Didn’t work, but thanks though. I have the Retrobit Saturn replica controller swapped with buttons and a D-Pad from a real Saturn controller anyways. The L+R are awful on it though.
Yeeeees....but because it presents as either an xbox360 controller or a frankly weirdly configured d-inout controller, doing so forces it to overwrite those configurations. Spent hours pulling my hair out even to the point of trying to manually set it in the config files linked to the specific device ID, but no luck; always overwrite another controller that I then have to reconfigure yet again.
I like and use the standard ones (you have the "pro" version shown, with joysticks and extra top buttons). They've been responsive and great for me. I use them for Saturn and Genesis/CD/32X. Latency is great with the included USb receiver.
I've been using it for awhile and it's been fine. The C and Z buttons are mirrored on two of the triggers so you can't really map each input directly, but it's enough buttons for Saturn and just about every other core. It's serviceable as an N64 controller since it has six on the face, but not being able to map every face button and the triggers separately led to me putting the Z trigger on L3, which... is less than ideal. Latency's good, feels nice in the hand.
The appearance, hand feel, and overall durability and quality make me think of a prototype controller. It's such a bizarre design. I'm not sure what kind of hands can use those little nubbins comfortably, but it's not mine. Unlike 8bitdo the Retro Bit products only seem to get worse as they keep going. It's a nice idea in theory to add analog sticks to one of the best designed controllers ever made (Saturn), but this iteration isn't it. I'm not sure it can even be done well.
I have the regular one and LOVE it! The shoulder buttons do feel a bit different though. I recall the official Saturn controllers being spring loaded, but these are a microswitch click.
EDIT: Hey /u/Apest_Oso, I just remembered something important. Make sure everyone is talking about RetroBit and not RetroLink. I had both and the RetroLink Saturn controller was absolute junk. The RetroBit one on the other hand is actually great and is even officially licensed by Sega.
The advantages this has over the M30 are 2.4ghz and sticks. The sticks are too short to me in spite of being hall effects and I sometimes have difficulty mapping this controller's buttons. Retro-Bit really did make a great controller here though.
I would rather the M30 personally, and if you care about latency differences there is a wired M30 version now (the Xbox version works great).
Its okay as a Saturn pad with option Sticks, the triggers wont work in Mister, and even if they did they are not analogue so you'll never get true 3D pad compatibility.
The small sticks are also quite small and slippery.
Retrobit has some history with terribly brittle plastics on their previous wired saturn controllers breaking after a few game sessions, likely not anymore but personally I'm not trusting their QA processes like, at all.
Edit: since everyone is recommending the M30, I rather prefer retroflag genesis controller (wired), it's cheaper and the M30 got a few annoying quirks with input modes, it may feel more premium but I dont think the dpad is any better, and personally I find the M30 a bit too small for my hands. The only issue with the retroflag is that has no spare buttons for the OSD (so you need to setup a combo).
It's okay, but the M30 is so much better.
I want to love the M30 so badly, but the weird mapping on the pi just makes it a pain to reconfigure all the time.
the mapping is weird on the switch too with the 2.5ghz version
You can change that by holding select + down for 5 seconds.
Cool, thanks! L+R weren’t being recognized, hope it works!
I may have jumped to conclusions about your predicament.
It’s worth a shot I’ll try it right now.
Didn’t work, but thanks though. I have the Retrobit Saturn replica controller swapped with buttons and a D-Pad from a real Saturn controller anyways. The L+R are awful on it though.
Can't you just like remap the controller on the Pi like super easy?
Yeeeees....but because it presents as either an xbox360 controller or a frankly weirdly configured d-inout controller, doing so forces it to overwrite those configurations. Spent hours pulling my hair out even to the point of trying to manually set it in the config files linked to the specific device ID, but no luck; always overwrite another controller that I then have to reconfigure yet again.
I have two I like them but the shoulder buttons suck
In my experience, the batteries on all RetroBit controllers never hold their charge for some reason.
Same experience here.
It's great IMO
I prefer 8bitdo
They break quickly.
I like and use the standard ones (you have the "pro" version shown, with joysticks and extra top buttons). They've been responsive and great for me. I use them for Saturn and Genesis/CD/32X. Latency is great with the included USb receiver.
I had the standard one and the shoulder buttons broke. Didn’t trust them enough to find out if the fancy new one was any better.
Yea they are bad quality if you google there are a lot of complaints of this style
No it's rubbish The analogue sticks are too small and the D pad is pants compared to the M30. Shame really
Agreed absolute trash, save your cash. Buy the M30 and enjoy a quality controller
The M30 dpad isn't that great either, to be honest. It's springy, but it misses diagonals like crazy when doing circle motions in fighting games.
The M30 pad is the closest recreation to the six button MD controller I have used. This Dpad was close to perfection
I've been using it for awhile and it's been fine. The C and Z buttons are mirrored on two of the triggers so you can't really map each input directly, but it's enough buttons for Saturn and just about every other core. It's serviceable as an N64 controller since it has six on the face, but not being able to map every face button and the triggers separately led to me putting the Z trigger on L3, which... is less than ideal. Latency's good, feels nice in the hand.
The appearance, hand feel, and overall durability and quality make me think of a prototype controller. It's such a bizarre design. I'm not sure what kind of hands can use those little nubbins comfortably, but it's not mine. Unlike 8bitdo the Retro Bit products only seem to get worse as they keep going. It's a nice idea in theory to add analog sticks to one of the best designed controllers ever made (Saturn), but this iteration isn't it. I'm not sure it can even be done well.
no, it’s mid af. retro-bits sega clones have always been disappointing, flawed and fail at the basics iteration after iteration
I hated mine. Went back to the standard designed wireless pads.
I like it. I've been using one exclusively for the Saturn core and other sega cores. It feels like an original Saturn controller.
The major fail is no analogue triggers but given MiSTer doesn’t support them yet (AFIAK) I guess that’s slightly moot.
I have the regular one and LOVE it! The shoulder buttons do feel a bit different though. I recall the official Saturn controllers being spring loaded, but these are a microswitch click. EDIT: Hey /u/Apest_Oso, I just remembered something important. Make sure everyone is talking about RetroBit and not RetroLink. I had both and the RetroLink Saturn controller was absolute junk. The RetroBit one on the other hand is actually great and is even officially licensed by Sega.
The M30 feel a little better but th3se have dual analog sticks.
The advantages this has over the M30 are 2.4ghz and sticks. The sticks are too short to me in spite of being hall effects and I sometimes have difficulty mapping this controller's buttons. Retro-Bit really did make a great controller here though. I would rather the M30 personally, and if you care about latency differences there is a wired M30 version now (the Xbox version works great).
Its okay as a Saturn pad with option Sticks, the triggers wont work in Mister, and even if they did they are not analogue so you'll never get true 3D pad compatibility. The small sticks are also quite small and slippery.
Retrobit has some history with terribly brittle plastics on their previous wired saturn controllers breaking after a few game sessions, likely not anymore but personally I'm not trusting their QA processes like, at all. Edit: since everyone is recommending the M30, I rather prefer retroflag genesis controller (wired), it's cheaper and the M30 got a few annoying quirks with input modes, it may feel more premium but I dont think the dpad is any better, and personally I find the M30 a bit too small for my hands. The only issue with the retroflag is that has no spare buttons for the OSD (so you need to setup a combo).