i am going to test it with the brook wingman sd on the saturn with donpachi. will let you know how it works. should be a test both that it works on the wingman and if the d-pad is usable for anything tight. first impressions (disconnected) are that the diagonals are easy to hit but i get a “double” click when i do so… i feel like maybe it should be able to bang out a diagonal in a single click intuitively, but i dunno how it works and i haven’t tried it in a game yet
Last time MS did one of those controller sales (February?), I did this. Feels like a million years ago.
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Wow, blown away by those hella fresh colors. It’s like a high quality sneaker only better
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Thanks!!!
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the d-pad on this thing is pretty good
had no issues with donpachi, street fighter alpha, or saturn bomberman
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i will note that i can only use this wired right now with the wingman sd - i can’t get it to sync wirelessly.
the xbox wireless adapter dongle which i had from years back for use with aforementioned dying xbone pad… while it does work out of the box with the new sexbox pad, it needs drivers, so i can’t use it to cheat wireless out of the wingman sd.
the wingman sd will likely need a brook firmware update to make xbox series controllers work wirelessly
works great wired, though, even through multiple usb extenders!
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Really hoping the return of Xbox design lab corresponds to me suddenly needing a new XseX controller!
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so I just thought about this but
does anyone else hate the typography used on xbox controllers? It makes them look so cheap and shitty
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Definitely makes them look that, yeah. ABXY look like baby’s first buttons. I’ve gotten used to it and when I look at them nowadays I remember the time when I was little and watched Thunder in Paradise thinking it’s the coolest shit ever
My 360 controller’s triggers creak though so I don’t use it anymore, ever
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I like that the letters are three-dimensional, reminds me of all those little souvenirs you can buy that are like, a scorpion in a dome of resin, or some shit.
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So I’m gonna put some new switches in my Razer Raion. I don’t know how to open it.
A promising start.
Unsurprisingly, the shell does not surrender after removing the 5 screws hidden under the sticker. So I begin (foolishly) prying with a flathead screwdriver; first along the bottom, successfully finding two clips and also fucking up the plastic a bit. I attempt to pry open the top and all around the side edges, to no avail.
A bit perplexed and afraid of shattering the shell, I switch approaches. Unexpectedly the seams along the middle-back of the grips were not just for looks, and after some firm prodding with a couple guitar picks one managed to pop off, revealing the additional screws preventing the shell from separating.
They were nestled pretty deep in cramped holes, luckily I had just recently acquired a 6" long #1 phillips bit for an unsuccessful attempt at repairing my broken projector.
Thar she blows, etc.
The yellow Razer switches, as advertised, on the right. They’re short-actuation linears. Those tiny all-metal switches near the bottom, for the headset buttons, are kinda neat. Didn’t expect the d-pad switches to look like that, to re-iterate my previous opinions on the controller: I think they feel good, low resistance and nicely clicky.
The prevailing criticisms of the pad revolve around the dpad, and how it has a tendency to miss/double/mixups inputs - with the most repeated explanation being that it lacked a raised center pivot-point causing simultaneous-opposite inputs. But it does clearly have a center pivot, and the whole assembly is interesting, substantially engineered.
The exterior dpad plastic piece you actually manipulate passes through the shell and is screwed to this inner plate, with the four larger white plastic/rubber dots are what depress the mechanical switches on the PCB. In between each of the white dots are small raised black pegs.
The small pegs pop up through the flexible green silicone/rubber layer in this plate, securing the two pieces together and providing the re-centering and resistance force. Nice.
I will be replacing the Razer Yellows with Kailh Speed Bronze switches. Seem similar, but they click. “The click is the trick,” they say.
I managed to get the old ones off and the new ones on, only ruining one Yellow.
Put it back together. Feels good, makes clicks. What more could a boy ask for?
Only noticed, when testing it out on the PC to make sure everything still worked properly, that I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t match up the little external slider on the bottom that controls the shoulder button mappings with the internal switch, so it is stuck, shucks.
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update: it plays fuckin’ great
i wish i had the pedals though, which are apparently unobtanium. there’s a VGA-style port on the wheel, so i suspect any of the logitech pedals with the same port might conceivably work… hmmm
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f…f…flappy vagina??
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hey gamers, wanna prevent prolapse?
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Who’s going to do the first playthrough of MGS2 with this in the place of the analog buttons?
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More than One BILLION women?
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now i know why the bird makes that face
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