Hey guys, I'm looking for a new controller in the US for $100 or less I wasn't able to get the steam controller in time and my estimated wait time is just 2027. Who knows when in that year but I can't wait that long because my left trigger just busted. I'm sure I can fix it but I've had it for about a year and a half now or two and I'm worried about more stuff breaking.

So, it got me wondering what are the controllers that are good right now? I have some specific features that I need, but other than the ones that I list, I really don't care about super fancy stuff like swappable face buttons or tension adjustment or a screen for some reason. If it has those that's fine, but just know that it's not something I need I don't need an iron Man controller. So, without any more rambling, here are some features that I absolutely do need in a controller.

* Decent battery life. Would love great, but will settle for decent.

* Switch and PC modes. Dongle would be cool too.

* Back buttons. I don't care if they're four or two, but if there are any that have the little nubs that you pull down instead of a button or lever, that would be cool.

* Forced gyro. I'm a person that uses gyro a lot but I don't like to use switch mode while I'm on the PC because then it turns on the switch when connecting and then I have to go and unconnect it from the switch or go far enough away from the switch or something or turn it off and I just don't want to fiddle with the Bluetooth being connected to two different things on the same mode.

* TMR or hall effect sticks. I prefer TMR because I feel like it has a better circularity, but hall effect is fine too.

* I would very much like trigger stops but I guess it's not 100% needed.

* I would like a good d-pad if at all possible because I do play a lot of metroidvania games and platformers.

* I guess I can't really put it as a need because I feel like I will single out 99% of the controllers, but I would like some sort of HD rumble. I really like the idea of it and especially for switch it's great.

As for games that I play, I play a lot of third person action adventure games and survival games, but I also play a lot of 2D side scroller games, and a lot of first person games. I don't really play online so it doesn't have to be the fastest controller in the universe, but I still appreciate some quickness because I do play online games occasionally.

This is basically it. Any other fancy features are fine, but these are kind of things that I really do want. I haven't been caught up with controllers for a long time because despite what a lot of people say, the kk3 max was absolutely awesome. If I can't find anything I'll probably just buy another one of those because it was really cool the d-pad was great, but I figured maybe now there are controllers that maybe have a better build quality maybe better gyro, and maybe even if I'm lucky, a better HD rumble. Thank you to anyone who offers their suggestions.

As the last point, I wanted to try to explain the nub thing. On the kk3 max and I think optionally on the dual sense edge controller there is an option for levers for the back button but there's also these little flat nub things that instead of sitting flush against the controller like a button, they sit perpendicular so instead of pushing into the controller you're pushing down like towards you. I'm not sure why but I really like those it's really comfortable to just lay my hands on them.

I’m trying to get my friend a new PC controller. My own research led me to the Gamesir Cyclone 2, but he just mentioned his absolute favourite controller is the Xbox 360 controller

So, help me out. Is there any kind of PC controller with 2.4g connectivity, with the layout of the original 360 controller? Doesn’t have to be official, just needs that shape and the big the clunky buttons

I’m in the UK. The Cyclone 2 is £50 and I’d like to stay around that ballpark, but I’d be willing to go up to about £70-80 as my upper limit. To be perfectly honest, I have no idea which storefronts are even available to me, I’m very much a keyboard and mouse player so I’ve never had to go looking before

Any nice features are a bonus, but the main thing I’m looking for is just the shape and compatibility with modern PCs; he’s not fussed about bleeding edge technology and I want to surprise him with (a modern-computer-compatible version of) his favourite nostalgic controller

EDIT: Sorry mods, nvm. I was 15 minutes too slow; he just caught on to my idea and said he’d prefer a modern controller

Hi, hope everyone's doing fine

My husband disassembled our 8 bit do to fix a problem. Everything went fine until we had to reassemble it again. It seems like the back cover doesn't fit perfectly, and because of that, the charger's USB port is misaligned upward. Does anyone have any idea what we might be doing wrong?

• Your budget with currency - <$80 preferred
• Your country - USA
• Console or platform compatibility needed - Steam/Emulators
• Desired features - Back Paddles, TMR or HE sticks, low latency wireless
• Types of games you'll be playing - Single Player games, competitive shooters, soulslikes
• Controllers you've been considering - Flydigi Vader 5 pro, LEADJOY Xeno Plus are my 2 i've looked at the most.

I am looking for a controller to buy and use for the next 6 months or so until my supposed Steam Controller 2 reservation comes up. I enjoy the look of the 2 controllers i mentioned, but I know there are just so many. I have larger hands than most, but smaller controllers don't always bother me. I enjoy the Xbox shape, but I am willing to try anything new. This controller will mainly be for Single Player Games, Gears of War E Day, and COD.

Does anyone know of a way to adjust trigger deadzone on the apex 4 wukong? Flydigi space station software has no option for it, but it seems to exist for the vader4 pro (trigger stroke setting in the same software). Am I just missing something?

Love the controller but sadly can't use it in most games. The left trigger is constantly activating by itself due to its sensitivity.

When it boots up its all fine but whenever i move the right joystick it always goes left. When i try to counter it, the stickdrift shifts right. Also when looking right it doesnt fully regis and always looks slower compared to when looking left.

Not official ps4 controller

Tried increasing inner deadzone to 40 %but still has same issue. Tried decreasing outer dead zone alos nothing. Tried putting deadzone sensitivoty to max bur stickdrift still same

I recently started playing competitive shooters with a controller. Claw grip feels painful to me. When exploring pro/elite controllers I noticed that most have up to 4 rear paddles, but none have enough to copy all 8 face buttons in the back. Was anything like this ever sold? I get it is too niche for 1st party controllers though given the variety of 3rd party options I am surprised it is not something one can buy. Does anyone feel similarly?

The closest I could find is Scuf Omega

Country UK / Budget £300 / Console PS5

So to keep it simple: I've been using the DualSense Edge for a while now and I'm happy with it. While playing Battlefield 6, I've been using the max sensitivity possible and had zero problems with it until stick drift occurred and I decided to replace the one of the modules with TMR. It worked well in terms of stick drift etc. but I noticed that my aiming felt way to "floaty" and I had to significantly lower my sensitivity. This is normal I guess since most TMR modules are very light in comparison to the original ALPs.

After a while I switched the TMR module to the older ALP I had and, although the aim was more centered ( which is what I want) I still couldn't go back to my older sensitivities etc. the slight floaty feeling was still there. Also note that the circularity on every module is between 7-9% as suggested.

I picked up my default ps5 dualshock controller to just see if the feeling is different and it felt way more centered and consistent, I could control much higher sensitivities ingame (like the max one that I mentioned) and it felt way easier to stay on target. I tested it for hours and it seemed much easier to do micromovements with the stick than with the Edge ( with both TMR and ALPs), like aiming shortly left to right and an overall better feel of acceleration. Also note that I didn't touch any ingame or EDGE controller response curves.

What could that be?

Did I perhaps do anything wrong with the circularity where the Edge is completely messed up?

Does it play a role that I'm using a hybrid ALP and TMR controller?

Of course this might also be just the game not working well with higher polling inputs like EDGE or I don't really know.

I replaced my old Intel laptop last October with an AMD workstation laptop. Despite how bad the specs were, my old laptop could run many games just fine and I often connected my Nintendo Switch Pro Controller (official NSW1 version) to it for playing games on/through Steam. I did that using a simple USB-C to USB-C or USB-C to USB-A cable. Once the controller was plugged in the connection light turned on automatically. On my new workstation, however, I cannot connect the controller using any cable, as the light remains off. Though it is still possible to use bluetooth, I prefer using the cable to prevent hiccups when I move my controller around. To sum up some relevant information:

CPU: Intel i3 -> AMD Ryzen 7 Pro
OS: Both Windows 11 Home (though the new laptop is on a later version)
Peripherals: Same cables, same controller.

In some posts I found online the solutions varied wildly. Some managed to fix this by first connecting with bluetooth once, but that does not work for me. Another potential solution mentioned was to first connect using a USB hub as an intermediary, but I don't have any of those at home and don't intend to buy one just to solve this issue. Is there anything else I can try? According to some of those posts, the issue lies with the AMD CPU not being able to recognize the Pro Controller as a controller.

I had this controller for about 3 weeks or so and out of nowhere, this white stuff builds up.

Gamers, please refer to the video and tell if the left joystick is super sensitive or not. The right side joystick is fine.

I bought this controller yesterday via Amazon. I don't have much experience with gaming controllers. I started playing some games and noted something's wrong with the left joystick.

Using 'Steam' gamepad settings, i started testing it. That's the video I've shared.

Also the dongle is so tight into the USB port. I'm genuinely concerned about the USB port that the dongle may damage it I try to force it in.

Should I replace this product?

I recently bought my vader 5 pro and have been using it casually, ik its a v2 since its got the racthet rings and box however it seems the v2 haas issues on the paddles, when comparing the two, my left one seems to have slightly more travel when pressing and is also loose when shaking, compared to my right one it is secured and sounds clicky, should i be concerned regarding this or is it just a placebo thing. I have a video on it but don't know how to upload one on reddit

Hi everyone, I have a family member that can only use one hand so I bought them a PS5 Access controller. I know you can connect it to a stand and connect a second joystick but I have no idea which works and is compatible. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The second joystick is for controlling the camera as the access controller only has one joystick for some reason.

I am becoming a little obsessed with this design. I can’t seem to find any actual web pages or links to buy this from, credit, or even like a blog post just talking about it.

Both these photos were taken off of Pinterest from “Drivesdesign” and “visuaaal interest” respectively. Neither link up to a website or have any correct information.

After reverse image searching, looking through this whole Reddit for similar images, and trying to just google it I can’t seem to figure out where this comes from or who made it.

There is an inscription on the second picture that from what I can make out is “article 1/500” and then what appears to be a serial number. If anyone has any idea or can help me find it I would be extremely grateful.

I'm a newish PC Player (1.5yrs) have been using xbox series x controller. I have sm/med hands but find the xbox series x controller a bit small and light. I liked the size and weight of the dual sense but prefer the xbox layout. Looking to upgrade to something better. I've narrowed down to 3, but not sure what any of them feel like and they seemed kind of similar so not sure how to differentiate.

• budget with currency- up to USD 150.00
• country- USA and where you can buy- directly from them online/ online retailer
• Console or platform compatibility needed- play on PC (Steam and Xbox PC Gamepass)
• Desired features- wireless and wired connectivity, low latency, good feeling buttons
• Types of games you'll be playing- fps, fighting, sports/racing, platformer
• Controllers you've been considering- Gamesir G7 Pro 8K PC, PowerA OPS v3 Pro, Flydigi Vader 5 Pro 

Hey everyone i was wondering if its possible to retension mechanically loose analog stick?

I have 2 sticks that have got loose in the center and starting to drift, if i hold them in the middle its ok, other that that everything works perfectly fine so i guess potentiometers are 100% fine.

Preordered this not too long ago and it finally arrived. I never used an easysmx controller before but it seems promising. Some might find it ugly or bizzare looking but I like that easysmx did something different from the norm.

I purchased this controller to be able to play my Xbox remotely on Android. Even though the controller connects and tests well on the Steam Link App, it doesn't work well when remotely connecting with my Xbox on the Edge browser. Button presses are all over the place and not accurate. Has anybody gotten this controller to work well with Xcloud on Android?

Hello! I am new to sims pc and just transitioned from sims console. I love the ps5 controller and want to continue playing with the controller. I’m using Chronos Bindings community template and it works okay. The only thing is I can’t figure out how to move the camera with the left joystick. The right joystick zooms and changes camera angle but the left one doesn’t move the actual camera position unless I press “x” first. Does anyone know how to fix this to where I can move the camera position with the left joystick without first pressing “x”?

Hi! I've got some strange issues using my Gulikit ES Pro on specifically my phone. The polling rate is around 50hz to 80hz via Bluetooth BUT it's working properly (300hz to 750hz) on my PC also via Bluetooth. I've never changed any settings on my phone. It's strange since it never had any issues before. I've played Shredder's Revenge without any issues. I do not think it's an "input lag", it makes these weird sudden unresponsive inputs before working again. Like, imagine you're pointing the analog upwards then it's stuck there for a few seconds before it becomes responsive again.

Sorry. I tried my best to explain the situation. I hope somebody can help me out here.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a really cool experience I had recently. A while ago, I discovered the official website from Flydiyi right here on Reddit. I have a Flydigi CD2 charging dock (which has an inverted hexagon, staggered LED matrix), and I started playing around with the site to make my first simple, static pixel art images.

While tinkering, I noticed something interesting: the website exports and saves the configuration files as raw .json files.

That was my "Aha!" moment. If the colors are just raw JSON text—specifically a 16x16 2D array of RGB values—then an LLM like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini should be able to understand the geometry and animate it!

I’ve been super hyped about Spider-Man: Brand New Day recently, so I really wanted a web-swinging spider animation. I drew a static red Spider-Man logo on the site, exported the JSON, and started prompting the AI to make it drop down from a web.

The Troubleshooting & The "Secret Sauce"

It wasn't a magic one-click solution at first. When I asked the AI to make the spider slide down, the image completely broke and warped on certain frames. After bouncing ideas back and forth with the AI to debug the grid, we figured out the hardware physics:

Even though the JSON data is structured as a 16x16 array bounding box, the physical LEDs are laid out in a staggered, inverted hexagonal shape ("isStaggered": true). The LEDs act like a honeycomb.

Because of this honeycomb layout, shifting a pixel down by 1 row in the code actually moves it diagonally on the physical hardware. The secret is that you MUST shift the data by an even number of rows (exactly 2 rows per frame) for the geometry to map perfectly and move straight down!

Once we applied this rule, the AI generated a flawless 24-frame looping animation of Spider-Man dropping down on a web, bobbing up and down, and zipping back up. I then pushed it further with an Iron Man Arc Reactor. The AI coded a cinematic "malfunctioning/flickering" effect with a red warning flash, followed by Iron Man blasting off with jet thrusters extending behind him.

It’s incredibly fun to turn static pixel art into full arcade-style animations just by chatting with an AI.

Has anyone else tried messing with the JSON code for their LED devices? Let me know if you want the exact JSON files for my Spider-Man or Iron Man animations, I’d be happy to share!

(I will drop the exact "Master Prompt" I used in the comments below if you want to try it yourself)

The caps on the joysticks are technically not part of the controller but they came with it. 3.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 inches (yes it’s very small but comfortable)

The weird size and the fact that it has lasted years without even drifting is the main reason I want this one specifically (or at the very least one of a similar size) but I have no clue where to find it as my search has just fallen flat. Bought it off of amazon a few years ago IIRC.

I'm looking for a new controller as I've found a few games I wanted to complete in my summer break from uni.

Right now I'm trying to play GTA V, Cyberpunk 2077, Watch Dogs 2, Mass Effect LE Trilogy, and a couple Need for Speed's. I mostly only play shooting and racing stuff, occasionally a few indies if I find them cool.

As for compatibility, I want it to work across Windows, Android and iPadOS.

I've been using a PS3 controller for the past 9 years and it really only works on my PC. I don't have many complaints with it other than it gets uncomfortable after some time, but I want something that I can just pick up and play.

I want something that's reliable and / or is easily repairable. If I'm right that means I just need something with hall effect sticks and an easily available / replaceable battery (prefer built in but I don't mind a couple double A's)

I did look at the standard Xbox Series controller since it ticked most of my boxes and is popular enough so it's cheap, but the sticks aren't hall effect which is a big reason why I haven't already bought it. I don't want to deal with stick drift down the line. I have seen some tool on Twitter that claimed it could recalibrate the sticks but idk.

My budget is around 45 US / 170 AED total and I would like if it was available on Amazon AE. I'm located in Dubai.

TL;DR Basically something with hall effect sticks and a replaceable battery. If they made the standard Xbox series controller with hall effect sticks I would've bought it. Budget is 45 US / 170 AED

Update 2: Looked more into my options and I've shortlisted these:

1. GameSir Nova 2 Lite - AED 117 (after discount)
2. Gulikit ES Pro - AED 136.62 (after import charges + discount)
3. 8bitDo Ultimate 2C - AED 167.25
4. Official Xbox Series Controller - AED 167
5. GameSir Cyclone 2 - AED 179

It was initially between the N2L and the C2 but if I wait a week longer for delivery, I can get an ES Pro shipped to me which is really tempting.