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I want to replace my old GameSir G3s with a controller preferably under €70-75. Initially I wanted an european gamepad but the only 2 options (ready2gaming and snakebyte) was so non existent or questionable that I had to swallow my EU nationalism.

Gaming style:

  • Only use controllers where it's highly recommended
  • Preferred genre for controllers would be arcade racing and JRPGs mostly
  • Will only play on wireless (2.4ghz)

Preferences:

  • Either TMR or high quality HE sticks
  • Doesn't look boring (preferably it has some amounts of LED / RGB)
  • Xbox stick position layout (I want to try it out)
  • Linux compatibility (don't care about consΓΆles)
  • Doesn't have a shit QC (8bitdo's are apparently like that)
  • I have larger hands, so maybe not a small controller

Currently these are some controllers that seems to be in my range. I'm interested if you know about even better controllers.

  • GameSir Cyclone 2
  • GameSir Supernova
  • FlyDigi Direwolf 4?
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[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I just got a 8bitdo ultimate 2c they go for 30 bucks and I swear it is better than my Xbox gamepad, thy come in fun colors have extra triggers amazing hall effect sticks good face buttons. Bluetooth AND dongle. I can't stress this enough it is purple.

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah those purple Ultimate 2 colors are sooooo catchy! I actually bought a Cyclone 2 from the comments, but honestly it just feels like this: Big hands - Cyclone 2 Small / medium hands - 8bitdo

I have big hands and the ultimate 2c is perfectly fine

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Ah I failed to recognize the bigger hand requirement as a haver if baby hands I am super happy with ultimate 2c but if ur not the same seems like you made the right choice

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 1 points 28 minutes ago

Oh well I have just kinda made this conclusion whilst reading the comments in this post, but actually it seems that some big hand people feel that the ultimate 2 is still good for even big hand dudes.

[–] wizzim@infosec.pub 5 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I can confirm the ultimate 2C is awesome.

Did you manage to get extra buttons working? I thought no driver could handle those buttons (tried xpad and xone).

To get the extra buttons working on the ultimate 2c (on steam) turn on the controller while holding the B button

[–] 413j0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

With my ultimate 2 wireless I just put it in dinput by turning it on by holding b and everything works, including gyro and accelerometer and can bind anything with antimicrox

[–] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Mhm! With the wire of the 2.4 GHz it uses xinput and you can map stuff that is already on the controller, on Bluetooth mode it connects in dinput mode and the extra buttons become programmable and detected by games as "controller unknown" iwhen I need them I use Bluetooth when not the adapter

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

The pro2 and pro3 are awesome too, they are PlayStation style controllers.