.
The stick feels a bit tight in a weird way, and the buttons are pretty awful compared to pretty much any other fighting stick. There’s a mushy quality… It feels like it’s worth $30, definitely not any kind of amazing deal. But nice to have, I think, from time to time.
I really despise that game controllers are not universal across computers and consoles. I’d love to just have one stick that worked for all of them without any special adapter dinguses.
Here’s a photo of my messy desk for a size comparison, it’s a pretty small stick:
we’re getting so close. there’s the octo stick in development. there’s so many adapters. I have two arcade sticks, one for playstation 1 (that doesn’t work with a PS2-USB adapter because it’s a non-analog controller) and the egrett 2 mini arcade stick (because it can switch from square gate to a 4-way restrictor gate for pac-man and stuff!)
and yeah, I don’t wanna collect any more sticks. I just want one stick to work on all consoles, occasionally switch the gate out for different games. I live in a van, I aint got space for all these!
All I want in life is the ps5 form with the xbox one dpad. I’m a big crybaby when it comes to controllers.
Also with all the trackball talk. I tried to make a trackball out of a 5 inch duckpin bowling ball this year but failed. I couldn’t mount the sensor properly to give mouse movement the precise enough orientation and had trouble mounting the optical sensor to give reliable contact with the ball. I’m going to try again but have given up from discouragement for now. The red light did give the ball a cool glow in dim light
any suggestions for what yall might think is a good fightpad? i’ve been looking for a nice big D-pad for my pc fighting games and i just don’t know much about fightpads and their quality
horii’s latest one is nice but the built quality is supposedly dogshit so i stopped using it altogether… especially considering my firsg uni had sticky buttons lol. supposedly the razer one is legit but 1.d-pad is weird 2.some models don’t have a central pivot on their d-pads.
really isn’t a lot of options these days! ive heard good thingd about the previous fighting commander but i don’t like that kind of dpad
idk exactly what a fightpad is or isn’t but I bought this hori fighting commander on eBay for about sixty american dollars, and the dpad is excellent and the buttons feel great. I love it!
weirdly enough, I had the same model for Switch until traded it in, but the dpad was awful and didn’t register every input. idk if I had a faulty one or the quality dipped
idk if the ps3/ps4 version is worth sixty bucks but for me it is, as I want it for shmups on the ps3/ps4/pc
Third/fourth shoulder buttons, but no paddles? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D736BCNM?th=1
Who is this for? Does this seem good to anyone here? Maybe just an experiment?
Not hating just asking sincerely.
Also I feel like they’d be even better if they were just a little more to the center, like the ZL/ZR buttons on the NSO SNES controller.
I like the visual design of it and I’m a fan of 8bitdo’s controllers, but yeah, having tried a handful of emulation handhelds that do a similar “stacked shoulder button” thing, that’s a choice that has never worked for me
I assume you’ve tried at least one of these already but I really like both the DualShock 4 and the Series X controller when I play on pad. Don’t think it gets better than those, myself! (I’ve had a pretty awful experience with the dedicated fightpads by Hori and PowerA.)
As six-face-button controllers go, I think Retro-Bit’s wireless Saturn controller is easily the best, but I find the actuation force on those buttons way too high for fighting games, and the small size of the buttons on the top row isn’t ideal for a claw grip.
I learned from Death_Strandicoot’s earlier post that SCUF has the patent on back paddles. This explains one reason why the Sony and MS controllers with back paddles cost so much and why other controllers don’t have them.
