Gamepad Review
Gamepad review:
Here are some of the gamepads I’ve used when playing games.
Nice gamepad, it’s comfortable, it has a detachable joystick for the dpad, 10 buttons and 1 directional pad, it looks like a PlayStation controller without the two analog stick, it’s my first gamepad I bought, and I don’t know anything good to say. If you keep on pressing the button, in a week or less, it’s going to start making loud noise that can get annoying during gameplay. And if you press it hard, it’s going to stick for a second unless you turn it upside down, or give the gamepad a hard tap. Sometimes when it does, it’s doesn’t hold the input, and when that happens, to press that button you just have to touch the button being hold, which it’s pretty cool for me, but that touching could pop up the button, which can get annoying when you’re going to punch that button again. The dpad are really sensitive, because whenever you hold up, you could end up going up-right or up-left so easily. I ended up rocking left and right to balance my movement in the game. The company who makes them gives you a warranty incase something wrong happens, but you can’t open the the gamepad. A small screw driver will unlock the gamepad it self. There were these white-clear plastic thing with a black circle that are sandwiched between the circuit board and the button. Because they were being used alot, they were the problem. So I switched it with the start button because I know I wouldn’t tap that button alot. But weeks later (depending on how much time I’ve played the emulators) another button was making noise, and so I switched it with the select button. Then, weeks later it happened again, and I can’t switch with either 4 shoulder buttons because they different, so I’m stuck with that button. And then days after that it started to stick when I press the button hard. I didn’t like this gamepad, so I bought another type of gamepad, but I broke it, so this is my only gamepad as of now. I only use it for the left side of the controller which consist, the Dpad, the 2 shoulder button, and the select button. It felt like I’m using the Wii nunchuck with my left hand. It was fun using it that way to play Doom games, whereas my right hand uses the mouse for shooting, using, switching weapon(you have to get use to it) and looking left and right. I wouldn’t use this gamepad, the button sticking and making noise are annoying to ruin the gameplay. The cord is made out of lead, so be careful with it. I don’t know what would you do, but I wash my hands before and after the use of the gamepad.
This gamepad is awesome, the dpad accuracy is great, but it makes noise which is annoying, I suggest you get, but do not drop it on the floor alot of time. Mine’s just lost its left stick calibration by sticking down. So I break it because I can and I regret it. Wireless a excellent, there’s a way you can watch movies from a distance with one of those.
This arcade stick is awesome for playing arcade or fighting games. I’ve been using it for 4 months, and the stick is starting to get a little less tight. If you check out this blog you can mod it to your liking. There is a way you can hook it up to your pc! I tell you one day. I play it with street fighter 2 hyper fighter, on the SNES, and I had fun with it. If you’re going to play it then I’ll tell you how to configurate the arcade stick with street fighter one day. I bought the stick for $59.99 and I found it worthy.
In time, the stick will get loose, and lose it’s tight. To fix this, I found this post that mods the fighting stick. You can find another mod that customize the buttons color by going to the Champion Edition blog.
It’s ok, but I didn’t like. I don’t know much about, I forgot about it 3.5 years ago. But it broke.
Well that’s all the gamepads I’ve tried. Here are some gamepads worth checking out:
Genius MaxFire Pandora Pro
Logitech Precision plug and play gamepad
Logitech ChillStream gamepad for pc
Microsoft Xbox360 wireless control
