Just a thread for anyone else out there who prefers the layout of a 6-button controller to the more dominant ABXY layout. What I wouldn’t give for a dual stick, dual trigger gamepad that also had six face buttons.
Never used one of these before so I don’t know how well they work in practice, but more buttons are always welcome as far as I’m concerned.
I have the one in the photo (an 8bitdo m30) and it’s pretty good for most games. What tends to be the stumbling point is how many buttons the game expects you to press simultaneously: pressing A + X + L is a lot easier than A + X + Z. As long as you’re not expected to mash though having the extra face buttons is just great.
I’d enjoy using the m30 a bit more if they fixed some of the problems, otherwise that dpad is among one of my favorites to use. The lack of pivot really kills the dpad for me since it’s so easy to depress all 4 buttons at the same time. Mine had another problem develop which made the dpad unusable since it kept sticking. If you enjoy a 6 button pad you might as well go for a fight stick since most controllers have some significant problems for me.
I’ve heard good things about the Victrix controller and the Octa (although the octa has some qc problems). The Raion would’ve been an amazing controller but it suffers a lot of the same problems the m30 has. The Fighting Commander is probably my favorite of the bunch.
The Sega Saturn controller was the best (2D) controller made, and I will die on this hill.
Although a suitable (more recent-ish) alternative was from Mad Katz of all companies, with their XB360 Street Fighter 4 pads.
My go-to “standard” gamepad is a Mad Catz, actually. A lot of their controllers are weird and wonky but some of them are absolutely legit.
