Absolute shit that was hyped by gaming magazines

[Anonymous No.1795128]

This thing is garbage. The d-pad is too stiff, it's noticeably harder to do diagonals and there is no good reason for the little screw in joystick. Did anyone enjoy and actively use this thing? It's the peripheral equivalent of "One Must Fall".

Did Gravis just pay off gaming rags to support this thing? Can someone recommend me a comfy plug n play serial port gamepad for DOS games?

[Anonymous No.1795156]

>>1795128
It was pretty much the only commonly available gameport gamepad in the US at the time.

[Anonymous No.1795195]

The only place I ever saw it was in the Jazz Jackrabbit manual

[Anonymous No.1795225]

It's so..... Bad.

[Anonymous No.1795252]

>>1795225
Stop posting small video game ads like the other thread

[Anonymous No.1795278]

>>1795128
I hated the absolute shit out of my fucking gravis gamepad thank you for vindicating me

[Anonymous No.1795404]

>>1795128
Weren't the threads in the d-pad meant for a joystick?

Either way, the pad still sucks. Ruined my 90's emulation experience.

[Anonymous No.1795418]

Nobody used pads on PC. Steering wheels for racing, joysticks for flight sims, but even the most hectic hotseat multiplayer action games were played by all players hunching over the keyboard.

[Anonymous No.1795751]

>>1795128
Holy fuck I had one of these and it was the worst thing ever. You're right about the shitty d-pad, arguably worse than the 360 pad.

[Anonymous No.1795778]

I firmly believe no one in this thread either used a Gravis gamepad in the 80s, when it was a godsend, or recently when it would require either a retro PC or Mac or CDi.

You're not AVGN nobody thinks it's funny when you ridicule an iconic piece of gaming history.

[Anonymous No.1795782]

>>1795778
gravis gamepad? now that's what i call a SHITLOAD of FUCK!

[Anonymous No.1795818]

Didn't you plug this into the sound card for some reason?

[Anonymous No.1795823]

>>1795818
Yeah gameports were on sound cards. Basically, gaming was the only reason to have a sound card. That or actual music work, and there were midi gameport adapters too.

[Anonymous No.1795827]

>>1795818
Probably, so people could use it in conjunction with Gravis Ultrasound

Including it on a sound card probably solved issues with not having anywhere to put it seeing that people actually used Serial and Parallel ports back then.

[Anonymous No.1795848]

the official nintendo magazine in Australia gave superman 64 a 8/10

[Anonymous No.1795858]

>>1795128
Had one of these just because it came with Megaman X, but it was comfy enough to use. At least until it broke.

[Anonymous No.1795862]

I bought this for £2 free delivery a few months ago and I'm surprised how decent it is. Everything is responsive , it's light as fuck and the dpad is softer and easier to press. Maybe I got lucky.

[Anonymous No.1795863]

>>1795862

Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.1795928]

>>1795128
My dad touted this thing like a motherfucker. I thought it was okay when I was a kid but gamepad support back in the day was horse shit.

Years later I came into a PS1 controller-like USB version with the same sort of d-pad and attachable joystick. I was far less forgiving this time. Awful.

[Anonymous No.1795935]

I attribute my desire to own a Gravis Gamepad entirely to its inclusion in Jazz Jackrabbit. It looked so fucking cool back in da' day.

[Anonymous No.1795937]

>>1795858
My came with super street fighter 2

[Anonymous No.1795942]

Gaming AND computing magazines hyped the fuck out of Intel's MMX processor. I managed to nag my dad to upgrade our computer to a Gateway 2000 with MMX in '97.

It was obsolete by the end of the year when Pentium 2 was announced.

[Anonymous No.1796012]

>>1795128
its big bro was also hyped. was it also shit?

[Anonymous No.1796068]

back in the day, the gravis gamepad was the shit. I do not remember any other options aside from flight sim stick style joysticks.

[Anonymous No.1796084]

>>1796012
Ok, I can understand the screwhole on the older gravis gamepad, but here with the handle, using a joystikc must be horrible. I never tried it though.

Anyway, why not use a modern controller and emulate an old ass controller? Somthing like the PS4 controller of the Wii U pro controller are pretty ace for old 2D games.

They don't have the retro flavor, but they have great dpad and buttons.

Anyway, here was my controller during the 90s, I used it mainly to play consoles games on emulator, good times. It's named Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad and it rocks.

[Anonymous No.1796227]

>>1796012
>>1796084
I've been through 15 or so gamepads and this is one of them. Like most other PC game pads, the d-pad is truly terrible with accuracy. The stick also has a habit of breaking off inside the screw hole.

[Anonymous No.1796481]

driver 3

[Anonymous No.1797309]

>>1796012
Half-Decent. Got two of them, both for cheap fairly recently. The textures of the buttons and d-pad need getting used to, but they're responsive. The usb ones work on android, which is cool

[Anonymous No.1797338]

>>1795778
>I firmly believe things I have absolutely no way of knowing.
Seems legit.

[Anonymous No.1797374]

>>1795778
You're absolutely right! No one in this thread, or anyone on planet earth, used the Gravis gamepad in the 1980s...

...because it wasn't even available until the 1990s!

Now fuck off back to your cave, troll.

[Anonymous No.1797386]

>>1795128
I liked my Gravis. I played through all of Rayman on it.

[Anonymous No.1797440]

>>1795418

You also used joysticks for old platform games that's why I bought a usb joystick.

[Anonymous No.1797601]

>>1795778
I knew like two people who had this controller and nobody used it because it wasn't even compatible with most shit we tried it for.

[Anonymous No.1800649]

saved

[Anonymous No.1800701]

>>1796084
I had (actually still have) the more stripped down version of this. I actually wanted the one on your post, but I was poor and had barely scrounged up enough to get this one. I used it for emulation as well, but as you can see, it only has four face buttons plus two triggers on the back, so I had to map Start and Select on the keyboard. And yes, the D-pad was shit.

Later on I just got a PS2 to USB adapter, and used my PS2 controller for emulation and Maple Story for many years. In fact, I'm still using the very same adapter even now.

[Anonymous No.1801884]

>spending money to use 16-bit era gamepads on PC
>they're all garbage
>you've already got a top tier controller at your desk

Just use your fucking keyboard.

[Anonymous No.1801895]

>>1801884
>using a keyboard for platformers
I never had a USB controller until recently, so I had no choice but to get good with a keyboard, but a good controller just beats it out in some cases.

[Anonymous No.1801904]

>>1801895
>good controller just beats it

Maybe if analog controls are involved, yeah.

[Anonymous No.1801914]

>>1801904
Nah man. Super Metroid just ain't the same without a proper d-pad.

[Anonymous No.1801919]

>>1795818
Lots of sound cards had game ports built-in, because they commonly were bought together anyway.

In the _really_ old days, you often found separate Kraft Gameport cards. This is what I had in my first PC clone.

[Anonymous No.1801929]

>>1796012
>>1797309
The USB ones WORK, which is cool. I had this pile of shit and it was damn near impossible to make the awful drivers work consistently. There were a million different incompatible standards for sending serial data back on the gameport, and this used its own special flavor of nonsense. Also I always wanted the GRiP multiport and could never find one.

PC gamers recently don't appreciate how fucking horrible it was trying to get one good gamepad - let alone 4 - on your machine back then. When the original Xbox launched (well, when it launched in Japan) with a half-decent USB gamepad, everything changed.

[Anonymous No.1802083]

>>1801884
Keyboard ghosting problems aside, pretty much this. There's no better precision than letting each of your 10 fingers in charge of a button or two.

[Anonymous No.1802616]

>>1796084
This controller's a piece of shit in the DPad department though.

[Anonymous No.1802856]

>>1802616
>There never will be another six face button controller ever again.

Man, it just doesn't feel right playing Sega Games without the three face buttons.

[Anonymous No.1802880]

>>1802856
There were several fighting game pads sold that mimicked the Saturn layout, some with floating d-pads and others with microswitched d-pads. You could try to find one of those.

[Anonymous No.1802905]

>>1802880
Yeah, but those are designed to be held with one hand, and the face to be used with your fingers, not thumb.

[Anonymous No.1802919]

>>1802905
Then get a Saturn controller and an adapter.
I bought a cheap Saturn controller, gave it a good cleaning and it was good as new.

[Anonymous No.1802925]

I always liked my Gravis as a kid. Then again, I don't think I realized there were alternatives available. It was the only PC gamepad I was aware of.

Mostly just used it to play stuff on NESticle. Few PC games had native gamepad support or controlled like ass with them. Not a lot you can do with a dpad and four buttons except play NES games.

[Anonymous No.1802929]

>>1796012
I had some cheap Chinese clone of this. Worked as well as any other gamepad. I never use gamepads now.

Stickless stick/hitbox > arcade stick > keyboard > gamepad

[Anonymous No.1804571]

>>1802083
>ghosting problems

You can have NKRO with PS/2.

[Anonymous No.1804592]

Couldn't disagree more. I love the old Gravis pad and I still use it to this day, mini-joystick and all.

[Anonymous No.1804771]

>>1804592
Why the fuck do you have so many fucking controllers

[Anonymous No.1804804]

>>1804771
Well, I collect controllers.

[Anonymous No.1804824]

>>1804771

>don't having 10 friends to play DOS games with at same time

It's absolutely necessary.

[Anonymous No.1804838]

>>1804824
what games can even support that?
what motherboard could even support that?

[Anonymous No.1804842]

>>1804824
I wish I had 10 friends that even knew what a DOS game was, let alone want to play one.
...Or 10 friends, for that matter.

what the fuck am I doing with my life?

[Anonymous No.1804848]

>>1804838
Networked Doom deathmatch? I only ever played co-op, but it seems like it could be possible.

[Anonymous No.1804852]

>>1804848
I would not want to set that network up

[Anonymous No.1805028]

>>1804824
>not having everyone play on the same keyboard

It's like you don't even want to laugh

[Anonymous No.1805080]

just got both of these for my birthday. so far, the (not) ps1 controller is the best pc gamepad i've ever owned, not saying much.

Also, just passed up a sealed in the box 2 button pc mission joystick for $6 at the local goodwill, will i be kicking myself later? i already kind of am.

[Anonymous No.1805117]

>>1804838
Someone hasn't been taking their daily dose of Achtung, die Kurve!
(Although it's only up to six players, not ten)

[Anonymous No.1805136]

>>1805080
>pc mission joystick
One of these? They're absolute shit. Not particularly comfortable to hold, and the stick is way too fucking sensitive.

[Anonymous No.1805668]

>>1795862
i got on two for roughtly $2.50 AUD and its been fantastic only problem is that it only works with zsnes for me

[Anonymous No.1805941]

>>1805080
I have that keyboard. It's pretty shit.