/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1661254]

What do you prefer, the NA purple/pink-grey scheme or the M&M colors of the PAL/SF controller?

[Anonymous No.1661256]

Definitely gray and purple.

Part of my brain feels like it's "sturdier" than the colored plastic.

[Anonymous No.1661257]

>>1661254
purple/blue
When I was a kid a lot of my friends had the colorful ones and at the time I thought they were cool, now i'm glad I have the blue ones.

[Anonymous No.1661264]

I like the NA scheme more simply because two of the buttons are are concave. I've always been surprised that this button idea didn't catch on. More colors in the buttons are better than less though.

[Anonymous No.1661268]

The one that's color coded for my convenience.

[Anonymous No.1661274]

Something about the purple just feels righteous to me. It screams 90s, like Welch's grape juice girl.

[Anonymous No.1661276]

The NA one, I think the multicolored buttons stand out too much.

[Anonymous No.1661291]

SF, more colors makes each button feel more unique. NA just looks dull to me.

[Anonymous No.1661306]

>>1661256
>Part of my brain feels like it's "sturdier" than the colored plastic.

Because if you saw colored buttons like that on a controller here in the US, it meant you were looking at a 3rd party piece of shit. I certainly knew my share of shitty 3rd party controllers with the rainbow buttons.

>>1661264
>I like the NA scheme more simply because two of the buttons are are concave.

I agree that buttons that are distinct in touch should very much be a thing. I'm glad we got the controller we did, I'm never looking down at the buttons when I'm playing anyway.

[Anonymous No.1661351]

The colors, Duke! The colors!

[Anonymous No.1661405]

>>1661306
It could be an import.

[Anonymous No.1661442]

I don't care about the colors but I'd rather have the concave X and Y buttons from the NA version.

[Anonymous No.1661454]

>>1661351
I'm color blind kid

[Anonymous No.1661513]

>>1661442
On the nose.

[Anonymous No.1661552]

BOTH

[Anonymous No.1661563]

The colors are very nice but like several people have already said, concave buttons are more important.

[Anonymous No.1661581]

>>1661306
>I agree that buttons that are distinct in touch should very much be a thing. I'm glad we got the controller we did, I'm never looking down at the buttons when I'm playing anyway.
Buttons already feel different by virtue of where they are on the controller. Kinesthesis is a thing, and most of the time you probably have your thumb over the bottom button and slightly touching the left button, regardless what controller you're using.
I don't see how concavity adds anything useful here. Is your thumb really getting lost on the face buttons?

What I don't understand is why controllers do this ABXY shit (which has different layouts on different controllers), or shape shit, which forces you to look at the controller whenever there's a button prompt unless you are real familiar with the controller.
Colors are mostly supplementary so I don't dislike them, but they also aren't useful in the slightest unless, again, you are real familiar with the controller. Also, just like with ABXY, the colors are changed around on different controllers. It's like the more games you play the less useful and more confusing this shit gets.
The C buttons on the N64 controller had the right idea. They were just fucking arrows. Yellow up arrow on screen? You immediately know it's the top button. Yellow left arrow on screen? You immediately know it's the left button. So simple and intuitive. Why the fuck are we still using letters and shapes like cavemen?

[Anonymous No.1661645]

>>1661254
I live in America and I have one of those 'superpad' colored controllers and the standard purple/gray one.

The standard one with my SNES has a caved in L button and the "shitty" 3rd party superpad is still 100% fine

[Anonymous No.1661648]

American SNES is my favorite-looking console of all time.

Tell me I am not alone in this.

[Anonymous No.1661653]

>grey cause it's more serious!
>obviously gray because... uh.. USA! USA! USA!
Wonder what the opinion of a sensible unbiased person would be like.

[Anonymous No.1661654]

I like the NA since they look like Parma violets.

[Anonymous No.1661667]

Grey and blue is boring, whereas the SNES is known for using so many good colours. Has to be the colourful buttons.

[Anonymous No.1661687]

>>1661648
you're not alone.

[Anonymous No.1661702]

>>1661268
>Looking at the button you're about to press

Git gud

[Anonymous No.1661716]

PAL/SF because that's what I grew up with. Simple as that.

[Anonymous No.1661719]

>>1661702
It's useful when you're playing with people who haven't gotten good.

[Anonymous No.1661782]

>all these people preferring gray and purple
Either you are incredibly biased or just absolutely out of your minds. Why would you ever take gray over colors?
>sleeker design
It's a video game console, not a piece of fucking furniture.

I never had a SNES but if I ever had one and it would be up to me, it would be the one with the colors.

[Anonymous No.1661810]

>>1661782
>all these people preferring gray and purple
>Why would you ever take gray over colors?

Because they're all probably American that's why. I go PAL every time, because I grew up with a pal snes and think the purple one looks like boring muted shit, or parma violet swizzles.

I'm not a fan of the concave buttons though, so mechanically I also prefer PAL. But I honestly see nothing other than nostaliga for you guys who prefer the US Snes system design, it looks fucking terrible, the curved jp/pal versions are so much nicer.

I think the big thing is the NA snes looks less kiddy and less like a "toy". The jp/pal obviously looks like a kids plaything. and some people are not okay with their toys looking like toys because they're insecure manchildren

[Anonymous No.1661815]

I prefer the gray and purples. The whole North American hardware is just so pleasing aesthetically, right down to the shapes of the console and cartridges.

[Anonymous No.1661820]

>>1661810
>parma violet swizzles


I mean seriously, they're basically the same colour and even concave and the same size.

[Anonymous No.1661823]

>>1661442
I have a USB SNES controller where all of the buttons are concave.

[Anonymous No.1661827]

>>1661653
Oh for fucks sake, why are you so hateful? You and your shitty attitude can go sit on a cactus,

[Anonymous No.1661832]

>>1661782
>>1661810
I hadn't seen either console until internet became a thing because console gaming wasn't very popular over here before Playstation came around and I think SuFami / PAL looks so much better that it isn't even funny.

[Anonymous No.1661843]

Will PAL controllers work on a US SNES console?

[Anonymous No.1661968]

>>1661648
>>1661687

Bad taste.
Absolutely Wario

[Anonymous No.1661972]

>>1661843

If they have a same plug, then they should I guess.

[Anonymous No.1661980]

Gray and purple because according to Kirby's Fun Pak there isn't any other kind. No one argues with Kirby or his games.

[Anonymous No.1661989]

>>1661843
I have both PAL and US SNESses and have used both varieties of controllers with both of them with no problems.

[Anonymous No.1661992]

Super Famicom. I greatly prefer the look of the console too. The Super Nintendo has always looked cheap to me.

[Anonymous No.1662060]

>>1661405
Odds would extremely low for that, especially in the 90s.

[Anonymous No.1662071]

>>1661268
Autismpuzzle.bat

[Anonymous No.1662073]

>>1661820
Strangely enough, we have a candy just like your parma violet smibbly bibblies but they come in (muted) rainbow colors.

[Anonymous No.1662074]

>>1661645
>this kid in charge of taking care of his shit

[Anonymous No.1662076]

>>1661810
>I go PAL every time

How are the inferior games treating you?

[Anonymous No.1662095]

PAL colors with NA concavity.

[Anonymous No.1662097]

>>1662073

Those are rockets, not smarties.

[Anonymous No.1662134]

>>1661581
agreed. Nintendo was on the ball with the 64 and the GC controllers. They recognized that over-complicated controllers like the dualshock could be conquered for newcomers by making a very distinct feeling for every input, which demonstrates why everything on the GC pad is so specialized. Of course, the PS and PS2 had all the games and all the sales, and now everything copies what they did, so everyone's controllers do the same thing in multiple different ways. Hooray for stupid pads!

[Anonymous No.1662145]

>>1661254
I grew up with concave and purple, so I'll stick with that. It's not as if I love one and hate the other, they're just controllers after all.

[Anonymous No.1662150]

>>1662097
Do they make poutine flavor?

[Anonymous No.1662208]

I'm American and I had the multi-colored controller.

[Anonymous No.1662263]

Neither. Go with a 3rd party controller like the glorious SN Propad.
In any case, the buttons being coloured was better, because some games specifically referred to those colours for puzzles and shit. So if you were using the NA one, you were fucked.

[Anonymous No.1662457]

I like both color schemes. Gray and purple is subtle, but colors just seems fun to me. Looks like candy.

That being said, I prefer the sleeker, smaller SNES 2. Easier to clean too.

I want a PAL controller so badly, though...

[Anonymous No.1662498]

>>1661254
I so much prefer the colored ones. It was so much easier as a kid to tell each others "it's the yellow button" or something like that, and it was much prettier anyway.

The NA SNES seems like it was just designed so people wouldn't go "ew, colors, that's for babies".

[Anonymous No.1662543]

>>1662498
being from the PAL region, i prefer the colors. The concave feel just is wrong to me.

[WKZworks No.1662554]

>>1661254
I think it would've looked better in black, but to answer your question, the JP looks more....fun to me.

[Anonymous No.1662562]

>>1662543
when have you ever played with an NTSC controller? Although the colors are nice those concave buttons feel amazing

[Anonymous No.1662565]

>>1662562
I own an NTSC SNES for those hard to get games.

[Anonymous No.1662606]

PAL/SF no question
It's also got the color of the official snes logo

[Anonymous No.1662627]

I grew up with the purple one but I think the colored buttons are better looking. Plus a few SNES games actually reference the colors on the controller and they don't make sense if you're not using a Famicom.

[Anonymous No.1662643]

Obviously colour.

[Anonymous No.1662650]

>>1661254
Grew up with the colored one so that's it.

Even looking at it now it still looks better.

[Anonymous No.1662657]

>>1661254
Grey purple, except for dkc3

[Anonymous No.1662658]

pal/jp one.

USA SNES has to be one of the ugliest consoles ever.

[Anonymous No.1662660]

I don't have a color preference between the two, but I really don't like the concave X and Y buttons on the US controller.

[Anonymous No.1662665]

>>1661264
I agree, love the concaveness. I really like the color scheme of the american version too. I like the european idea of having every button a different color, but the bright colors they chose don't really look good against the grey.

[Anonymous No.1662782]

>>1662658
I don't think it's that ugly, but I was sure shocked when I first saw one and someone called it a SNES.

[Anonymous No.1662838]

>>1661972
>>1661989
Thanks.

Weird though, because I'd heard SNES(U)/SFC controllers didn't work with PAL consoles because of a hardware lock Nintendo integrated. Only the inverse is relevant to me though, so I suppose it doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.1662850]

>>1662073
>smarties

damnit america

m&m's > Smarties just to clarify

[Anonymous No.1662873]

This seems like a good place to start an argument over the pronunciation of "SNES"

Is it "Ess-en-ee-ess" like a rational sane person or are you a faggot who calls it the "Snezz" like you're wiping the goop out of your nose, you uncultured swine?

[Anonymous No.1662883]

>>1662873
S.N.E.S.
Always. In fact, I've never heard ANYONE call it a "sness."

[Anonymous No.1662886]

>>1662873
"Super Nintendo."

I don't even recall anyone saying S-N-E-S let alone 'Snes" in the period when it was current.

[Anonymous No.1662893]

>>1662873
We always called them Nintendo and Super Nintendo. We did use N64 instead of Nintendo 64, though.

[Anonymous No.1662916]

>>1662873
Sness

I don't know why this is odd to some people considering Ness from Earthbound and Nester from Nintendo Power.

[Anonymous No.1662921]

>>1662873
Super Nintendo, always

[Anonymous No.1662935]

>>1662916
Nintendo Power told me to call my cartridges 'Game Paks' but I sure wasn't doing that.

[Anonymous No.1662943]

>>1661581
>What I don't understand is why controllers do this ABXY shit (which has different layouts on different controllers), or shape shit, which forces you to look at the controller whenever there's a button prompt unless you are real familiar with the controller.
This forever.

[Anonymous No.1663106]

>>1661254
supah nintendo

[Anonymous No.1663112]

>>1661653
both are grey you retard

[Anonymous No.1663121]

>>1661254
This may not be the best /vr/ thread ever, but at least it's something different; I'll give you that.

[Anonymous No.1663123]

SFC/Pal

I don't even like concave buttons. Just gives me blisters after some serious action. I have some painful memories about the NES controller.

[Anonymous No.1663128]

>>1662076
we're talking console aesthetics. Games and how they play has nothing to do with it? I know you're american but come on, you do understand words right?

[Anonymous No.1663134]

Best SNES controller right here.

[Anonymous No.1663137]

>>1662073
Just for reference anon. They're basically M&M's. But better. Sort of.

[Anonymous No.1663215]

>>1663134

That's not an asciipad.

[Anonymous No.1663276]

>>1663137
I've actually had them. They feel like dollar store ripoff candy with less chocolate than M&Ms.

We made a better candy with your name.

[Anonymous No.1663387]

>>1663276
you mean those dollar store knockoffs of Refreshers? Better than the Chocolate Smarties? Hardly.

Although ever bulk store I go to now has these "Chocolate Beans" which are actual cheap tasting knockoffs of M&Ms/Smarties and the chocolate is fucking terrible. Like old holiday chocolate, coins/bells/hearts and shit,

[Anonymous No.1663431]

>>1663387
>fizzy sweets
Closest thing I can think of as an American variant would be Bottle Caps.
American Smarties don't fizz and are just candy powder compressed into a capsule shape. Basically non-medicated antacid tablets.

They're also pretty good.

[Anonymous No.1663463]

>>1663431
>They're also pretty good.
They start off tart, but that melts away into a cool and mellow sweetness.

[Anonymous No.1663558]

I like the PAL controller with the NTSC model

[Anonymous No.1663675]

>>1662554

[Anonymous No.1663685]

>>1662873
>In conversation, refer to it as "Super Nintendo" first, then "Super NES" afterwards
>Do the same in text
>No confusion between speakers

[Anonymous No.1663686]

>>1662916
Do you always listen to everything Nintendo Power told you? Pic related.

Super Nintendo > S.N.E.S >>>> Anything else

"Snesss" is not acceptable. It even sounds disgusting

[Anonymous No.1663692]

>>1663675
>Black
>Automatically edgy

Holy shit do we /v/ now ?

[Anonymous No.1663717]

>>1662873

Super Nintendo as a kid or when casually referencing it. SNES pronounced Ess-en-ee-es is what I use now. And "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" is such a mouthfull, and it makes you sound like a tool.

[Anonymous No.1663735]

>>1662873
As a kid who just called the SNES super nintendo, Pokemon confused me because I had no idea what a "snezz" was.

[Anonymous No.1663885]

>>1662893
Yeah same. Occasionally I'll refer to my Nintendo as an "N.E.S" but with my Super Famicom, It's always Super Famicom or Super Nintendo. I cut the cart slot to accommodate US games, and I mostly have US games so in most cases I just call it a Super Nintendo.

One of my friends I met last year refers to them as "sness" and he was the first person I ever heard say that, and I kinda wanted to slap the shit out of him tbh. It really irritates me but I never say anything about it.

Anyway, on the topic of the controller colors, I'm not sure why everyone keeps calling the NA ones "grey and blue". It looks like lavender and purple to me, but I'm a graphic designer so I guess I'm much more picky about what colors are called.

I've got 2 JP ones, and 2 NA ones. Fuck the JP ones though, the cables are way too short. I have no color preference, however I love the concave buttons.

Here's my personal controller though, all the buttons are concave, and I swapped the innards out so it'd be the long NA cable, but with the Super Famicom shell.

[Anonymous No.1663990]

>>1663686
The correct pronunciation is ess-ness

[Anonymous No.1664236]

>>1663685
That doesn't work because you could still say "En-ee-ess" or "Nezz" like a sperg

[Anonymous No.1664263]

>>1662886
>not referring to NES as "Normal Nintendo"

[Anonymous No.1664357]

>>1663885
>B is red
>A is yellow

what is this bizarro device? D:

[Anonymous No.1664443]

>>1664263
>Calling NES "Normal Nintendo" Instead of "Regular Nintendo"

[Anonymous No.1664473]

The colored ones. It's really just the way it was intended.

[Anonymous No.1664478]

What's the difference?
I'm colorblind.

[Anonymous No.1664484]

The multi-color buttons remind me of spree candy while the other ones remind me of sweet tarts. I like sweet tarts more so I prefer the bottom controller.

I also like concave buttons.

[Anonymous No.1664553]

>>1664357
There is no red or yellow buttons in that picture anon. I think you may be color blind.

[Anonymous No.1664702]

>>1664443
>>1664263

>normal
>regular
>not calling it the "Nintendo One"

[Anonymous No.1664731]

>>1664702
>Nintendo One
>implying it isnt the NEX

[Anonymous No.1664749]

4 colors for me because it's the real thing.

The american one looks like a chinese knockoff.
Never understood the american re-design.
Maybe it's to spite the japanese.

"Hurr, we americans don't like your flimsy colorful and round jap design.
That's why our american Nintendo is boxy and dull and manly!"

[Anonymous No.1664757]

>>1664702
>calling an NES anything other than NES

[Anonymous No.1664760]

>not owning both

I expected more out of you, /vr/.

[Anonymous No.1664765]

>>1664757
>NES

Do you pronounce it like "AnyAss" or "Ness"?

[Anonymous No.1664781]

>>1664765
Not him, but the correct and only way is "EnnNeeEss".

[Anonymous No.1664912]

>>1663134
First controller I ever owned. The L button was worn and it had holes in the plastic since the day I got it. Always get nostalgic seeing these.
>>1663215
have one of these two. My personal fave SNES pad.

[Anonymous No.1665053]

>>1663215
>>1664912
Why is it good?

[Anonymous No.1665059]

>>1665053
>it's not
3rd party controllers are always subpar with to the original

[Anonymous No.1665245]

Super Famicom version. It actually looks cool, and I wont pretend that there is some benefit to having two completely different face button curvature methods plaguing one controller.

But what really bothers me, when I open the US controller, is that the mold references BOTH sets colors in detail. Someone went out of their ways, to make this shit boring.

[Anonymous No.1665254]

NA looks more professional.

[Anonymous No.1665278]

I don't get people saying the NA one isn't colorful; it's purple and lavender, not gunmetal and steel. The purple even extends to the console's buttons.

[Anonymous No.1665287]

Maybe this was already covered, maybe not?

I bought the M&M looking control sometime ago. The cord length on them (J version) are REALLY short compared to the NA version. I'm guessing this has to do with when back in the day where the Jap's would have the console closer to them when they played where as NA promoted keeping the console far from you.

Did a body swap on them so that I could the best of both worlds.

As for concave or convex buttons, makes no difference to me. So in the end it's about aesthetics followed by cord length.

>>1665053
It was a great controller because it had the auto fire and rapid fire option for each button. But more importantly, it felt and reacted like a legit SNES controller. ASCII made great third party hardware.


On another note, been thinking of getting pic related for RPG purposes. Seems perfect.

[Anonymous No.1665343]

>>1664765
I pronounce it Nintendo Entertainment System.

[Anonymous No.1665347]

>>1665254
It looks like a professional, cheap chinese knockoff.

[Anonymous No.1665358]

>>1665347
In reality, the third party knockoffs all had your colored buttons.

[Anonymous No.1665361]

>>1665059
99% of the time i would agree, but the ascii pad was flawless

[Anonymous No.1665370]

>>1665347
We'll just agree to disagree.
The colored controller makes it look more for children. Everything down to the label is more professional on the na version imo.

And to the guy who said he doesn't get what makes the concave buttons superior. It's not the fact that them being concave gives them an edge. It's that the one's that aren't concave feel weird af.

[Anonymous No.1665624]

>>1662074
I grew up with an older brother and sister. I only just now found the broken original controller.

[Anonymous No.1665692]

>>1665370
>Everything down to the label is more professional on the na version imo.
Define "professional looking," please. The PAL/SF version has a more unique font that is associated with electronics and Sci-Fi, while the NA has a super-boring Helvatica-esque font throughout like a graphic designer's first project. PAL/SF's font is till perfectly legible, and the letters for the buttons aren't compressed like the NA version, which makes absolutely zero fucking sense - there's no reason to use compressed lettering there, there is plenty of space. There's also great contrast on the PAL/SF controller, for greater readability. Hell, the NA version doesn't even feature the official font used for the Nintendo name, or the logo. The only chance that doesn't seem daft on it is the coloring of the buttons as pairs rather than all being different colors, but even then the PAL/SF has it covered as the top group is cool colors and the bottom is warm.

Not saying the NA is terrible, but I am gonna go ahead and say they sucked all the character out of it and made it look bland and generic.

[Anonymous No.1665701]

>>1661351
popsicle zone mah nigga

[Anonymous No.1665702]

>>1665692
the levels that people are going to in defense of the look of their home region's super nintendo controllers is fucking incredible in this thread.

[Anonymous No.1665745]

>>1665702
NA is my home region, so, you know, nice try.