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"Review of the Gamecube controller"

I've got no idea how it plays, so don't ask. I'm reviewing it as a standalone product. I have a black official controller, for reference.

Well, I suppose you could first pick it up, and hold it for a while. I'll try that now and give a review.

Fantastic. It's extremely comfortable, and I can drum the L and R buttons to music.

Next, I'm going to review it's smell.

Oddly, it smells like a hint plastic. Nintendo have obviously crafted special effort into making the controller as odour free as possible.

I shall now try to skip with the controller.

Skipping with the controller is good fun. There's just enough length for me to skip just about properly, having to duck to bring the controller back over. My monkey like arms make it good to skip with.

The end bit that you plug into the Gamecube is really small and shiny. I don't have much to say about that bit.

If you turn the controller at an angle, upside down from behind, it kinda looks like a cat. With two big grey teeth. And a blue one.

There are four screws on it.

The buttons make me feel like a man when I press them. This is good. The X-Box's controller still upsets me with the really poncy buttons.

I think the D-Pad is cool. It looks really small, but I find it pretty easy to use, and I have pretty big hands.

All in all, it's probably best to have a Gamecube, before buying a controller.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Heh, I'm sure that will please Mrs-no. Off to sleep now, night.

Me too.. Driving lesson in eight hours.

*cringes*

Whoever let me behind the wheel.. obviously had a gun to their head.

Heh, I'm sure that will please Mrs-no. Off to sleep now, night.

Turbonutter wrote:
> Any decent hardware store will get you triangular heads, or fix you up
> with a mouldling-putty to make your own.

We can get putty so we look like we have trianguler heads?

Wicked!

Any decent hardware store will get you triangular heads, or fix you up with a mouldling-putty to make your own.

Or†ega wrote:
> It is comfortable to hold, bt my fingers still hurt after about an
> hours worth of play.
>
> No different to PS2 pad really.
>
> Although GC pad is slighty more confortable to hold whilst not playing
> a game.
>
> Why does the screws on the GC pads have weird heads? i aint got no
> triangular screwdivers like that...do they not want any of us opening
> them up?

Same as my Japanese GBA's... They got annoyed with me swapping the backs and fronts over on all the consoles and controls :D

Something like that.

Or†ega wrote:
> It is comfortable to hold, bt my fingers still hurt after about an
> hours worth of play.
>
> No different to PS2 pad really.
>
> Although GC pad is slighty more confortable to hold whilst not playing
> a game.
>
> Why does the screws on the GC pads have weird heads? i aint got no
> triangular screwdivers like that...do they not want any of us opening
> them up?

they have a deal with tool company so you have to buy funny tools

It is comfortable to hold, bt my fingers still hurt after about an hours worth of play.

No different to PS2 pad really.

Although GC pad is slighty more confortable to hold whilst not playing a game.

Why does the screws on the GC pads have weird heads? i aint got no triangular screwdivers like that...do they not want any of us opening them up?

It took me ages to find the 'Z' button:S

*desperate for Meka to see this*

actually it has 6 screws.

i reakon te Z button would have been better as a trigger on one side but then i don't use it much.