24th August 2016, 8:36 PM
Wii
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Sonic and the Black Knight - $7, complete - Given its mediocre reputation I'm not expecting this to be great, but most of the Sonic Wii games are fun, so hopefully this one is too.
Xbox 360 Digital Download - The current Xbox 360 Live Games with Gold title is Beyond Good & Evil HD. Yes, I've added it to my library. I might try it too, to see how the port is... better than the bad PC version I hope!
And finally, I've gotten several things from ebay recently, all replacements for things that broke on me. First I got a new N64 DexDrive save backup unit; I got one some time ago but a few years ago ago but my cat destroyed it when she peed on it, sadly enough. it's great to have a working one again. And it does work, I backed up all of my surviving N64 controller paks onto my older computer (which has the serial port you need for this thing).
And second, I got and a (new in box) PDP Versus Fighting Pad for $16, replacing mine that has several bad microswitches. Since this one is new hopefully it lasts a decent while; I imagine it'll eventually fail too, they seem to not have used the best switches here, but it's a fantastic pad with a Neo Geo CD/Pocket-like digital stick and I missed mine since it became unusable some months ago.
On the controllers note, a few months ago my "transforming d-pad" Xbox 360 controller's d-pad snapped off around the central pillar;it seems to be a poor design, and I looked it up and this problem is common. Fortunately you can get replacement new transforming d-pads on ebay for about $5, so that is what I did. Now the controller works fine again.
There are a few more controllers I haven't replaced yet but should, too -- I want a replacement Interact Dual Impact Gamepad, since mine's cable is sliced (I think it was that way when I got it, but the problem got worse and now it doesn't work), and that gamepad is fantastic since it's the only PS1 gamepad with neGcon support as well as regular analog! And neGcon support matters because most racing games on the PS1 support it as their better analog format, which means neGcon modes will have more precise controls on the stick than regular analog mode; I did a thread about this once, a few years ago. And the other thing I'm thinking about is a new PC gamepad, since my Saitek P990's d-pad snapped off; again, I kind of expected this eventually since the P880 I used to have had this happen to it eventually, but it's unfortunate. I really love having a PC gamepad with dual analog and six face buttons, but there hasn't really been a great one since the P880/990 line, which was discontinued several years ago now... so what do I do? Use some probably not very good no-name Chinese controller with 6 buttons? Buy another P990 or the rumble version, the P2600, knowing that its d-pad will eventually break off too since it seems to be a design flaw? Use the controller I have for analog games and something else (my Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad USB, or the PC arcade stick I have) for digital-pad games? That last one is what I'm doing now and it works decently well, but I still would like something else... but I just don't see anything better than these, which is an issue when I'd like something more durable if possible.
The other controller I want is a (Japan-only) Hori EX2 gamepad for the XBox 360, which is a wired, 6-face-button gamepad for the X360. Yeah, I really want that, but sadly they are hard to come by and somewhat pricey so I still don't have one. :( And of course, even though it is wired, it'd be an xinput device on the PC, so that would not be good for older PC games... having to use emulation software for everything is a pain, and doesn't always work perfectly as some of my summaries in the PC Game Opinion Summaries list have shown, for some games that support xinput but won't work with gamepads through the xinput-to-dinput emulation software I have. So yeah, that Hori EX2 would be great for xinput games for sure, and also good on the X360 itself too I imagine. I need to keep trying to get one.
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Sonic and the Black Knight - $7, complete - Given its mediocre reputation I'm not expecting this to be great, but most of the Sonic Wii games are fun, so hopefully this one is too.
Xbox 360 Digital Download - The current Xbox 360 Live Games with Gold title is Beyond Good & Evil HD. Yes, I've added it to my library. I might try it too, to see how the port is... better than the bad PC version I hope!
And finally, I've gotten several things from ebay recently, all replacements for things that broke on me. First I got a new N64 DexDrive save backup unit; I got one some time ago but a few years ago ago but my cat destroyed it when she peed on it, sadly enough. it's great to have a working one again. And it does work, I backed up all of my surviving N64 controller paks onto my older computer (which has the serial port you need for this thing).
And second, I got and a (new in box) PDP Versus Fighting Pad for $16, replacing mine that has several bad microswitches. Since this one is new hopefully it lasts a decent while; I imagine it'll eventually fail too, they seem to not have used the best switches here, but it's a fantastic pad with a Neo Geo CD/Pocket-like digital stick and I missed mine since it became unusable some months ago.
On the controllers note, a few months ago my "transforming d-pad" Xbox 360 controller's d-pad snapped off around the central pillar;it seems to be a poor design, and I looked it up and this problem is common. Fortunately you can get replacement new transforming d-pads on ebay for about $5, so that is what I did. Now the controller works fine again.
There are a few more controllers I haven't replaced yet but should, too -- I want a replacement Interact Dual Impact Gamepad, since mine's cable is sliced (I think it was that way when I got it, but the problem got worse and now it doesn't work), and that gamepad is fantastic since it's the only PS1 gamepad with neGcon support as well as regular analog! And neGcon support matters because most racing games on the PS1 support it as their better analog format, which means neGcon modes will have more precise controls on the stick than regular analog mode; I did a thread about this once, a few years ago. And the other thing I'm thinking about is a new PC gamepad, since my Saitek P990's d-pad snapped off; again, I kind of expected this eventually since the P880 I used to have had this happen to it eventually, but it's unfortunate. I really love having a PC gamepad with dual analog and six face buttons, but there hasn't really been a great one since the P880/990 line, which was discontinued several years ago now... so what do I do? Use some probably not very good no-name Chinese controller with 6 buttons? Buy another P990 or the rumble version, the P2600, knowing that its d-pad will eventually break off too since it seems to be a design flaw? Use the controller I have for analog games and something else (my Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad USB, or the PC arcade stick I have) for digital-pad games? That last one is what I'm doing now and it works decently well, but I still would like something else... but I just don't see anything better than these, which is an issue when I'd like something more durable if possible.
The other controller I want is a (Japan-only) Hori EX2 gamepad for the XBox 360, which is a wired, 6-face-button gamepad for the X360. Yeah, I really want that, but sadly they are hard to come by and somewhat pricey so I still don't have one. :( And of course, even though it is wired, it'd be an xinput device on the PC, so that would not be good for older PC games... having to use emulation software for everything is a pain, and doesn't always work perfectly as some of my summaries in the PC Game Opinion Summaries list have shown, for some games that support xinput but won't work with gamepads through the xinput-to-dinput emulation software I have. So yeah, that Hori EX2 would be great for xinput games for sure, and also good on the X360 itself too I imagine. I need to keep trying to get one.