I wonder if Sony correctly labeled the select and start buttons as select and play if then we’d still have a physical triangle button as the “let’s fucking go” button instead of uh… “options” or “the thing that could be a trackpad but is used more like a huge unnamed button - but only the right side of that thing”.
reminds me the wii-u pro controller was so good
I never used it so I’m curious: what made it so good? I hear that sentiment a lot though.
supposedly they put overstock 3DS batteries in them so they would last something ridiculous like 40-60 hours on a charge
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one of the side mouse buttons on my viper ultimate died, so I start looking around for a replacement. I’ve had this thing for 6 years I think, I figure that’s a good run. I didn’t really want to replace it, but I’d rather do that than try to take a god damn mouse apart and mess with switches. the straight replacement from razer is the viper v3 pro or something, and that’s like $150, and it doesn’t even work with my little viper charging stand thing that came with the ultimate, which was $90. that is not an acceptable set of circumstances.
so I start looking around, and I find a thing called a eweadn s9 ultra, which is a chinese viper v3 clone that I got shipped to me for $50 flat. this thing is great, I’m feeling good. it uses the same sensor as the viper, and the same shape, which is a little…fuller than the ultimate. I like it more. it doesn’t use razer’s optical switches because those are proprietary, and it weighs like 9g more than the v3 pro (but still like 10-12 less than my ultimate), but other than that it’s the same mouse. so I’m feeling good. except then I plug it in to charge it after using it for a few days, and the thing starts squealing at me. the mouse is alive. I don’t know if it’s coil whine – in a fucking mouse! – or some LED problem or fucking what, but it’s very annoying. I can deal I guess since I use it wirelessly and only plug it in to charge it, except I’ve had this thing plugged in for a long time and the LED continues to indicate that it isn’t at full charge. which makes me wonder if the thing isn’t holding a charge and the noise I’m hearing is, I dunno, the battery in there getting ready to explode. why is life so difficult
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ok, this thing did actually charge. once it hit full charge the noise went away. I can’t tell if that’s a good sign or a bad sign!
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This is my mending fetish at work, but you can medium-easily replace the button PCB on the Viper with, eg, this one on Etsy if the new mouse is engulfed in flames or something.
Yeah these modern conventional style N64 pads are cool but I can’t imagine playing Sin and Punishment with them
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I’ve come to accept that the N64 ain’t a great console but its funky banana octopus grip is a charming piece of friction. Hardly the least of the console’s problems
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I got all pissy with Amazon missing my scheduled delivery day (whenever they do they re-deliver it first thing in the morning by setting it out in the open in front of my house until I can get home, don’t need that anxiety!) so my 8bitdo N64 controller should hopefully arrive tomorrow, when I am home.
I’ll let y’all know if it works…
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yeah, the problem with the N64 is that either the game is so closely tied to the controller layout that it’s unplayable on anything else or it works regardless of layout because you’re only ever using stick or dpad and the other option is vestigial
shockingly 99% of those unplayable games are FPSes and most of them have been freed from the console or were ports to begin with
I just want a controller that plays Starfox 64 without having C buttons feel weird, personally
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i love how alien the n64 controller problems are to everyone who had a superpad plus
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Complete with the metal joystick post!
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It’s somehow been an entire year, at least, since I used my Mister (I’ve also had my Steam Deck for about a year, probably not a coincidence…) so I had to sort of relearn how they changed that thing. No more Bluetooth script? Just hold OSD for pairing? OK.
Anyway! Used the new 8Bitdo N64 controller to beat the first world of Banjo Kazooie and - it seems fine. It doesn’t feel shitty like the Retro Fighters pad kinda does, buttons all map nicely.
Stick definitely ain’t like the N64, so be ready for that.
I should play Ocarina of Time, the one game I had when I had an N64 (well, that, GoldenEye, and uhh…Bio FREAKS) to see if it more or less plays like I remember.
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this isn’t inherently a bad thing because the N64 stick was a self-destructing piece of precision garbage
eyeballing pictures, it looks like a GCN stick, to which I say good
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I remember thinking this controller was so bad back in the day, but looking at it now, it seems alright? Maybe the buttons just didn’t feel good in my memory, or it was the stigma of being the 3rd party controller at my friend’s house that made it feel bad in my head.
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I like the Mobapad Chitu and M6 a lot but the dpad is so bad, so when I heard the new Mobapad Huben 2 fixed it, I decided to get it. I’ll report back if it’s true and if its other changes are good or not.
I love the Chitu but my D-Pad in particular favors veering right when pressing down. Made playing Blasphemous (and trying to land downward strikes) absolutely miserable.
Yeahhhhh my Chitu and M6 both have the problem of putting random left right inputs when holding down, which made puzzle games impossible. A shame bc everything else about the controller is perfect
The new Mobapad came in! I’m not a fan of the glossy front, already feels slightly greasy somehow. Also feels really heavy but I saw you could remove the added weights in it lol
Mobapad Huben 2 update: the dpad is fixed and perfect now! I was able to play Puyo Tetris fine with no misdrops. Though I keep pressing the d-circle too hard - feels like the mouse Switch they use now compared to the ChiTu has a much smaller actuation, or they changed something between the switches and dpad circle that makes it smaller.
I couldn’t get over how heavy it was so I opened it up and took out the two weights and it’s fine now. Why do people want to use heavy controllers? Do they enjoy wrist pain? I don’t understand it.
I like the extra back buttons. They added two more in more natural places than the previous version. Remind me to add photos later
Minor complaints: I don’t like the glossy finish, it feels bad to me. I prefer the matte feel of the ChiTu and M6 by far but maybe I’ll get used to it. I also don’t like how the face buttons are Xbox layout when it’s a Switch & pc controller.
Anyway, here’s the video that made me want to get the controller in the first place:
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