Hell has frozen over

[seibu]

My PAL Mega Drive (Mk 1) seemed to be made out of egg shells. First the headphone socket started to malfunction, the RF unit became unsoldered and finally moving either very slightly caused a crash. It didn't work at all last time I got it out. Bah!

[DjSatansfury]

Yet my Mega Drive Mk1 is fine, and is study as hell...

[mid]

An official Nintendo peripheral has ****ed up on me. I can't quite believe it. My lovely indigo GC controller has locked up and the analogue stick cannot calibrate correctly. It's stuck in some ****ed up forward direction.

Just out of curiosity, have you gone into the 'pad calibration' screen in the Super Monkey Ball options to see what its up to? I've had my pads mis-calibrate slightly more than once (and if there is one game you'll notice it, its SMB), and running the manual calibration has fixed it every time.

[Valiant]

Just out of curiosity, have you gone into the 'pad calibration' screen in the Super Monkey Ball options to see what its up to? I've had my pads mis-calibrate slightly more than once (and if there is one game you'll notice it, its SMB), and running the manual calibration has fixed it every time.

Oh I'll try that. However the pad is totally ****ing up on several different games making them unplayable. Thanks for the tip though.

[superkully]

superkully Posted: Wed Sep 17, 3:45 pm

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I'd say the original Xbox controller is the daddy of them all.

I think it got too much stick just because it looks naff, it is actually the most comfortable off all the controllers (imho) and built like a steel ladle.

You don't happen to have fat american-style fingers by any chance do you?

Seriously, I rank the Xbox controller parallel to the Atari Jaguar controller. I find it a struggle to use and very uncomfortable. Maybe I just have weak fingers but give me a Japanese designed pad any day.

No... I don't think so... I have got a bit of RSI though and it does give much more support to your hand than all the other controllers. The worst for my RSI are the GC and PS2 controllers because they're so small. The most uncomfortable controller I have ever used is the DC one.

[df0notfound]

n64 is the best pad ever in my eyes, ive had 4 ever since the n64 was released over here and they all still work great to this day, and the design of it is utter genius

[2097]

No product can have 100% reliability, you will always get duff units or stuff that doesnt last. With the amount of components, parts and their relative cheapness, games consoles are no exception.

Problems Ive had (with last few generations):

PSX - Disc holder disintergrating, lens dying, memory card slots and controller ports wearing out, death of three memory cards, one memory card on last legs, death of two dual shock controllers (one with the sticks, the other with the "x" button).

PS2 - Console dying completely, failing to read discs, lens getting crappy and only reading CD games when in horizontal position, controller ports wearing out.

Gameboy - plastic going scabby colour, general scratches/wear & tear and one unit dying completely.

SNES - plastic going scabby colour, controller ports wearing out, game cartridge drive wearing out & dust, crashes, death of one controller.

GC, GBA-SP, GB Pocket, GB Colour - No problems so far.

[E. Randy Dupre]

I say we should just be thankful that the days of the Quickshot II Turbo are dead and gone. Lovely microswitched clickety-click every time you moved the stick, broke after about six hours of use. I've no idea how many I managed to get through.

[MD]

If anyone is interested then here is a list of (analogue) joypads replaced at Game On since it started last year (with common fault in bracket)

Gamecube - 9 (Thumb stick not returning to centre, too little travel in one direction)
Playstation 2 (including PS One Analogue Sticks) - 3 (most replaced not because they were broken but because they rattled when shaken...)
Xbox - 5 (Triggers)
Dreamcast - 2 (Fire buttons)
N64 - 1 (Thumb stick not returning to centre)
Saturn - 0

We have more Playstation 2s then Gamecubes (by about double and a half), about the same ammount of Xboxs as Gamecubes (most of the broken Xbox pads came from the 4 Player Halo game....) and a handful of N64s, Dreamcasts and one Saturn Nights Pad....

[Naiera]

now xbox controller s on the other hand

Xbox controllers suck. I know quite a few people, with quite a few consoles and games each, and the Xbox controllers are the first they've ever "destroyed" with nothing more than normal gaming. They've went through Mega Drive, Saturn, PSX and PS2 consoles without controllers braking on them ever before.

[Naiera]

n64 is the best pad ever in my eyes, ive had 4 ever since the n64 was released over here and they all still work great to this day, and the design of it is utter genius

Did you play games on your N64, ever? It's a historical fact that N64 controllers croaked without too much use.