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Using a controller for an emulator is not as hard as you would think as it doesn't require anything fancy. If it has a USB port, that makes the job a lot easier and can be detected onto your own computer. All that needs to be done is plug it in either the front or back USB ports and that's about it. To go about using emulators and a controller together, it can be done in a rather simple step. However, each will have a couple examples on how it works.

NES Emulator: Mostly in options, go to input and then set up the keys that you wish for it to be on there. If you are familiar with how to set up a controller, you know to use the directions like up, down, left, and right for the right keys. If you make a mistake, you can easily correct it. As for the start and select, just use the two buttons in the middle for that to happen. Most if not all of today's controls have at least four buttons so only the two that are going to be needed the most. Most games have one for fire and one for jumping so just go about it. If there's a turbo option maybe use the buttons above or below depending upon the set up of course.

SNES Emulator: Most controllers use four buttons and have some L and R buttons. All that needs to be done to get this to work properly is to actually just input the keys on what you wish for them to be. Sometimes you can look at a Super Nintendo controller for example and see how it is set up and follow that route.

Looking at it even further, it can be used one of two different types of controllers. It can be either the Xbox 360 controller or get a regular PC one. It would be wise to get one that would actually last for a while. As far as does it have to be a used or a new controller, well it depends on the brand itself. It would be wise however to simply find one that is a major brand and not an off-brand. Then again, those could work out if obtaining the proper item in the first place.

Any of the emulators could probably work for what you need it to do. The only one that doesn't seem to be able to have this type of feature would be the Atari 2600 ones since it has to be done through a keyboard. Consider that the system had one button mainly to use and it wouldn't be a necessity to actually have to use a controller.

As for any other emulator, just do it the same way as mentioned in the two examples mentioned above with the NES and SNES ones. Once you have the controller hooked up, just go to input or whatever the option is depending on emulator to get for the systems.

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