Quote Originally Posted by thom_m View Post
One example I can think of right now is to do bomb jumps much easier in Super Metroid!

That said, a question: I heard/read somewhere that the asciipad (which is licensed by Nintendo, AFAIK) was manufactured at the very same factory the original SNES pads were made - hence the similarities. I can remember which brand manufactured them, though.

EDIT: According to this thread (which I happen to have started and didn't remember!), both pads were made by a company called Mistumi.
Mitsumi, makers of my very first CD burner drive. Thinking back, it might have been the same plastic on the faceplate

According to the wiki article, they're still making Nintendo's controllers to this day!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsumi

Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom controller
Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom controller
Nintendo GameCube controller (Certain revisions only) and the WaveBird wireless controller
Wii Remote and Wii Nunchuk (Certain revisions only)
PlayStation standard and DualShock controllers (Certain revisions only)
PlayStation 2 DualShock 2 controller (Certain revisions only)
Xbox original 'Duke' Controller and early 'Controller S' models