Custom controllers

[BasiliskFang]

- play FC/NES with a SNES pad

- use an analog stick with the nes max.

[Parodius Duh]

Im diggin'  the analog stick on that NES max!     I hate the regular rotating circular pad!

[satoshi_matrix]

Too bad the NES MAX is still a rather shotty controller, with an uncomfortable grip and bad feeling buttons.

[Parodius Duh]

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 

[BasiliskFang]

the max pad is a total joy to use. now if only i could get a BPS japanese version.

[manuel]

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.

[Jedi Master Baiter]

My vision of the NES Max was skewed because when I was a kid the first one I laid eyes on was modified.

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.

[Cheetahmen]

Now 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.

[Xious]

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. 

[BasiliskFang]

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?

[punkpolitical]

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBtN4Uhl1vc

I'm thinking about wiring up a trackball also.

[NintendoKing]

- 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.

[Jedi Master Baiter]

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 ).

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).

[BasiliskFang]

well, there weren't many d pads back then. nes, genesis and master system...?

[Jedi Master Baiter]

Come to think of it, yes - it must've been a Genesis d-pad.