Best Joystick For Retropie

[cheekee]

I am newer to the Raspberry Pi scene, although wanting one for years. I picked one up and installed Retropie for it, after playing on my usb Snes controller I decided that it would be really fun to get a joystick! My question is which one is the best? Which one has enough buttons for all the emulators? Which one is easiest to set up? Thanks In Advance!

[krux02]

retroarch makes it incredibly hard to configure anything that is not like a Play Station 2 controller (one hat, two analog sticks with one button each, 4 shoulder buttons, 4 thumb buttons, Start Select. Anything more than that, like 6 thumb buttons like sega consoles, are at it’s best useless.

[proxycell]

@krux02 – I’m not so sure about that… I’m testing my RetroPies these days using nothing but SNES-style USB controllers by Tomee.

@cheekee – I would say that that any controller with a total of 6 “game” buttons, a start, select and at least one d-pad should be fine. So yeah… any SNES-style controller lol…

I have had good experiences with the Xbox 360 (wired) controller as well but that requires the installation of another driver.

[cheekee]

Thanks guys!

How about this thing, looks pretty good:http://www.amazon.com/Mayflash-Universal-Arcade-Fighting-Playstation-3/dp/B0015PHMFU/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1416197245&sr=1-1&keywords=usb+arcade+joystick&pebp=1416197247812

[proxycell]

@cheekee – that looks good to me personally. have you run the “Register RetroArch Controller” before?

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