I own two of these and they both work exactly the same; they do work flawlessly with emulators which can detect USB controllers, the controllers look and feel a lot like original SNES controllers, albeit yes the D-pad is a bit on the "hard plastic" and also somewhat "pointy" side of things (thumb fatigue sets in QUICK on these)
My biggest gripe is that they make a lot of games damn-near unplayable because of the HYPER-sensitivity that the D-pad normally has to moving diagonally; trying to play games like Contra where "down" is "duck" and "down+right" is "stand up and run to the right" is basically suicidal; if you are holding down or up and even a HAIR off from "dead on", you're going to get diagonal input...
I took the liberty to dismantle one of my controllers and the internals look "very similar" to stock SNES controllers, with this one big rubber piece between the D-pad plastic and the contact points, though I figure that as it is a cheap knock-off the quality of the materials is not going to be as refined and engineered as what Nintendo actually came up with, thus explaining the hyper-sensitivity: since they are all connected as one single piece of rubber, it stands to reason if the material is cheap then part of the reason is like if you are pressing "down" then the bottom "corner" of the rubber is being pressed down, that also means however that the left and right "corners" are also under tension, and thus even the slightest bit of additional pressure results in it "going over the edge" and resulting in a contact point press.
So, out of pure curiosity, I took it upon myself to completely cut away all of the rubber except for just the circular parts that would fit under each individual direction, then I super glued the part that faces the d-pad itself onto the d-pad itself. Once it dried I gave it a go, and it isn't perfect, but it definitely is a LOT better than when it was all one solid rubber piece... it's kind of a shame that with that little bit of effort I was able to make this controller work better than it did out of the box... like literally no actual time was spent engineering or QA testing this, it's like they just said "do all those pieces more or less look like about the same shape as their original Nintendo counterparts? is that piece that needs to be rubber made out of any kind of rubber? is that piece that's normally hard made out of whatever crappy plastic we have gallons of? plug it in, does it work AT ALL? ok great, copy it 10,000 times!"
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Reviewed in Mexico on August 1, 2017Verified Purchase
Buen control
Reviewed in Mexico on August 1, 2017
El control me llego en buen estado y sellado. Es una buena opción para juegos retro en PC. Enchufe USB. No trae discos de instalación, Funciona solo con conectarlo a la PC, desde luego hay que configurar el Emulador/Programa/Juego para asignar los botones. Es muy ligero, los botones son suaves, a excepción de los gatillos L y R que los sentí un poco duros, pero después de un par de minutos de usarlos se acostumbra uno, no tengo uno original de SNES para compararlos pero me parece un buen control. el diseño del control y la caja son excelentes. el control de cruz le doy un 9.5 ya que de pronto se siente un poco duro pero igual es cosa de acostumbrarse un par de minutos. No podría opinar sobre su durabilidad ya que apenas lo estoy usando.
Reviewed in Mexico on August 1, 2017
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El producto que llega no es el que ofrecen
Reviewed in Mexico on July 14, 2020Verified Purchase
David
From hero to zero !
Reviewed in Canada on December 10, 2015Verified Purchase
From hero to zero !
Reviewed in Canada on December 10, 2015
Bought 1 last year and it was perfect.Reviewed in Canada on December 10, 2015
Rebought one this year 2017, expecting the same controller but no, its not even the same product. The quality is cheaper, the start button is not working all the time.... the plastic is cheap, the L R button are sharp and can cut your finger, the wire is cheap and the connection from the wire to the controller is cheap.
My 2016 controller 9/10
My 2017 controller 1/10 ..
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Jero & Val
Muy buen producto!
Reviewed in Mexico on May 26, 2020Verified Purchase
Eric
Great controller for retro gaming
Reviewed in Canada on January 19, 2017Verified Purchase
