Gamecube Controller?

[Dislexeeya]

"Fully adjustable controls supporting virtually any USB gamepad, as well as a standard keyboard and mouse setup."

I happen to have a Gamecube Controller adapter as I emulate, so I'm curious about this claim in the game description.

And since we're on the same topic, is keyboard or use of a controller more favorable?

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I have never used a GC gamepad with any PC game so I can't speak for that.

As for gamepad vs. keyboard, well, I actually don't use any gamepad with my PC, but I enjoyed this game just fine with keyboard alone. There's also a possibility of using keyboard and mouse, which I haven't tried. I think that with mouse or with gamepad (with analog stick) you can move in all directions, while with keyboard you're limited to eight directions, but I've never run into any situation where I needed finer direction control than just eight directions.

[Rather Useless]

Did you ever have any problems with the keyboard not registering more than 2 keys being pressed at once?

[Helevorn]

I played the whole Ys series with a 10$ Trust USB controller (with turbo!) no problems at all :)
Play the whole series with a controller, it's definitely best

[Ikagura]

I've almost never used the keyboard+mouse to play the Ys games but I think it's possible to play with the GC controller if you have a good adapter, I have a PS2 pad adapter and I'll test it out for you

[Helevorn]

It'd be definitely way more frustrating to play only with keyboard and mouse the whole Ys series..
The great thing is that all the games released for PC so far support every kind of controller, I tried with a cheap USB one, the XBOX bluetooth one etc. and they're all supported.
I'd suggest to anyone to play even with only a cheap controller, I can't even imagine how difficult could be to play and replay these games on keyboard with all the puzzles and jump things, especially 'cos unlike the SNES Final Fantasys and so on it's 3d and many bosses need strategy, jumping, running..

[Dislexeeya]

I did test out a GC controller, and sadly it doesn't work. My GC works fine with all emulators and Rivals of Aether, but unfortunately not this game. Sad times.

[Ikagura]

Originally posted by Dislexeeya:

I did test out a GC controller, and sadly it doesn't work. My GC works fine with all emulators and Rivals of Aether, but unfortunately not this game. Sad times.

lack of an Xinput? At least there's Xpadder but I dunno if you can play Ys with only the keyboard

[Saralene]

Ys should support both DirectInput and XInput as far as I know, so that's a bit odd.
Yes, Ys can be played with only the keyboard, although you won't get full-grained analog movement.