The box in this case is a little more impressive, easily as deep as the other two combined. Last, we have the Retrolink USB Sega Saturn Classic Controller. The cord is weirdly white instead of grey, but its generous 9-foot length easily satisfies. They even nailed that little detail of the X and Y buttons being concave, and the A and B buttons being convex. But inside is a perfectly crafted replica of an SNES controller. Again, the box does not inspire trust, like the NES controller box. Next up is the Classic USB Super Nintendo Controller for PC by Gtron. Every other button on the controller, every other direction on the d-pad works just fine, but not being able to press straight up would make a number of games unplayable, Bionic Commando included. No matter how many times I attempted to calibrate, pushing straight up on the d-pad always put the dot in the upper-left corner. I exited the emulator, went to my Control Panel, and calibrated the controller. Pressing up seems to register as up and left. And things go smoothly for about two minutes, at which point, I notice that there appears to be a problem with the d-pad. I open my favorite NES emulator, FCEUX, set up the controller, and load up Bionic Commando. I didn’t think anything of it at first – maybe that’s a generic USB controller driver that most manufacturers use, as long as it works, what does it matter that there’s extra buttons? Now, though, I’m not so sure. Strangely, it installed as a ten-button controller, even though it only has four buttons. I plugged it into my Windows 7 laptop, and it installed just fine. Related: Eight Strange Celebrity Cameos in Video Games Let’s take a look at each controller individually. Was it a better deal than my local game store? Well, yes and no. So I went on Amazon instead, where I managed to purchase 3 retro USB controllers for $25. A simple Google search revealed that I could, feasibly, do better. And no matter how many times I went back to that store, one time deliberately planning to buy one of them – I could not shake the feeling that I’d be paying too much, that I could do better online. My local store was selling these controllers for $25 a pop. There was just one minor problem – the price tag. And while it’s a fine solution, and I’ve never had any problems, the idea of having the authentic feeling of holding an NES or SNES controller while playing NES or SNES games on my computer was too alluring to resist. The PS2 controller can be adapted for use for every old system I can think of, the only awkward one being the N64, but it’s possible to work around it. I’d previously had a pretty simple system where it comes to controllers for games – the Xbox 360 controller for pretty much any PC game, a PS2 controller with a USB adapter for emulators. Not to mention, emulators make it a lot easier for me to capture game footage for the videos I make for Leviathyn. Fortunately, this has not been an issue for me for some time – you can find most retro games available for $10 or less either online or in your local retro game store nowadays. The legalities of emulation are pretty clear, if you don’t own the original game in some form, you shouldn’t download the ROM, because it is most CERTAINLY illegal to download games you don’t own. A retro-style USB controller….awesome!īeing a huge fan of emulation, this appealed to me immediately. I picked up the box and gave it a second look to find it was actually an NES controller mock-up with a USB plug, allowing the user to play PC games with an NES controller – or something that looked an awful lot like one. I was perusing the stock of my local retro games store a few weeks ago when I noticed something peculiar – brand new NES controllers available in a box I’d never seen before.
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