31st October 2005, 7:34 PM
I have something called the ReCoil. It's the nicest one I've seen personally. Still, it has a few flaws. The inside is super glued together, as I mentioned. The control sticks, while in nice circles (and they still have full square shaped range according to the calibrator), have a dead zone near the center, too large but it's about what I am used to from these things. The biggest flaw is the feature it's name advertises. The controller's cord recoils back into the controller on a spring mounted rotatery drum inside it. Nice, it actually works, except that the connection is lost by the slightest breeze, and opening it up, I can see that the actual recoil feature itself is to blame. I really don't mind wrapping up my cords, but I VERY much mind the controller suddenly disconnecting at pivotal moments in my games.
So yeah, I think I may just pick up a PC XBox controller. Now I'm just waiting for Nintendo to NOT release it's awesome Revolution controller on the computer, but rather for some 3rd party to make one that is up to PC controller standards... sigh...
So yeah, I think I may just pick up a PC XBox controller. Now I'm just waiting for Nintendo to NOT release it's awesome Revolution controller on the computer, but rather for some 3rd party to make one that is up to PC controller standards... sigh...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)