Yeah I stopped using my Elite because the rubber is falling off of it. I’m very happy with the Series X|S controller and only occasionally used the paddles or stick swaps so no big loss.
owning and enjoying my Xbox series S and series X in respectable coeX|Sistance
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I still have my same 2001-model PS2 that my stepdad got for his birthday which I inherited once he grew out of Gran Turismo and Oddworld
what I’m saying is that the PS2 is timeless and perfect and beautiful
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I have more SNK fighting games for PS2 than I could ever play
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I did this a lot for people. I had one of each kind of disk as my test set and if you tweak the laser focus and power just right you can find the sweet spot that reads everything.
I got my own PS2 finally after using people’s fixer upper systems and bought Shadow Of The Colossus, Dragon Quest 8 and MGS3 all at the same time and played them using the Dragon Quest slime controller.
Ill likely never have a better video game year than that.
PS2 forever yall.
As for games played lately Im still plunking away at Grandia but now on my 13" cash register CRT.
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I started dropping inputs on RB, the same start that led to the bumper break before, and they ‘emergency extended’ the warranty period to a year (3 months on this thing is galling), so I no-hesitation sent mine in without cracking it open. Best part is they told me to ship no accessories including paddles and thumbsticks but they sent me a full kit back - best because I also managed to wear out the glue holding the top disk to the thumbsticks on an earlier model, resulting in spinning analog sticks.
The only things I really want out of this are the much nicer analog sticks with the low-friction chroming and 2 back paddles. If I could get those features on a base-quality controller I’d love it.
I’ll always stand up to help reify our community narrative that the PS2 is the SNES to the PSX’s NES. It’s the returns on all the experimental work kicked off by the PSX’s new tech and radically open access; it’s safer but almost always playable and goodtimes. And it forecasted the dark decade ahead as games got bigger and more and more closed off and safe until digital distribution cracked it open again.
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On reflection my ideal next gen controller would be split like joycons but large and ergonomic with paddles - essentially shaped like VR controllers. Maybe the next Valve VR iteration will just work in other games.
(Do the Index controllers work with Steam Input?? I had never considered it!)
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oh that’s an interesting thought. I can try and report back.
You really wouldn’t want to, though. The analog stick and 2 face buttons are the most desultory, petty button placements I’ve seen, they practically beg not to be used. And Valve continued the tradition from the Vive of the squeakiest triggers this side of a Dreamcast.
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I now have to admit that I took apart those controllers last night to apply Krytox GPL 105 oil to the springs 
The Oculus Touch controllers are super comfortable but, well, you know
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ooh
Where’s the friction occurring that produces the sound?
My partner’s RT was crunchy because she keeps it on the shortest throw setting and mashes it with semi-auto guns in Destiny. The foam pad had slipped to the other side so it was no longer dampening contact with the clutch but I also put a drop on the trigger springs themselves, where the bumper piece contacts with other plastic near the USB port, and the second plastic spring near the bumper’s actual tactile button a centimeter or so behind the bumper.
The hair throw clutch adjustment is just molded ABS like anything else - with keyboards I use silcone grease for metal-on-plastic and PTFE for plastic-on-plastic and that works well here. If I lost the foam pad I’d use 3M friction tape.
I used to be super impressed at the Xbone pad for feeling comparatively like a digital piano key on the triggers but it’s really just a small foam square doing great work.
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Ah, that’s neat. I thought you were talking about repairing a squeaky Dreamcast or Xbox or Xbox 360 or Vive or Index trigger; my assumption without ever fixing the issue is that it’s the molded plastic button slightly out of alignment and rubbing against the case.
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Oh, sorry, I have examples of that too! I gave someone the Hyperkin Duke around Xmas and that trigger design (Dreamcast as well, I think) uses a spring perpendicular to the controller vs. parallel in modern designs. It creaked out of the box but I removed it, oiled it with GPL 105, then replaced it and added a little grease around the cavity for good measure (but not so much that it would ever build up on the trigger itself).
On a 360 controller you have a similar design with rails that just need some PTFE grease in my experience.
(from ifixit, ignore the boxes)
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hey hey!
(Caveat if anyone uses this info to go grease up their old controllers - clean the plastic surfaces with a degreaser or isopropyl alcohol and dry before adding PTFE)
I’ve just recently come to realize I don’t like this controller much, but I’m stupidly fussy about controllers.
I don’t like the SN30 Pro or the N30. I guess I don’t like 8BitDo.
I feel like I should stress the stupidly fussy part though, I don’t think me not liking a controller should really factor much into other people’s choices. Most people seem happy with controllers I don’t like.
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out of the box it feels too stiff to me and i never used to enough to figure out if it “breaks in”.
edit: bumpers are bad too, especially l1 & r1
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finished yakuza 6. felt like I’d always heard after 0, 5 was the other great one, and 6 was “a lesser entry but good for kiryu’s arc” but I thought 5 was all over the place and with 6 we’re finally back to 0 quality, nearly. and only nearly because it didn’t have gambling, no random battle disabling items, kamurocho was incomplete, it was the eighth instead of first yakuza game I played, etc. 4 and 5 were still pretty good though
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generally speaking I think everything they released from 0 onward is better than everything before, including 6/7 and the remakes of 1/2, the prequel really helped them lean into the tone and polish the writing
7 is very slack in places and 5 has a lot of heart so not a hard rule but I think still very close to one
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m30 is good, most of the others are just flexible, convenient and budget friendly
the m30 is the real deal tho
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