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I've been having a heck of a time with gamepads recently.  I had an Xbox 
360 pad I'd been using for a quite long time.  I had to remove the 
rumblers as there's no way to control it except if the game you're 
playing has the controls to do so.  That was actually really easy as 
there were only a few screws to open it and there were small white power 
connectors that I just disconnected.  Not long ago It developed a break 
in the cord and kept disconnecting repeatedly.

I bought a Logitech one on amazon as that was refereed as being good to 
use with dos-box games (xbox pad won't) and working well with the DC 
fighting game. I never did figure out how to get it working in dos box, 
but I haven't really tried.  It doesn't seem any better for the fighting 
game either.  It's awfully small and extremely uncomfortable. I've 
actually got somewhat small hands, so I'm not sure why people would like 
this one.  I also found the pad/stick layout far inferior to the xbox 
360 one.  So I've only been using it as a 2nd pad for when playing 2 
player with the son, or when my other pad breaks.  I had bought this 
prior to my xbox pad breaking, but I couldn't stand it for long.

As such after the xbox pad broke I immediately ran over to gamestop. 
They didn't have a real xbox 360 pad, but had one that looked similar 
for about the same price, and it was fairly comfortable compared to the 
logitech, perhaps even better than the xbox pad and the rumblers were 
mild so didn't have to remove them.  That one lasted only a couple 
months before developing a bad connection - as it had a micro usb with a 
separate cord.

Knowing gamestop only had those I went to Target.  I bought one that 
appeared to be an xbox 360 pad, but turned out to be another off brand. 
That one lasted less than a month before the right stick started 
misregistering that it was in the down position, making it impossible to 
play with.

I since ordered another xbox 360 pad from amazon, this time wireless. 
It's quite a bit heavier and a bit more uncomfortable than I remember, 
It seems like it isn't responding as well as the wired ones do, with 
some occasional lag, this could be a serious problem so I may have to 
just order something else.  Even if it clear up somehow (not sure how 
I'll fix that) It looks like I'm going to have to remove the rumblers 
from this one as well as they are again far to strong with no way to 
turn off or dampen within some games I play, and it's way too heavy 
which that will help with.  I'd hate to buy yet another xbox 360 wired 
pad that I'm paying for rumblers I'm just going to have to remove.

I see there's the xbox one pads, but they cost a good $30 more, and 
there seems to be some indication they might not all work with windows 
8, only 10, which I've avoided, and certainly don't want to pay for.

For those of you using a gamepad, do you have one you like that's lasted 
awhile?

- Justisaur