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Old May 23rd, 2007   #45 (permalink)
shashClp
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Originally Posted by Cypherswipe View Post
They're well worth it. Trying to play an emu with a keyboard sucks beyond description, playing with a joystick (or more accurately, a gamepad) is almost like playing it on a real system. Gravis gamepad pro is a good choice, cheap yet extremely good. It's layout is similar to a PS controller (which also means it works great for SNES games). Propad6 is pretty good, cheaper, but fewer buttons and a kind of weird layout. It's essentially like a 6-button genesis/megadrive controller + shoulder buttons (but no start or mode buttons), but the shoulder buttons are actually duplicates of 2 of the six top buttons. The gamepad pro was $15 and the propad6 was $10 when I got them years ago, they should be even cheaper by now.
I personally have been playing emus with keyboard, and finished quite a lot of games like that, so it's quite of a personal choice. As I use the keyboard, and don't have a joystick, I won't add support for that, neither I'll spend a single pound on that, as cheap as they might be: I'm not going to use them, so I'm not going to spend my well earned money on that :P

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Originally Posted by RockmanForte View Post
I am confused. Isn't this thread about NeonDS ?
We are talking about general joystick support, so that applies too to NeonDS :P
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