8Bitdo Controllers

[luckyluca]

Speaking about 8bitdo controllers, I'm planning to purchase two SN30 PRO and bluetooth dongle to replace my 2 aging wireless xbox360 controllers. I use hyperspin and mame and retroarch mainly on windows7. The alternative would be to purchase the same xbox360 controllers again but I'm not a big fan of their D-PADs. 

 

Can you kindly let me know the following?

 

1) Can I connect two "8bitdo SN30 PRO" to a single "8bitdo Wireless USB Adapter"?

 

2) Do two indentical SN30 PRO show up as two different controllers in windows and xpadder, as they should, similarly to how xbox controllers are handled?

 

3) I suspect the 8bitdo Wireless USB adapter might be the better choice (it also says lag free under features which is promising). But What's the difference between the "Wireless USB Adapter" and the "Retro receiver"?

 

4) Can i otherwise connect two SN30 PRO to a single usb bluetooth dongle from other brands?

 

Many thanks!

Have a great weekend

Luca

 

[Rowr14]

@luckyluca

1. Not sure.

2. Not sure I only have one, but i would assume so,

3. Not sure on this either, I connect mine over bluetooth.

4. I'm connecting mine through a generic bluetooth adapter so I would expect so, as I said I only have one but I would be really suprised if you couldn't connect multiples.

Honestly I would check the 8bitdo website, or go to amazon reviews or something, I'm sure all these questions are answered in reviews.

 

[luckyluca]

you would think so, unfortunately I've been researching and none of the reviews and comments I found (reddit amazon as well) mention any of the points above .

I've since my post written to 8bitdo and they confirmed you need one usb wireless adapter per controller, which sounds excessive to me.

However a customer commented on amazon.co.uk that you can indeed connect multiple controllers to a single usb wireless adapter but only in d-input mode (this was never confirmed by 8bitdo).

I'm inclined to purchase 2 controllers and 3 usb dongles ( 2 8bitdo usb wireless adapter and 1 asus bt400 ), spend a week fiddling with it all and return the equipment which needs returning...

 

[gigapig]

Lovely looking controllers, I had the F30 Pro briefly until it failed. If they did a wireless one then I would get another, but I love my Xbone controllers to much to buy anything else. 

[Rowr14]

4 hours ago, luckyluca said:

you would think so, unfortunately I've been researching and none of the reviews and comments I found (reddit amazon as well) mention any of the points above .

I've since my post written to 8bitdo and they confirmed you need one usb wireless adapter per controller, which sounds excessive to me.

However a customer commented on amazon.co.uk that you can indeed connect multiple controllers to a single usb wireless adapter but only in d-input mode (this was never confirmed by 8bitdo).

I'm inclined to purchase 2 controllers and 3 usb dongles ( 2 8bitdo usb wireless adapter and 1 asus bt400 ), spend a week fiddling with it all and return the equipment which needs returning...

 

Is bluetooth not an option? Or am I thinking of the wrong model?

I have the one with the dual sticks and rumble which is the sn30/sf30 'PRO', the sn30 is the stock snes clone.

Yeh I think if your talking about the stock ones that connect to the dongle (commonly used for snes mini) yeh they seem a bit restrictive.

Yeh if you have the option to return stuff, that would be your least headache scenario to just have everything to see how it works.

[Bungles]

I only own one of the Nes30 Pro's. But I have used two Nes30 Pro's before as my friend also has a couple. They seems to work fine with a single generic BT receiver which I have.

Both were picked up in MAMEUIFX. And Xpadder does see them as two separate controllers, due to them having unique device IDs.

I set them up as Keyboard emulation in Xpadder for the systems with no native Joystick support.

No real issues found so far.

I would suggest the Pro over the normal Nintendo Looking one as they offer more buttons and feel less cheap overall.
I only really use the USB Connection for charging. 

 

I have also done up some simple special artwork for them.

Also been tinkering with some Controller Pause Artwork for RL.

 

[luckyluca]

Awesome, thank you. Yes both models I'm considering are the sf30pro which are wireless and bluetooth.

I'll try a generic bluetooth dongle first, (asus bt400 I was thinking) although it's bizarre that 8bitdo support confirmed me I would need one dongle per controller used.

 

I'm most interested bungles in how you got two working with your setup. I know they have various mode to operate, switch dinput xinput etc.

when you were running two of them wirelessly via bluetooth, what modes did you select and was it the same mode for both controllers? If you were using retroarch would you choose d-input or x-input?

Also did you have issues with controllers disconnecting due to power saving and loosing mapping in either mame or xpadder ?

Lastly are they seen as xbox 360 controllers or xbox one controllers natively?

Many thanks and sorry for the avalanche of questions

[Rowr14]

I've got the nes30 pro and fc30 pro as well as the sf30pro.

In retroarch nes30 and fc30 come up simply as bluetooth controller 1, bluetooth controller 2. Yes you connect them under the same mode without issue.

The sf30pro for me seems to come up as x-input. I've never had issues with any of them disconnecting or loosing mapping. Retroarch has no issues picking these controllers up by default and mapping them also so everything just seems to work in my experience.

I wish I could be more specific with my answers but I haven't played with them for a while while i'm trying to finish the front end side of things maybe bungles can help.

But basically I've rarely had any issues with them.