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NES controller questions & comments

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I got a NES Advantage. It's nice but the stick and the buttons are a bit stiff for my liking. Is there anything I can do for them?

Cost is the major consideration (aside from usability), though, so I'd be interested to hear if there's a better NES controller out there. The NES Max seems interesting, and I heard Messiah (folks behind the infamous Generation NEX) makes some great controllers as well.
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Post by Damocles »

You could always rewire a SNES controller of some sort...
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Post by Ed Oscuro »

Actually, my SNES controllers are kinda crazy too...shoulder buttons not holding in place all the time for Operation Logic Bomb, for instance.
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Post by rolins »

This site has reviews on famicom joysticks. They'll work on the nes but you'll need to rewire them.

http://www.tomorege.com/contents2_katei ... iki02.html

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Post by Ed Oscuro »

I recognize some of those, but I can't read the text :o

Also, they're a bit too expensive for me. Just a better NES pad would be good, I think.

That said, I used the Advantage a bit more last night and it's alright, although I do not like the diagonals so much.
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You might recall the classy Advance Gravis NES joystick...

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Back in the NES days, Advance Gravis made such a cool NES joystick by the name of "Advance Gravis NES Joystick" -- which had built-in slo-mo, rapid-fire, and get this, fully adjustable joystick tension (where you could actually adjust the tension from "very soft" to rock-hard "firm" via turning this massive wheel on the bottom-side of this peculiar joystick setup)... ^_~

Built-in micro LEDs would light up to tell you if auto-fire and/or slo-mo functions were activated -- was a cool highlighted feature on this NES joystick...

There are three adjustable user buttons trims that can change the Buttons 'A' & 'B' settings to your liking...

Very interesting NES joystick, that Advance Gravis NES Joystick -- it used analog pots for registering the joystick movements and was encased in a super-cool transparent ABS plastic case to oogle at the electronics that made up that particular joystick..... ^_~

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