Continuing the discussion from methods of input (Part 2) - #2055 by MintyJuffowup.
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Does anyone know of a Wii remote with clicky buttons?
My wife wants to play Rhythm Heaven on Wii but she can’t tolerate the mushiness of the Wii remote.
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I bought the little maker board the guy who whipped Claude into doing openpuck
it just work
you load the firmware and it work and Steam sees it as a puck in Steamcon mode and I’ve been using my Steam Controller 2 with my Switch 2 without issue
if you somehow have a Steam Controller Again and you have 8 dollars, I would go buy that board off Amazon and do stupid(er) things with your 100 dollar gamepad
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I can’t think of any well-liked 3rd party wii brands but this teardown suggests that in terms of button responsiveness basically any generic one could work better Clash of the Controllers: Wiimote vs. Fake Wiimote - Fictiv you could get a dongle to use a different controller entirely which it seems like people have done like DIY style with arduino bits or just bought, or softmod it and use a Dualshock/i think gamecube or usb controller. Or whatever with dolphin. Not sure if a dongle would add significant latency but i assume wii rhythm heaven has a bigger timing window already.
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bsp y04 seems weird & fun. works on pses 3&4 out of box. only pad i can think of aside from og saturn with mouse switch shoulders ?
someone somewhere in the last thread said the knockoff saturn pads were getting tiresome and why did they all have to have the dinky top 3 buttons anyway, so. monkey’s paw later and we’ve got this and the retro fighters d6. which is actually a pretty good pad ? of all things to start from, they certainly could have done worse than the ascii pad ft.
microswitch dpads are… novel !
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if you’re in the uk and a topre enjoyer, the keyboard company are selling realforce stuff for the first time in years:
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I’m going to be That Guy and say polling rates above 2000 are getting into placebo level, you need to plug it into a specific USB port on your motherboard and also 4k and 8k polling rates can be pretty taxing on your CPU
I have a mouse that can do stupid polling rates and a 7800X3D and maxing the polling rate out can cause framedrops in some games
more to the point, a mouse is a physical object not bound to digital input or a spectrum or area and with which you can manhandle like a maniac and actually achieve 8000 Hz worth of movement. you cannot generate 8000 Hz of controller input with sticks and buttons unless the pad is sending a shitload of redundant signals to make sure your inputs are getting there as soon as possible and I have doubts the game is polling pad input that much if it’s pad-forward or pad-only
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this is so stupid
Unless you can watch youtube on that screen, then it’s genius
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Indeed
I’m surprised there hasn’t been one of these yet where you can load it up with emulators to play on the screen.
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Don’t let us down, Genki Manta OS (that viewing angle though)
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Seems kinda neat 
I guess emulators on iPhone work pretty well these days?
old dogs, new tricks
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Oh it turns out it’s actually good??
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Love to think about getting new controllers or fightsticks or modding them but also never playing games
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Probably a really crap stick but kind of a cute idea. It’s ¥7500 though so not a justifiable impulse purchase.
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