If you are interested in playing the console emulators and don’t wanna have to use a keyboard, then you might find this tip to be quite useful.

You can use a wired Xbox 360 controller on your PC. I have used mine successfully on both SNES9x and ZNES but should work on anything you can use a regular PC joystick with. It must be an actual wired controller though. I tried a wireless using a play and charge adapter and had no luck.

When you plug the controller into a USB port on on your PC, Windows should recognize it and and say new hardware found. In my case it was just plug and play, but if not you may have to download drivers which are available from Microsoft.

360 Drivers for Windows

I found that this also works flawlessly under Ubuntu 10.4 without having to install any extra drivers. Which is great cause I pretty much live on Ubuntu.

Well I hope this is helpful to someone. Enjoy