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Ideal controller for Super Metroid on emulator?

Started by Foxhound3857, January 21, 2025, 11:31:01 PM

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Foxhound3857

Need one that has no input delay, as I'm trying to improve my game at Arcade and need a controller that won't handicap my play.

Ambureon

in my opinion, the gold standard would be the logitech f510, but it got discontinued a while ago. the f310 is a perfectly good replacement, and is still in production, with the only missing feature being it doesn't have rumble (which you wouldn't be needing for SNES games anyway). the f710 is also still in production and does have rumble, but it's wireless, which introduces significant input delay.

if you can find an f510 grab it, if not the f310 is perfectly solid.

Zhs2

#2
Hard agree with the F510. Wish I didn't bust mine. Personally I use an F710 for a private weekly Metroid romhacks stream (Super or GBATroids, whatever's available and fits my fancy) and for basically anything else I would need a controller for. I don't often see too little precision with my play using one, but I guess YMMV.

On a side note suggestion it could be worth looking into turning oldish or unused handhelds into portable SNES emulators - PSPs and 3DSes will fit the bill easily, a DS can potentially emulate SNES too with a flash card but the emulators for it aren't great or getting touched by this point. You know you won't be getting input lag with those. Failing that, there are markets out there for cheap handheld computers that look like Game Boys and run Linux or Android these days...

Foxhound3857

Quote from: Zhs2 on January 22, 2025, 12:37:54 PMHard agree with the F510. Wish I didn't bust mine. Personally I use an F710 for a private weekly Metroid romhacks stream (Super or GBATroids, whatever's available and fits my fancy) and for basically anything else I would need a controller for. I don't often see too little precision with my play using one, but I guess YMMV.

On a side note suggestion it could be worth looking into turning oldish or unused handhelds into portable SNES emulators - PSPs and 3DSes will fit the bill easily, a DS can potentially emulate SNES too with a flash card but the emulators for it aren't great or getting touched by this point. You know you won't be getting input lag with those. Failing that, there are markets out there for cheap handheld computers that look like Game Boys and run Linux or Android these days...

I was thinking about getting a flash cart so I can play rom hacks like Redesign on console. Don't know what that would run me though.

I'll look into a 310 the next time I order from Amazon. Wanted to get some dried fruit anyway.

FelixWright

#4
PS classic controller (sony's answer to nes classic/snes classic)
Dualshock 4 (DS4)
Dualshock 3 (DS3)
Dualshock 2 (DS2)
NSO SNES controller

The key is having a good dpad with good dpad placement.

Noxus


I use a gamecube controller, original hardware on a wii snes emulator. Highly recommended, if you can find a gc-pc adapter, or a pc gamecube usb one that's not junk.