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PC gamepad with good d-pad

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Emultra

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I need a PC gamepad with a kickass d-pad that suits platformers. My current one is Logitech Dual Action which is good in most ways (I like the double L/R buttons etc) but it has one annoying aspect.

The degrees spanned by left/right/up/down are too small and consequently, the diagonal directions cover too many degrees, which in many older games causes the slightest veer off perfectly and going just a bit off perfectly west/east/north/south to activate the wrong direction, causing my 8 or 16 bit char to head the wrong way. Or in other games I'll press up or whatever when I don't intend to, which in some cases makes things happen that shouldn't.

Some older games only have 4 directions and do not recognize diagonal ones. That means I constantly get stuck unless I always hit almost perfectly 90 degrees, which I don't cause I'm not using the keyboard arrows.

So what's the gamepad with the best d-pad? I still need the L/R buttons and so on.
 
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I use a SNES controller converted to USB, the D pad rocks, i use it to play Genesis and NES/SNES/GBA roms. A PS3 controller works well too.
 
PS3 controller is cake, plug it in install the drivers and away you go. It has a USB mini port already, its how the PS3 charges it.

The SNES controller i bought like that from http://www.retrousb.com/

You can also just buy the SNES to USB adaptor if you already have the controller.
 
Rifterut said:
PS3 controller is cake, plug it in install the drivers and away you go. It has a USB mini port already, its how the PS3 charges it.
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I would double check on this if you have a 64-bit OS. When I tried the PS3 drivers there was no support.
 
I use WinXP. Also I'm in Sweden, are there PAL-specific PS3 controllers and if so, will they still work?
 
Yeah i have not made the jump to 64bit yet, PS3 controller works fine on 32bit Vista though. I dont think the controllers care what region you are in either.
 
A MadCatz USB controller.
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If you look closely you see they have a proper 4 way game pad. MUCH nicer for those NES and SNES games that required fancy precision work to execute moves and such.
 
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