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It's the 8BitDo Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller and it's very nice. I previously had some no name cheap rickety telescopic controller which did the job but this is a legitimately great feeling pad.

The buttons and dpad all feel excellent, the sticks are Hall Effect which means no drift and the triggers are analog. The shoulders and triggers feel really satisfying to press, especially after the ones on my old phone controller that were so flimsy they were downright nasty. It's got two programmable back buttons too in case you need those.

It seriously feels like a first party level controller with no compromises. Well, almost. First, there's no rumble which is the only thing keeping me from using this on my desktop more (which you can do just with a USB cable, no Bluetooth pairing required) Second, and this is a really minor thing, but due to the compact layout compared to a regular controller, I can sometimes feel my thumb brushing against the right analog stick when reaching down to press A.

It's also really inexpensive. It usually goes for a little over 40€ on AliExpress but I managed to get it for closer to 26 euros which isn't that much more than I paid for my old piece of junk. Thanks to this thing I've been emulating stuff on my phone way more again these past few weeks. It almost makes me want to pick up a full-size 8BitDo for my computer, which I hear easily rival or even surpass Xbox controllers in terms of quality these days

P.S oh yeah, no gyro either

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

playing games on your phone is very proletarian and I don't need to elaborate

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

It's all you'll be able to afford in a year or two elmofire

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have a similar dookickey from Gamesir

I've had trouble with the USB C connectors on controllers like this breaking, so I went with bluetooth this time and it works well with little latency. You can also set up 4 different devices at once, including PC, which is neat

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I wanted something with Bluetooth because I was afraid of the connector or port getting damaged.

That GameSir looks decent with a full ergonomic pad design instead of something more compact. I think these were almost double the price of the 8BitDo though