I keep breaking every joystick i have so i want buttons
Johanno ( @Johanno@feddit.de ) 6•10 months agoYou have to give us more information.
Steam?
Controller?
What Buttons?
Nato Boram ( @NatoBoram@lemm.ee ) English6•10 months agoSteam Controller! Excellent idea!
I use the xbox adaptive controller
cmnybo ( @cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ) English5•10 months agoGet 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 ( @Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•10 months agoAgreed, the DIY arcade stick / fighting game controllers community has the most robust hardware and its not expensive, either!
davefischer ( @davefischer@beehaw.org ) English2•10 months agoI’ve bought about a half dozen of those dedicated boards. Very nice to be able to trivially attach switches & buttons to the computer.
caseyweederman ( @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ) 4•10 months agoMaybe 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.
I have the xbox adaptive controller
caseyweederman ( @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ) 1•10 months agoHow is it? I’ve read complaints about required parts coming separately, and at additional costs. Are there any third-party add-ons or customizations that are compatible?
Edit: looks like it’s a very open system: https://learn.adafruit.com/diy-adaptive-game-controllers/interfacing-buttons-and-switches
but I don’t know where to begin looking for vendors. Might be a custom job.
Looking further, Logitech has a kit for extending the XAC but it doesn’t include any joysticks.https://warfighterengaged.org/shop is great. Any usb joystick works
caseyweederman ( @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months agoOh, that’s fantastic.
I have to say, I assumed Xbox would use some proprietary connector nonsense but I’m impressed that they went with an extensible model.Yeah. I asked warfighter to make me buttons
LinuxSBC ( @LinuxSBC@lemm.ee ) 3•10 months agoMaybe try input-remapper.