I keep breaking every joystick i have so i want buttons

  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
    6·
    1 年前

    Maybe the Steam controller, mapping the touch pads to joystick input, if that would reduce impact.
    Xbox’s Adaptive Controllers and Sony’s Leonardo both look really cool, if expensive.

    First-party Nintendo Switch controllers have all gone bad on me with their flawed joysticks, but the 8Bit-do pro controllers I’ve used have been great, joystick-wise, and work over Bluetooth for PC games on Linux.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    1 年前

    Get some arcade game buttons and build your own controller. Those buttons are tough, so you should have a much harder time breaking them. You can hook it all up to an Arduino Pro Micro and program it to appear as a USB HID device. There are also dedicated arcade game input boards if you don’t want to program anything.

    • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      1 年前

      Agreed, the DIY arcade stick / fighting game controllers community has the most robust hardware and its not expensive, either!

    • davefischer@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 年前

      I’ve bought about a half dozen of those dedicated boards. Very nice to be able to trivially attach switches & buttons to the computer.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 年前

    Sure. If you have a custom keyboard that runs QMK, VIA, or similar open-source firmware, “mouse keys” are a standard feature. If you don’t want a full keyboard, you might want the kind of device sold as a “macropad”.

    Of course, there is some learning and configuration involved!