Bluetooth + USB Options for SEGA Dreamcast

[Nz17]

Have you tried any of the Bluetooth or USB hardware adapters for SEGA Dreamcast? If you don't like the official nor unofficial controllers for DC, then just get one of these like the USB4Maple bus adapter and utilize your favorite USB controller or one of the other ones for Bluetooth.

For example, like the SEGA Genesis or Saturn games / sequels that arrived on the Dreamcast via official or unofficial means? Then use a modern official SEGA Genesis controller with a wired USB cable or USB wireless dongle and play that way! Prefer the wired controller for PS3, Xboxes, Nintendo Switch, or the like? They are now an option! Want to utilize the Wii Remote or another Bluetooth compatible controller? Go that route!

Whether they are PC or console controllers, if they are Bluetooth or USB and they aren't trying something too weird nor proprietary, then they should work with these modern, fan-created adapters for Dreamcast!

I haven't tried any of them yet. However, I have heard good things about them and their hardware compatibility. Please let us know if you have tried or will be trying any of these!

[Az]

I've had a Brook Wingman SD adapter for a while now, it's a combo unit that does both Saturn and Dreamcast. Never tried it on the Saturn side and only tried it using a wired connection, but it worked great.

It has built-in VMU storage which was unexpected but cool, although I think I would have preferred an actual memory card slot instead. Reason I say that is a regular controller can have two cards in it, while this only functions as one. Also if you're playing one of those games that requires you to have your game save in port 1 of controller 1, you may have to do some finagling around to get everything setup. You can access your VMU saves on a PC though so that may be handy if you don't have a Dreamcast SD card adapter or another method to do that.

It can map the face buttons to the second analog stick and also apparently swap stick functions so FPS games control just like modern ones. I have never tried the swap function yet but I did try it with the conventional DC setup of left stick aim and right stick movement. Years of CoD muscle memory was causing my brain to misfire, but it was still nice to move with a stick instead of face buttons.

I own a few (6?) different Brook products and they all work great for what they are. The only hiccup I ever had was with one of their earlier Xbox adapters, it got boinked when MS updated their console firmware to lock out unlicensed 3rd party controllers from working on the 1/SX. A firmware fix was not possible but as soon as it happened Brook released a v3 of the adapter that worked fine, so you just had to pony up and buy the newest version. The outdated the old version adapter still worked fine on OG XB and 360. Strangely their super old 360-to-XB1 adapter was not affected at all.

(As a side rant, I never understood the logic behind MS doing that update. It didn't affect all unlicensed stuff, and the companies that did just rolled out an updated product right after. To cap it all off it basically did nothing but inconvenience fight stick users, people using Cronus Zens and other peripherals to cheat on online games were totally unaffected.)