Beitong is a Chinese company that has been making gaming periphials for over 20 year now, but only for their local market. Now their products are being listed also on Aliexpress with worldwide shipping and more easily available for a Western consumer. And they make really good controllers, especially in terms of build quality and quality control. I have had the chance to test their lastest TMR controller: the Beitong Kunpeng 20 and I can say I am quite positively impressed.
The TMR joysticks are made by Beicheng and they are accurate and nice to use, very similar to you standard Hall Effect sticks, but presumably they are a bit better for FPS games.
There’s a gridded texture on front and back of the controller and it feels good in hands, stable and quite grippy. The build quality feels really sturdy and it’s the best thing about the controller besides the TMR sticks I think. It feels like the quality control is pretty well done by Beitong and the controller feels more premium than cheap. There’s no audio 3.5mm jack input unfortunately.
I really like the mechanical face buttons. The Dpad also has these micro switch clicky buttons but it’s not that comfortable to use and I wouldn’t always hit the diagonals accurately.
There’s the trigger lock in the back so you can use triggers in analog mode for racing games or something like Rocket League or you can switch it to normal hair trigger which will be more suited for FPS games. The hair trigger isn’t clicky, but it’s quite alright. And the analog trigger has a pretty decent travel distance and it was very comfortable when I tested it in Rocket League.
On the back of the controller you have the mentioned trigger locks switches, but also two back buttons and a switch to switch between wired/Bluetooth/dongle/App connection. Unfortunately you can’t map the back buttons to keyboard, but only to other exisiting buttons on the controller.
The polling rate when wired is 1000Hz, but the latency isn’t the best as you can see from the screenshot below from Gamepadla’s website:
It’s also got Gyro which works fine, but I haven’t tested it much.
Big con for me is the software and the fact that you have to download 250 MB .zip file in order to use it. You can download the software from Beitong’s support page here: https://www.betop-cn.com/en/#/support and the filename should be something like “PC-clientBEITONG Gamepad Assistant 2024-12-13” or a newer date at the end. Besides PC software, there’s also iOS and Android versions available. The software is a hassle to work with, it wouldn’t open for me after a several tries, I finally got it working, but it wasn’t the best experience.
For some reason the controller wouldn’t always work for me in wired mode, but I had no problems in Bluetooth or 2.4Ghz dongle connection.
You can get the Beitong Kunpeng 20 / KP20 for as low as around $30 on Aliexpress.
Verdict – it’s a great TMR controller for PC/Android/Switch at a low price with lots of features and really good build quality. The app is a downside for me. Definitely a recommend if you can get it under $40.
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