/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5351739]

>wire on the wrong side
What the fuck were they thinking?

[Anonymous No.5351743]

Shhh, it's thinking.

[Anonymous No.5351745]

It's because the top half of the controller is dedicated the VMU slot. There's a little clip in the back of the controller that you can put the cord in to make it face upward.

[Anonymous No.5351916]

>wire on the wrong side
What the fuck were they thinking?

[Anonymous No.5351920]

>>5351745
/thread
and you can strap it with duct tape or something to make sure it doesn't fall off

[Anonymous No.5351928]

>>5351739
You can clip the cord to the top-underside of the controller you knob.

[Anonymous No.5351962]

>>5351928
>promoting cable bending
fuck Sega

[Anonymous No.5351969]

>removable cable
For what purpose?

[Anonymous No.5351970]

>>5351969
Easier to untangle the cords.

[Anonymous No.5352001]

>>5351969
To affix a bluetooth adapter decades later.

[Anonymous No.5352003]

>>5351962
Give the cord like half an inch of slack and it won't bend jack shit.

[Anonymous No.5352131]

>>5351739
Stop whining.

[Anonymous No.5352214]

>>5352131
I owned a DC for years and never thought of doing this. Did the wire coming out from the bottom really bother people that much?

[Anonymous No.5352216]

>>5352214
People pretend it did. I had a blue controller that has a mark on the wire from being in the wire holder a lot. If you look at DC controllers almost no controllers have that mark because no one actually cared. OP just wanted to waste space like usual.

[Anonymous No.5352256]

>>5351970
No.
>>5352001
There were plans to introduce modular accessories which sadly never came to fruition. See patent US7488254.

[Anonymous No.5352279]

>>5351739
> Sega
> thinking
Lmao

[Anonymous No.5352346]

>>5351739
>cord on the wrong end of the controller with a groove probably added in at the last second as if realizing it was a retarded design flaw
>hard plastic thumbstick and only a single one when dualshocks were already a thing by 1998
>terrible analog triggers
>fucking awful controller to use for fightan games when it was the console that had the GOAT fightan games

I mean I still love the Dreamcast thanks to the ASCII controller saving its ass, but holy fuck did it have one of the worst controllers ever. What makes this doubly embarrassing is that this coming right after the Saturn controller, the greatest 2-D oriented controller ever made.

[Anonymous No.5352359]

>>5352346
>fucking awful controller to use for fightan games when it was the console that had the GOAT fightan games
BAZINGA!

[Anonymous No.5352392]

If you hold the controller vertically, is not a problem.

[Anonymous No.5352538]

>>5352359
That thing is fucking sick. I have pic related but it's nothing special desu. I don't like how the stick feels.

[Anonymous No.5352553]

>>5352392
yea. it's even better if you hold it upside down. people defending this shit really are desperate. i had the dreamcast and liked it, but it's horrible design

[Anonymous No.5352698]

>>5352346
DC was 98 though.
I actually enjoyed the analog stick, especially for Soulcalibur which felt perfect. The triggers and dpad were painful after a while though

[Anonymous No.5352745]

>>5351916
The pause button being on the fucking console is way more egregious.

[Anonymous No.5352758]

Only objectively thing wrong with the DC controller was removing 2 buttons for no reason. Everything else is just nit-picking.

[Anonymous No.5352764]

>>5352758
I find the 4 buttons spacing to be much bigger than it needs to be.

[Anonymous No.5352794]

>>5352758
Try playing Third Strike with a DC controller and you'll see who is nit-picking.

[Anonymous No.5352859]

>>5352745
>those kids that missed that button
>they missed the menu option on Alex Kidd

>>5352758
This is true. After the 6 face button controllers for the MD and Saturn it was awkward, same as that dpad.

>>5352794
That was painful.

[Anonymous No.5353886]

>>5351745
>>5351928
>>5351920
>>5352131
>that tiny as fuck radius
"how to kill a controller-cable in three simple steps"

[Anonymous No.5353998]

>>5353886
It's not flexing back and forth so it won't cause undue fatigue damage.

[Anonymous No.5354039]

>>5352214
>never thought of doing this
...but that's what it's for. that's how you're supposed to do it. did you play power stone with your back to the tv?

[Anonymous No.5355769]

>>5351969
So you could attach all kinds of crazy shit to it https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:Patent_US7488254.pdf&page=15

[Anonymous No.5355776]

>>5351969
god I love that controller

[Anonymous No.5355805]

>not playing hanging upside down from a bar with your legs like a monkey
casuals

[Anonymous No.5355832]

>>5353886
Splice the fucker and resolder.

[Anonymous No.5355949]

>>5352131
[Slips off in your path]

[Anonymous No.5355976]

>>5351969
to store it easier you dumb fuck

[Anonymous No.5356019]

>>5355976
>To lose it easier
ftfydf

[Not Steve No.5356098]

>>5351739
How does the glue taste, brainlet?

[Anonymous No.5357178]

>>5352346
>>fucking awful controller to use for fightan games
It's very rough on your thumb, but the DC d-pad is actually very good and precise for fighters. A lot of players at the time used it over 3rd party alternatives.

[Anonymous No.5357404]

>>5351739
Nothing wrong with it, just put the wire in the notch in the underside of the controller to get it facing forward.

[Anonymous No.5358304]

>>5357404
>posting shit before reading the thread

[Anonymous No.5358370]

What were they thinking?

[world's worst shitposter No.5359682]

>>5351739
Just be glad that wire placement is the biggest complaint about the controller.

>>5351745
And they couldn't have put the VMU slots on the bottom of the controller because...?

[Anonymous No.5360037]

>>5358370
Wii Classic Controller was the fuckin' shit, shut ya whore mouth.

[Anonymous No.5360306]

>>5358370
Wouldn't have been better if it had a cradle to stick the Wiimote so you won't have to deal with a cable, or if it's gonna have a cable, why not just make it plug into the GC controller ports?

[Anonymous No.5360316]

>>5358370
Wiimote + nunchuk/expandability already conceptualized.
Wiimote has internal memory (for smash settings. and Miis. Almost never used for anything else.)
Instead of adding another wireless component, memory, and battery compartment, leach off of the wiimote instead.

Idk why so many people complain about the cable, it's such a non-issue. Put it on the floor or on the couch next to you.

[Anonymous No.5360321]

>>5358370
I just put the wiimote in my pocket while using the pro controller. Didn't bother me any.

[Anonymous No.5360340]

>>5359682
to make sure people didn't accidentally drop their VMUs

[Anonymous No.5360346]

>>5358370
this makes sense. the controller is connected to the Wiimote, which would be on, or near, your person. it doesn't connect to the system, so the cable points to you, not the system

[Anonymous No.5360347]

>>5360306
that would defeat the entire concept of being a wireless game system. it would be practical, but it ruins the image

[Anonymous No.5360381]

>>5351739
This never bothered me.
>>5351916
This either.

[Anonymous No.5360395]

>>5351916
My famicom controllers are like this. If anything it makes them easier to hold.

[Anonymous No.5360520]

>>5352538
It feels legit anon. I have one that I use regularly.

[Anonymous No.5360834]

>>5358370
last ninty-controller with analog triggers, innit?

[Anonymous No.5361094]

>>5352758
I never understood, too.
Prototype for DC have 6 face buttons.

[Anonymous No.5361104]

>>5361094
And strart work on the Nights-Pad.