I keep breaking every joystick i have so i want buttons

  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
    6·
    10 months ago

    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·
    10 months ago

    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·
      10 months ago

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

    • davefischer@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      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·
    10 months ago

    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!