(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f282/vlame/th_photo-19.jpg) (http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f282/vlame/photo-19.jpg) - play FC/NES with a SNES pad
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f282/vlame/th_IMG_20111125_213609.jpg) (http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f282/vlame/IMG_20111125_213609.jpg) - use an analog stick with the nes max.
Im diggin' the analog stick on that NES max! 8) I hate the regular rotating circular pad!
Too bad the NES MAX is still a rather shotty controller, with an uncomfortable grip and bad feeling buttons.
Quote from: satoshi_matrix on November 26, 2011, 12:40:19 am
Too bad the NES MAX is still a rather shotty controller, with an uncomfortable grip and bad feeling buttons.
I personally like how it feels and dont have a problem with the buttons. Just that shitty dpad circular thing....ughhh :-X
the max pad is a total joy to use. now if only i could get a BPS japanese version.
Quote from: satoshi_matrix on November 26, 2011, 12:40:19 am
Too bad the NES MAX is still a rather shotty controller, with an uncomfortable grip and bad feeling buttons.
Back in the day I so wanted one. It looked so cool in the Nintendo Club magazine.
My vision of the NES Max was skewed because when I was a kid the first one I laid eyes on was modified. :blinky:
It had a D-pad affixed instead. ???
For years I wanted an unmodded one; then I finally bought two, then realizing they weren't any better. :(
Now what I would like to see is an NES controller modded with a diagonal d-pad to play Rare's isometric games.
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on November 27, 2011, 02:14:51 amNow what I would like to see is an NES controller modded with a diagonal d-pad to play Rare's isometric games.
And Q-Bert, presumably.
Q*Bert is best-played with an eight-way joystick.
I never liked the BPS/max controller and I found it exceptionally taxing to use. I honestly don't know what games it was intended to improve, but I never found it be anything special. I prefer either a proper, leaf-spring joystick, or a joycard, or the middle-ground Atari joysticks. I don't recall the name off-hand, although 'Competition-Pro' sounds about right, but those Atari-compatible sticks with the cherry switches are a personal favourite, and NES/FC models exist (I have a few).
I still plan to make trackball and mouse FC controllers, for those curious. My FC trackball is still apart, on my workbench. :bomb:
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on November 27, 2011, 02:14:51 am
Now what I would like to see is an NES controller modded with a diagonal d-pad to play Rare's isometric games.
i wonder what d-pad they used because the normal nes d-pad is too small. was a d-pad put there in place of the red slider?
I hate the Nes Max controller to hard to control. I prefer my arcade control panel wired up to my Nes it works the best.
It has a proper Leaf-Spring joystick and Leaf-Spring buttons. I can play anything with it got halfway through Battle Kid with it.
(http://i999.photobucket.com/albums/af118/punkpolitical/1127111530.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBtN4Uhl1vc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBtN4Uhl1vc)
I'm thinking about wiring up a trackball also.
Quote from: BasiliskFang on November 25, 2011, 09:52:03 pm
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f282/vlame/th_IMG_20111125_213609.jpg) (http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f282/vlame/IMG_20111125_213609.jpg) - use an analog stick with the nes max.
I'd like to have this mod on both of my max controllers, as they are pretty cool controllers.
Quote from: BasiliskFang on November 27, 2011, 12:53:41 pm
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on November 27, 2011, 02:14:51 am
Now what I would like to see is an NES controller modded with a diagonal d-pad to play Rare's isometric games.
i wonder what d-pad they used because the normal nes d-pad is too small. was a d-pad put there in place of the red slider?
Huh, what? Oh!
(sorry, I think you quoted the wrong part)Honestly, I forgot. I wish I took a picture of it before I recycled it, like 5 years ago.
I've never seen the inside of an NES brick gamepad, but I don't think it was from one of those. The d-pad itself was small, but it was attached to a thick layer of plastic that I assume was supposed to be
inside the controller. It was instead glued right on top, & I assume the red slider was removed (or broken to begin with :upsetroll:).
This d-pad had to have come from something in the late '80s/early '90s.
Anyone have a list of NES d-pad controllers I could look through. I'm pretty sure it was NES (or trying to look like NES).
well, there weren't many d pads back then. nes, genesis and master system...?
Come to think of it, yes - it must've been a Genesis d-pad. :P
3 button era. I might try this.