Controller alternatives

Sorry this post was in response to the following thread:

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/Dual-Analogue-C...

Cheers. Do you have experience of using any of these contollers, and do you have a personal favourite?

I'm a little reticent to buy another Logitech, since I imagine the Rumblepad is just a Dual Action with even more components to go wrong.

XBox 360 controller - do these not need an adaptor? My local game store was selling Xbox360 to USB converters? (At least, I THINK it was XBox360 to USB, but maybe it was XBox to USB...   ) Also, does windows recognise them?

I'm reluctant to use adaptors as all the reviews I've read of them say they are poo (axis "flickering" etc).

Found this, which may be of interest...

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/XBOX-360-contro...

Looks like I can get an Xbox360 controller! Yay!

I bought it! See

I just bought one - see:

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/games/modules.php?name=F...

To answer my own question - it has 4 shoulder buttons. Two are "buttons" and 2 are "triggers" but the triggers work just like buttons in ProEvo (only game I've tested so far) even though the Windows GameController applet calls it the z-axis.

I have been using an XBOX360 controller on my pc for about a week. It works really well in the couple of games that I have played, NFS: MW and SC: CT, whereas my Saitek P2500 controller didn't work with SC. The only problem that I have had is that there is absolutely no rumble   with the controller. I hope that Microsoft releases new drivers soon that take advantages of the force feedback.