Hey, everyone, share your favourite and what you think is the best 3rd party accessorie for any console. I'll start with the Makopad 64 /Super pad plus for the N64. This is a great controller improving many aspects of the original N64 controller. It's actually not confusing to hold the first time and the analog stick is much more durable. These things aren't too rare and the price is very reasonable for such a good controller. It's the best 3rd party controller for the N64 along with the Hori minipad ( which is much too expensive for most people).
Trance Vibrator That little skate board add on thing for the analog sticks that came with Yanya Cabalista: https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3727/9589100355_796c92db3d_z.jpg Datach & sufami turbo were cool ideas, but they didn't get enough traction
$10, will bring a broken N64 Controller back to life. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-REPLACE...g_Replacement_Parts_Tools&hash=item58b28f01c2 Actually any Hori PS1/PS2 controller will do GREAT!
I think the Hori Minipad 64 is probably my favorite 3rd party controller - in fact, it's one of my favorite controllers ever. The analog stick is much better than the official N64's stick; it's similar to the Gamecube stick, but it's actually bigger. It's a great controller overall. The one complaint I have is that the placement of the Z-button(s) feels a little awkward at times. Still, it works very well for the vast majority of N64 games. I'm also a fan of the GunCon and GunCon 2 light guns, which are made by Namco. They're both very accurate, have really cool designs, and have a nice feeling to them. Because of the way the US treats fake guns, the GunCon and GunCon 2 had to use different colors than in Japan. In Japan, they were all black. In the US, the GunCon was grey with an orange barrel, and the GunCon 2 is completely orange. They're both great guns. They made a GunCon 3 for the PS3 as well, but I haven't used it much. It was IR-based, unlike the previous GunCons, which were traditional light guns. I've already mentioned some of this before, but I thought it was worth repeating.
Yeah count me in on that, beautiful controller. Too bad the one I finally found didn't work I have the sensor though, at least.
The only problem with them is that you can't have two going at once, at least with the Xbox. Other wireless controllers (the Wavebird comes to mind) allow you to use different channels. A decent expanded memory card for the PS1/2,DC, or N64. The first party ones are just about the smallest, and the most expensive (though with the DC you do get the VMU). I like the Pelican 4x memory card (I can't find a picture of it). I've had it for about 11 years with no problems. Even survives being thrown on a concrete floor.
You are right ! These expanded memory cards are so useful, just take a look, they are much cheaper than the 1st party 8mb memory cards for the PS2. http://www.ebay.com/itm/128MB-Memor...4?pt=US_Video_Game_Memory&hash=item19ed727b78
I too use a Makopad 64 (transparent) for my N64, and it's eighteen million times better than the official Nintendo pad. As you say, you can reach all of the controls without shifting your hands, and the analogue stick is metal, so it doesn't wear away, unlike on the the official pad. I've been using mine for fourteen or more years now, and it's been hammered, what with Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Super Smash Bros., etc, and it's as responsive now as it ever was. Also, I have an Everdrive 64, which is a flash cartridge for the N64, and it not only allows you to have all N64 games on one cartridge (in effect), but you can also play the homebrew N64 software (i.e. Doom - http://krikzz.com/forum/index.php?topic=1886.0), modded commercial games (i.e. Goldeneye X, F-Zero X Climax, the English translations of Sin and Punishment, and Wonder Project 2, etc), and unreleased games (40 Winks, etc), and prototypes (Glover 2, O.D.T., Dragon Sword 64, Tamiya Racing 64, etc). And it lets you play games of any region, as long as your TV supports those games. It's software also allows you to copy the contents of a controller pak (the contents are game saves) to the ED64's SD card (and vice versa, so you can store backups of the controller pak on a PC or Mac, and restore them at will), and even has full Gameshark support (though at the moment the Gameshark support doesn't include the ability to select individual cheats (you have to manually edit a text file to select which cheats to activate), or to make your own cheats, though you can type them in from a magazine or the Internet). The Everdrive 64 is *fantastic*, and really transforms the N64! Aside from the Makopad 64, and the Everdrive 64, I don't think I have many third party items for my consoles. My original XBox has a mod chip, which I suppose sort of counts, and it's fantastic as it let's me play emulators on the XBox, and use the XBox as a media player thanks to the brilliant XBMC, and play all of the XBox games from the hard drive. Nothing really for my Gamecube, PS2, XBox 360, or PS3. Well, my PS2 has a network card (I don't know if it's official or not), and using the software Free McBoot, and Open PS2 Loader, it lets me play PS2 games from the hard drive, which is fantastic.
Yes, the Everdrive is fantastic. I wonder why aren't flash carts manufactured by large companies. I mean the demand is there, there will be profits. If these flash carts would be mass produced, I think you could get something like an Everdrive 64 for $30.
It's a legal grey area and I don't know if the demand really is there... Things like everdrives are pretty expensive to research and produce. To a large company, the profits made by something like that would be a drop in their bucket and not worth the effort..
The Action Replay Plus for Saturn. It's payed for itself 100 times over just by allowing me to buy the cheaper Japanese releases, that's not even getting into the other functions. Plus I'll always be thankful to the GBC Wormlight for making all those long car trips and restless hotel stays as a kid halfway bearable.
I was just going to post "Action Replay 4M Plus for Saturn", but now I just have to +1 you. Adds so much functionality to the system!
Ah yes, definitely +1. I don't even use the codes, but getting Japanese games is so much cheaper (and they have those nicer cases, and a lot weren't released in the US). I got the first two Panzer Dragoon games for about $25, which was less than either would be from the States. That paid for it alone. And yeah, the Wormlight gets crapped on, but it made long drives possible as a kid.
