Quote Originally Posted by tofu View Post
To be fair to my retailing and e-commerce clients, preorders will wait until I have an actual arrival date. The factory has confirmed that the first batch is ready for shipment but the harbor has not yet cleared the contents.

I'm aware of the controllers made by Messiah, a friend of mine actually owns a pair. They're great controllers but I would never buy one for myself considering the high price point and lack of compatibility outside of their own system.

RF ain't cheap though and while the lot of you are diehard classic gamers, I have to cater to the more casual crowd, my bosses are not going to spend too much money in development because our retro gaming section is still very small. As a matter of fact, I'm a one man department.

I hope none of you have searched for the Hyperkin 8bit controller because it is downright hideous. I see no real reason to recreate the rectangle original either since those are so widely available. Right now I'm debating a whole new ergonomic oversized design for older gamers, or the original v2.0 dogbone controller.

Some feedback on your ideal NES controllers would be appreciated. I spoke to a few DP members at MGC and I thank them for their insights.
As I understand it, the NES and SNES controllers use the same internal control circuit. There's a simple rewiring mod that will allow a Super NES controller to work on an NES. Just change the cords out.

Theoretically, you could make a standard SNES controller and add a 2nd NES plug to it, which should make it compatible with both systems.

You already have a working RF wireless NES controller for the FC Mobile 2. The trick would be to build a receiver for the console.

One thing that ticks me off about the Messiah controllers is that they're sold 2 per pack. I only need 1.

There could also stand to be retro-type controllers for the previous gen. The Gamecube had Hori's digital controller for the GB Player but it had a super-limited production run. Pelican made their own but it seems to be even rarer. PS2 had the Retrocon(which is supposedly okay) and the Nuby Street Fighter pad, which is excellent. The Xbox had... the Nuby SF pad, which unlike the PS2 version, is rather terrible.

Or possibly adaptors to use old controllers, but they'd need a circuit to adapt the controlelr signals.

I find the standard Gamecube and Xbox controllers suck when playing 2D platorm games, especially stuff such as the old game compilations.