GP2040-CE VS retro-pico-switch

If you're making a home made arcade stick, check out the GP2040-CE project - https://github.com/OpenStickCommunity/GP2040-CE

It's got low latency and good compatibility for a bunch of platforms. Even some compatibility for PS4.

My advice is to rework your mixbox, as it is pretty much the only long-term solution. Personally, I would swap out the keyboard microcontroller and instead wire your keyswitches to a PiPico running the GP2040-CE firmware. That way you can easily remap the keys, as well as select between your controller acting one of these:

Talking about RP2040 powered controller firmware. GP2040 is an amazing project, which is used a lot in the Fighting Game Community where custom controllers are common. https://github.com/OpenStickCommunity/GP2040-CE

you can connect to it the same way as a brook pcb (without soldering), and its firmware is far more customizable with great input latency test results. you can read about the firmware here: https://github.com/OpenStickCommunity/GP2040-CE

congrats on the build & thank you for sharing your experience! if I may suggest you to take a look at the open source project using the Raspberry Pi Pico and other boards based on the RP2040 microcontrollers. https://github.com/OpenStickCommunity/GP2040-CE

In theory, one would only need to use the Pi Pico (Using the CP2040-CE Firmware), since many play fighting games on PC; At least, that I am aware of. This, along with a few other things, would make it an "okay" controller at best, IMO.

I suspect GP2040-CE will pretty soon have some capability to switch between profiles on the fly, though of course you can never predict these things with volunteer open source development. In any case, I'd recommend GP2040-CE as an option over the Brook. You can buy a Pico breakout such as this one for cheaper than the Brook & have access to all sorts of cool features now and in the future.

There are already some cool projects using the PicoW bluetooth, I'm currently modifying https://github.com/DavidPagels/retro-pico-switch to try and make a custom controller from scratch. Hopefully it'll get far enough to push to github at some point.

I've been looking at [this project](https://github.com/DavidPagels/retro-pico-switch) to make the pi pico work as a USB plugged thing. He has code in there for wireless. The downside to using this project is it's more of a pass through for an already working gamecube controller. It looks like the guys at [Openstick](https://github.com/OpenStickCommunity/GP2040-BTH) hahttps://github.com/OpenStickCommunity/GP2040-CE) have code for the W. I'm probably going to start annoying these guys over discord on how to get my tilt controls to act the way i want them to.