A real Sega Saturn controller has a matte dpad and triggers that aren't loose as shit and rattle around in the case and generally feels high-quality and durable.A Retro-Shit has a glossy dpad that your fingers slip off of and it's also looser and slightly mushier and both the triggers and buttons are loose and rattle around in the case like fucking maracas and just generally feels cheap as shit like you could snap it in your hands.You have been warned. Get an OEM with an adapter (cheap) or the official USB controller made by Sega back in the early 2000s (pricy).
8bitdo works
>>12022024Real Saturn controller is also better than an M30 but the M30 at least isn't a complete imitation that's also atrocious
>>12022024Anything but official controllers are trash. Hori is sometimes the exception.
>>120220248bitdo is mostly bad with some exceptions.the neogeo cd replica is one of them.don't own a m30 to say, but some anons have talked against it.
>>12022014Retrobit got all the molds straight from Sega. There isn't a closer copy of it made today.
>>12022014okplaying vidya with my 8bitdo right now btw
>>12022136Look, I have both, if this is true they still really fucked it up somehow. Probably cheaper plastic, less quality control, and they also definitely used different switches for the triggers.
>>12022014i had two of these and they both broke one was the trigger and another was the dpad
>>12022143can you maybe put the motherboard in an og saturn controller or would it not fit?
>>12022164I've heard of other people doing this. Maybe I will instead of using an adapter. Adapter adds like 8ms of input lag which isn't much but it's worse than the Retro-Bit USB's 1ms
>>12022024>>12022076I bought that saturn pad by 8shitdoodoo and one of the shoulder buttons was right away much looser than the other one. It might be easily fixable but I haven't bothered yet.
I have both and the real oem controller is like 10% better. Overall I never use the retro bit one but I think it's a decent buy
>>12022014I actually like this retro-bit saturn better than original. The dpad is more floaty, easier to pivot with your thumb and causes less fatigue than the original.You're right about the buttons and especially the triggers, they are absolute dogshit. But for the dpad the retro-bit it's the best. I use it for shmups.
>>12022164Yeah it fits.
>>12022223I wouldn't think too much about input lag as every 5th gen system used a bios which introduces a input lag and there is no real zero lag controller from that era.
Are these any good?
>>12022908Did the N64 have a bios?
>>12022164You can do that with all of the cheap chinese knockoffs, did that before a new officially licensed controller replaced the discontinued sls controller. With that being the case, I'd imagine the new ones are fine too. and no, I never tried to install my sls controller into an og shell, as there wasn't any point.
Sandpaper down the d-pad, open the controller and put a thin layer of crazy glue around the loose buttons to make them thicker.
>>12022920Yeah it managed the saves on your memory pak(you needed to hold start when the system booted with a game using a memory pak).
>>12022014The worst part is how the dpad breaks extremely fast
>>12022024This. I love my M30.
>>12022136You can get the molds, but you can never get the Krabby Patty secret formula
>>12022014those ones do suck the dpads feel loose compared to their genesis ones. Exception being their saturn controller with the sticks, the dpad is solid on that one.
I got an OEM Saturn one that has really shitty clicks on the triggers, like barely there, probably from extensive use.But I also have one of those old USB ones made by Sega directly and those have awesome triggers, very nice. The Retro-Bit is better than the first one but waaaaaaay worse than the other USB one. Sadly the USB one I have is the gray one with blue triggers which is nice but a little boring and the Saturn one is the white color (best controller color scheme of all time)
>>12022136Pretty sure they're just copies of the official molds. Just like how it was with SLS. The SLS pad was really close, but the rear housing texture isn't exactly the same as an OG Saturn controller. Why? Because they made a copy of the copy. It's a damn good copy, but ultimately it's a copy.
Originally retro bit simply couldn't source buttons that felt like a 90s PC mouse for the shoulder buttons. Now though, clicky buttons are super common in modern 3rd party controllers. I feel like retro bit could now provide authentic clicky Saturn shoulders. Never seen anyone express this autistic thought before so here it is
>>12024693that doesn't explain why the shoulder buttons are so loose in the housing
>>12022014>literally a nothing burgerI guess good luck finding membrane replacement parts or boiling shit or touching up all that shit with a carbon conductive pen- cause that sure sounds like fun rather than just buying a working controller for 20 buckaroos.
