Bad/Weird Looking Controllers (aka Little Brother Controllers)

@“Gaagaagiins”#p66734 yes I hope it came across in my post that I actually love that controller

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@“treefroggy”#p11035 yes this one I have deep and extremely meaningful memories of!!!

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https://twitter.com/GoonPNW/status/1520228506994503680?t=WjLbg3503FehceglYhEa9g&s=19

https://twitter.com/rudeism/status/1520580654827589633

@"seasons"#p68424 There’s video of this being used and I do not comprehend what is happening. I assume it’s just mapping everything to specific inputs but he just sweeps a hand across!

Someone brought all their little brother controllers to goodwill

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looks like the little brother finally overthrew his oppressor

@“Nemoide”#p10788 i had some NOS ones as of last year that felt perfect. no weird sticky feeling. I think it may be sunglight and oxygen that breaks them down?

@“mindleftbody”#p73186 that interact barracuda has hype sneaker energy. balenciaga collab when?


@“Neko”#p73382 Interesting! I assumed they were all sludge.

It might also just be a fluke based on the conditions in the factory when they were made with some being more prone to rapid deterioration and others less so.

I just found out about the cdi roller controller

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I had two older brothers that insisted I use this controller when we played Goldeneye in four player mode. (I still won!)

@“exodus”#p73418 the CDI has so much mouse cursor based stuff that I can see it working well, especially vs the regular infrared controller! I love the colours.

@“hellomrkearns”#p66725

The Avenger controller adapter is similar to a lot of the accessibility mods for controllers. [upl-image-preview url=https://i.imgur.com/wumObqL.jpeg]

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@“exodus”#p8540 Necroquote! The SS Programpad is also terrible. I picked one up in Japan and had to dispense with it. Everything about it is bad, including all the button presses and the dpad. Everything. (Note, it wasn‘t called that. I’m just stealing the nomenclature because I don't remember what it was called."

Here is picture!

Picture!![Picture!](https://segaretro.org/images/1/18/SSProCommander_Saturn.jpg)
https://segaretro.org/SS_Pro_Commander

Here’s a photo of some of my old off-brand controllers I took while rummaging through bins a year or two ago:

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Other than the turbo touch, they’re not that bad! I remember being SO excited to get that stupid thing back in the day because I was utterly convinced I would _finally_ be able to throw a hadouken with some consistency. Needless to say, that didn’t work out (and I _still_ can’t 😭)

That transparent n64 controller wasn’t too terrible, plus you could even swap out the color of that little yellow badge in the middle iirc.

@“docky”#p73448 unfortunately it is NEARLY THE SIZE OF A CDI apparently. it's just huge.

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I feel like handing someone a single joycon with stick drift and without the strap thing is the current little brother controller

@“exodus”#p73483 I went through a pretty intense trackball phase like 10y ago, but could never find the perfect one. At long last, my search may finally be over!

@“穴”#p73484 so I'm my own little brother……….