|
Post by bonesnapdeez on Sept 20, 2018 18:05:13 GMT -5
Given the quality of several of Hyperkin's products, this doesn't surprise me. It's not just cheapness, the inherent design of the thing is puzzling. It's like a 6-button Genesis controller (sorta) with a NGPC style "clicky stick" instead of a d-pad. It SUCKS.
|
|
|
Post by Sarge on Sept 20, 2018 18:24:51 GMT -5
Wow, that does look bad.
|
|
|
Post by toei on Sept 20, 2018 19:01:25 GMT -5
You know, it's the first time in my life I look at a controller and laugh, so there's at least that. The six buttons are aligned like a Saturn controller, but four of them have arrows like the "C button" on the N64, and the you have one of those weird joysticks everyone hates, a weird general shape, and two tiny buttons in the upper corners (L and R?)
|
|
|
Post by bonesnapdeez on Sept 20, 2018 19:20:27 GMT -5
L and R are actually in the normal spots but are very "flat" (and thus not visible in the picture).
Those two little unlabeled buttons are programmable hotkeys. I had one set to take screenshots, one to record a save state. Only cool thing about the controller is that functionality.
|
|
|
Post by Xeogred on Sept 20, 2018 20:36:15 GMT -5
Most of these are still bad, just imagine how bad they were 10 some years ago... when I tried out two NES clones, though I think one of them did SNES/Genesis too. The compatibility with these things was wack and the hardware/controllers were horrendous. I wanted an alternative NES, since those toasters aren't very reliable anymore from my experience, but yeah... this all turned me off from clones pretty hard. I still have those two and don't even know what to do with them, if I can even sell them. Something for the dumpster I guess.
I know bone's sold me on the Retron 5 over the years, but I guess I'm just too lazy and stingy for one right now.
The Buffalo SNES USB gamepad is the ultimate answer.
|
|
|
Post by Ex on Sept 20, 2018 23:01:45 GMT -5
first time in my life I look at a controller and laugh
|
|
|
Post by toei on Sept 20, 2018 23:12:24 GMT -5
These are just puzzling. At least I can understand what's going on with that lame Hyperkin controller, but these... I don't even want to look at them too long.
The Jaguar also had a ridiculous controller, with an insane number of useless buttons.
|
|
|
Post by nullPointer on Sept 20, 2018 23:23:05 GMT -5
first time in my life I look at a controller and laugh <Obnoxious monstrosity> I think the part of this abomination that really makes me laugh is imagining the design session where some engineer inevitably leapt up to exclaim, "And you know what!? Fuck it, why not a USB port right here!?" <jabs wildly at the PowerPoint projection>
|
|
|
Post by anayo on Sept 21, 2018 5:32:59 GMT -5
I wish they'd make a mini-system for those consoles that didn't sell very well, like Sega Saturn and Turbo Grafx 16 (especially the CD). The ironic thing is I don't think that will happen since those sold too poorly in the first place, so not enough people are nostalgic about them today to want to buy a remake in large numbers.
|
|
|
Post by bonesnapdeez on Sept 21, 2018 5:56:18 GMT -5
These are just puzzling. At least I can understand what's going on with that lame Hyperkin controller, but these... I don't even want to look at them too long. The Jaguar also had a ridiculous controller, with an insane number of useless buttons. The Jaguar controller seems like a throwback to the Atari 5200 controller, with the bad joystick replaced with a d-pad. "Number pads" were fashionable during the second gen (see the Intellivision & ColecoVision + the aforementioned 5200). I guess Atari thought they could utilize such a control scheme again. That shit was always awkward though. I don't think anyone even liked it during the second gen. There were countless old games that didn't even use the "numbers" -- most any arcade port, for instance.
|
|