Show us the most strange and unique controllers you own or have seen!
I’ll throw up a new weirdo every day.
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Tevion Universal Game Controller HY-863. It may look like a normal controller but the right analog is not a stick, it is an analog half-sphere. It is not a trackball, it functions the same as a stick without the stick part. It has connectors for PC, OG Xbox and Playstation 2.
Tevion (sometimes named Medion) also released the MD85175 which is the same deal but wireless.
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200 Toy’s Double Tremor is a controller with two analog half-spheres for the Playstation. I found a review on Wayback Machine. [Review] Double Tremor Controller for PlayStation and PlayStation 2 (PS1 and PS2) — Game Controller Reviews
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Rockfire Space Ranger QF-307U for PC. It has a microswitch dpad nub very similar to the NeoGeo controller. I own this so any questions are welcome.
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My first computer as a student was a Medion! Analog spheres are wild.
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Wild Things Energiser. With it’s whopping 10 toggle switches, vertical button layout and asymmetrical shoulder buttons makes it definitely one of the weirdest. There are SNES and Mega Drive versions.
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Sanwa Supply JY-P62UBK. Many buttons and square gated sticks. On mine the top row of face buttons have to be pressed very hard to register unfortunately.
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wish i could find a photo of this but it’s so long ago and i have no idea what it was called. just after the world cup in 1998, the official game by ea got a massive discount on pc. understandable since fifa 99 was weeks away and the world cup was over.
for some reason, game were selling it for a fiver along with a free gamepad. it looked like your normal snes inspired pad with 4 face buttons and 2 shoulder buttons, so i thought it was a bargain.
except.
while it did work on my windows 98 pc and games did support it as a generic controller…
…two of the four face buttons were not in fact face buttons. they were turbo buttons for the corresponding ones below. so if you were looking at a snes pad, the buttons that you’d expect to be x and y were in fact turbo a and turbo b. the ones you’d expect to be the l and r shoulder buttons were actually x and y. of course this was hardwired so there was no way to even attempt to remap these buttons, they were simply turbo buttons.
annoying but not a dealbreaker, right?
WELL.
there’s one critical problem. that comparison with the snes pad? doesn’t extend to the dpad. it was one of those where the rocker was cheap as fuck, so the pad didn’t rest on the x and y axes. in other words, every direction would naturally move to the diagonals, it was almost impossible to press straight up/down/left/right. if i was older and more confident i might have taken it apart and tried to fix whatever was going on under the dpad itself but i was still an early teen and i couldn’t afford to risk breaking my only pad.
proper piece of shit pad, have so much nostalgia for it.
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I used to have this guy, it’s not really weird input wise, it’s the standard PS2 layout after all, but it sure does look weird and it’s also extremely uncomfortable to hold, to top it off it’s also really low quality, mine would get the sticks stuck like physically in whichever direction you moved them so you had to manually recenter them.
Though to be fair, I bought it because it was so ugly and weird looking not because I expected it to be good, it’s purpose was to sit on a shelf so I could show it off to guests.
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Hell yeah! The Gemini Freak controllers are crazy. I own the Fleshy, its plug housing is too large to fit in a PS2 slim haha.
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no, the main body was that shade of black similar to the mega drive, the top row of face buttons were slightly smaller than the bottom row and from memory it was fairly dinky. i don’t remember if it had a start button but i have a gut feeling it doesn’t
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Game Source’s PS Sakkara AI. Much better than the AI we have now, right? There’s also a Saturn version called SS Majoris AI or SS JoyPad AI in Japan.
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i have questions
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Very curious what the “AI” features are
I’ve always had a soft spot for this Madcatz Xbox 360 arcade controller. I always thought it looked like something out of an episode of Regular Show. Like this is peak “Cartoon Video Game Controller”
I imagine it’s hell to play anything on. That joystick is just built on top of a 360 analog stick, pretty sure that thing is gonna drift just under it’s own weight.
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This dude has a video going over the features https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAM1iYhkjb4 @defines
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Yeah, it’s a cool idea but poorly executed due to being limited by Xinput’s standard. The spinner around the right stick just taps the dpad at different speeds instead of being a true analog input.
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