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stephen_usher wrote: Tue Sep 08, 2026 11:48 pm I've just got home from my partner's place and tested the "high quality" N64 controllers.

To be fair the mouldings are good and the buttons etc. feel OK...

On one controller the analogue "down" works only if you pull it down a little, then it goes up.
On the other controller the D-pad does left and down if you press left, most of the time.

Otherwise they're fine.

I didn't expect anything better for £23 including delivery though to be honest.
I got lucky and managed to bag a Competition Pro controller fro a tenner. It was filthy though and missing screws, however it has proved to be a decent controller after some maintenance and it does have turbo switches for all of the buttons.

Not sure how it ended up this way, never having had Nintendo consoles BITD, but I've ended up with a Famicom, a NES, a SNES, an N64, a WII and a WII-U, not to mention numerous Gameboys and a Switch Lite!!!

Good job I have enough space to store them...
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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OK, well those controllers were good enough to test the system but the analogue stick on both doesn't work correctly in many games and in Mario ones doesn't work at all. Definitely not fully compatible. It's a pity as otherwise they feel pretty good quality.

The SummerCart64 works well and was pretty easy to update and get working.
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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