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#1138

I didn’t love that console wars book because its heroes were all in marketing instead of development – nothing against marketing people, just two totally different types of weirdos – but the descriptions of tom kalinske touring the hardware development department and everything being like 10 years from the future stuck with me, as someone who has only ever experienced all this stuff as a consumer of the final products.

I guess the final products ended up being sort of about polish as opposed to testing out new stuff? I love the Genesis pad as a beautiful perfected four button type controller and the saturn controller as a beautiful perfected million button 2d type controller.

Trying to articulate my purely emotional reactions to game controllers is making me realize it’s kind of inconsiderate to the forum to post when I haven’t slept in 48 hours. I apologize for subjecting you all to this soup!

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#1139

fwiw i think your posts are good & well articulated

select button: trying to articulate my purely emotional reactions to game controllers

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#1140

also i like how at one point the PSX was going to look like a big Dreamcast VMU (or rather, the Dreamcast VMU looks like a tiny PSX prototype).

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#1141

Hori Mini Controller for Switch. Comes in a few designs (including non-pokemon), but I like these colours.

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#1142

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Answer Fighting Joystick ANS-H113

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#1143

This is the controller Michael knight uses to remote control KITT

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#1144

It looks like we somehow never talked about the insane Hyperkin Duke when it came out two years ago, in classic black and transparent green plus holiday red

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It also has an OLED in the XBox button that plays the original XBox startup animation. This is the best, dumbest shit. How was this allowed to happen? Why didn’t we all buy one?

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#1145

The Xbox logo is so small on that Duke though, it’s like Controller S size on Duke sized controller

#1146

I liked the Controller S

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#1147

Damn. If I could summarize my home country in one controller…

#1148

I bought this wireless keyboard/mouse combo, and it took some getting used to how silent this thing is when you click. it makes like, no sound.

Anyway, if anybody is in the market for a silent mouse, this one is almost inaudible:

My experience with VicTsing’s cheaper wired stuff hasn’t been too great, but this combo had decent reviews, so we’ll see how long this mouse lasts before it stops registering scroll wheel clicks. Also, a plus is the keyboard doesn’t have a stupid, goddamn function key to get in the way. Goddamn, I hate the Fn key.

#1149

I tried one of these at a Microsoft Store and it was horribly uncomfortable. Dead on copy, though.

#1150

I have to say, the cheap Retrobit six button Genesis controllers are incredibly comfortable. I’m ashamed now of having spent so much money on a couple of Krikzz Joyzz controllers that have wireless issues and a not great d-pad when these $15 jobs mop the floor with everything. I got two USB and two Genesis connector versions.

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#1151

you’ll need the backup one when they inevitably break. then again, that’s kind of true to the original too, so whatever

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#1152

the new model of the retro-bit saturn pad with the slightly less shitty d-pad is the exact same way lol but the saturn pad is a thing of beauty and i cant resist its charms

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#1153

the USB port on my good one died so I had to take the dpad from the good one and put it in the shitty one to get a working frankenstein controller

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#1154

re: megadrive knock offs the m30 seems sturdy and good but i’ve only had it for a week or something

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#1155

I’d go for the 8BitDo M30, too, I love mine

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#1156

I told y’all to get that m30 last year and how it’s the MD/Saturn swiss blade wireless controller

also I want to know what you guys are doing to kill controllers so easily, I still have the 6-button I had for my Genesis and it works 25 years on just fine

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#1157

i had a 6 button megadrive pad bought with special champion edition around xmas 93 and it died in weeks, ended up with some third party thing