Elves 2

I'm a fan of the M30 for emulation, but not so much for many modern 2D games. It's a good d-pad for platformer games. It's nice to have the 6 button layout for Mega Drive / Saturn emulation and many modern fighting games, but that layout falls short in Nintendo games - especially modern ones - to th

GuliKit Elves 2 (not Pro) is my latest favorite. Really comfy Saturn style pad with analog sticks and polls > 700 over Bluetooth. About 1k wired. Absolute gem. (Pro is also good and has some additional features but has very run of the mill latency when Bluetooth because of a significantly reduced po

Gulikit elves 2 non pro if you want a cheap option ($30) with a good dpad. Very accurate and easy to press since some people complain of thumb pain having to press down some dpads over long periods of time. Very good face buttons as well. Very low latency over bluetooth. It is on the small side but

Generally you're right, but RetroArch does some miracles in this regard. If you have a good responsive controller (I use gulikit elves 2) and a decent monitor you can have as low or even lower latency than original hardware. In the 8 bit era games generally had 2 frames ot lag. 16 bit, 2 or 3. In th

Theoretically you can have even lower lag on emulation compared to og hardware on CRT. But preemptive frames only cut the original input lag. Hence, never put more than 1 or 2 preemptive frames unless you know for sure that the particular game has bigger intrinsic lag than that. Your monitor and con

Meron ako Pro Con 2 and Gulikit Elves 2 for fighting games. Never tried 8bitdo pero Gulikit maganda quality nya as a controller. You can check YT about Gulikit ES Pro for review. Yung ES Pro kasi ang may pinakamababa latency sa Bluetooth connection so no input lag. TMR din yung analog stick so no dr

If you want the same button layout as a traditional controller I suggest the new Gulikit Elves 2 (The normal not the pro version). The latest ad cheaper version is superior to the Pro. It has a 730Hz polling rate via bluetooth which is crazy. It's a really great controller for fighting games. Apart

I would recommend using a controller for fighting games over keyboard. If you don't ever use them and only consider it for this game, I'd recommend the Gulikit Elves 2. It's so easy to do quarter circle inputs on and has the best Bluetooth I've ever used. It's not super cheap but 1000% better than a