Buffalo Super Famicom USB pads - Japanese street price?

Is 280Y a flat fee for a single transaction? Ie. can you save up for a big one, or is it for every little deal you do?

 

If I send over 40,000 yen then it's free but anything below that from 1000 yen to 39,999 yen cost 280 tyen. Paypal and their magical rip off service.

I could save up the cash but I don't have my own cash to buy peoples pads so I'd have to send the payments they send me to my bank before I could buy anything.

 

In the UK I can find SNES-USB adapters for a tenner. I can't imagine them costing more elsewhere. Why worry about the quality of a third-party pad when you can use the real thing?

I'm assuming everyone here has at least one SNES pad somewhere...

 

I used to have a SFC pad converter that pluged in to the PC's Keyboard port then the keyboard would connect to the converter. At the front of the converter was two SFC / SNES pad ports. Worked like a dream since basically all it did was convert the pads input in to keyboard strokes. So even software that didn't support pads could accept this converter. I sold it a while back though once I bought a Saturn USB pad. I'm pretty sure someone here bought it.

Yakumo

 

yeah, they're kind of hard to push (actually, its feels like the whole D-Pad needs to be push in, its hard to describe), that's my only problem with those, but it's not too much of a deal breaker to me...

 

"actually, its feels like the whole D-Pad needs to be push in, its hard to describe"

Hmmm... so is it just as bad as the generic SNES clone usb controllers that are all over Ebay? Maybe the Dpad needs to be worn in?

 

I've seen quite a few of the Saturn USB pads on ebay and nearly all the listings say PC/PS3 in the header. Question is have you tried one of these pads in a PS3 yourself or know of anyone else who has? For my money the Saturn pad is the most comfortable joypad I've ever used and I would rather be using one of those where possible than a Dual Shock 3, especially on the PSX and PC Engine games I've bought from the various PSN Stores.

 

If the PS pads are USB then I see no reason why the wouldn't work on a PC. Ive not used one myself, only the official PC USB Saturn pad which feels 100% like the Japanese Saturn pad. Very nice indeed.

 

I have a couple of those Saturn USB pads. They work well with the PC (I've used them with the Kega Fusion emulator). Just make sure you get the official ones (with the SLS sticker on back).

 

The only reason I would consider getting the Buffalo pads is for nostalgic touch, and if they were just as good as a brand new SNES pad. As for the suggestion about buying a SNES to USB adapter and a genuine used SNES pad... that would be about the same cost as buying the Buffalo, wouldn't it? And finding a genuine SNES pad that isn't a bootleg and is still in good condition is like finding diamonds amongst coal.

Also, I already have one of these:
http://www.mayflash.com/pc/pc045/pc045.htm
It is a Wii Classic Controller to PC adapter.

I've had this since January and it works quite well for every emulator I have. Though I wish I had thought to purchase more of the flat model Classic before every store in America stopped selling them and began to only sell the Classic Pro. I tried one of the Pro models and ended up taking it back to the store. The sticks on the Pro are rather loose and so is the DPad, compared to the one flat Classic I have whose Dpad and sticks are nice and firm.

Anyway, since there are people who actually live in Japan who frequent this forum, I have a question about another product. (Please don't think l'm trying to derail Trenton's original thread about the SFC usb pads, I just want to take the opportunity to ask for some info).

Hori makes what looks like a Gamecube controller, but instead of the oddly shaped buttons it has normal SNES style YXBA buttons, as well as an extra Z button (zL), rather large Start Home Select buttons, and individual turbo sliders for each button. The smaller C-stick top is also replaced with a normal top like the left analog stick. From what I hear this unit works just like the Classic Controller, it plugs into the Wii-mote (which means I could use it with my Mayflash adapter since it has the same ports). Does anyone here have one of these and can you tell me how good it is? As I recall, the DPad on the original Gamecube controller was way too small to be any good for 2D games, but the Dpad on the Hori appears to be slightly bigger.

Here is a picture:

 

Like I said, I can find them for £10 on Ebay UK, which is significantly cheaper for any UK buyer than one of these. YMMV, but I can't imagine them costing more than the $34 you quoted for these Buffalo pads.

Personally if I was going the USB pad route I'd go with what Yakumo recommends, the PC Saturn pads. A mate has one and they're perfect. I'd be surprised if you can't find one for ~$34.

What do you use to play SNES with, if not a decent SNES pad?

 

I thought I already mentioned it, but I use Mayflash's Wii Classic Controller to USB adapter and it works rather well (hence why I was asking for opinions on Hori's Classic Controller Gamecube hybrid). Of course, the SNES didn't have analog sticks, or the extra shoulder buttons, but they do come in handy, as does the Home button.



I use it with Joy2Key and I have two profiles for every emulator I use. One is an "in_game" profile for controlling the game with the Dpad and the stick which is good for overhead view RPG's like Secret of Mana and shooters like R-Type (also zL and zR are my Save State and Load State buttons and I abuse them quite a bit), the other is a "select_game" profile where Select escapes or minimizes the emulator, the stick controls my mouse cursor, L and R are scroll up and scroll down, Dpad is the arrow keys, Y is Left Click and Start is Enter / Load.

Joy2Key has a feature to link profiles together, and I use the Home button to swap between the two. Every "select_game" profile is tailored to the particular emulator, but still the same. When I get bored of a game I can easily change roms without getting up which is great since I usually play the games with a wall projector while laying in bed. I can also change emulators by hitting Home, escaping from or minimizing the emulator, then clicking on the Joy2Key icon in my RocketDock stack and using Y to click on another profile.


Yeah yeah, I know... my TurboGrfx16 icon is a japanese famicom pad.
I couldn't find any TG16 icons on IconArchive.com so I just used that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoSxGgby8t8

 

Yeah, I meant "what pad do you use on your SNES if not a decent working SNES pad".

Anyway, it sounds like you've got a couple of decent pads for emulator use already.

 

I haven't had a real working SNES since 1998.

I guess I'm just never really satisfied and I still hope to find the "perfect" pad.

The Buffalo looks really cool, but the only way I'd go out of my way for one is if it felt like the real thing with no hard to press buttons or uncomfortable stiffness in the Dpad. I like my current setup, but I had issues with the Pro (wobbly sticks and wobbly Dpad). The one flat Classic I have has nice tight sticks and a firm (but not hard to press) Dpad, and even that took several exchanges at Best Buy to get the one good one. I thought maybe the same would be true of the Pro, but every time I exchanged for another, it still had the same defects. Perhaps I'm just too picky, but I hate it when everything doesn't feel nice and tight. The other option I'm looking at is the Nyko Wing. The local Gamestop has a few of them in Blue for $14 but unlike Best Buy, Gamestop doesn't have a cash back return policy which kinda sucks in the event that it turns out to be crap.

 

Boo!

I know what I'd spend my $34 on

In seriousness, if you want a "perfect pad", from my experience it won't be third-party. Your call at this stage, though.

 

I haven't been back here for a while, but I was just curious if anyone else had bought one of those Buffalo USB SNES pads and what they were like. You said that the D-Pad was stiff and "audibly clicked," and "needed to be pushed in all the time" does this mean it lacks the center "nub" like the Dpads in a real SNES controller? Also, how did the rest of the buttons feel?

 

Oh, an EMU thread.

 

Since you had the chance to hold one and play around with it, I would like to ask if the L and R buttons had good rubber contacts, or if they had the bad "clickers" like every other generic bootleg USB Snes/SFC gamepad I've seen on ebay. If the latter is true, then I am less enthusiastic about buying this.

 

how about these?
http://allegro.pl/retro-pad-snes-na-usb-2-tech-nowka-r2pol-i1263011487.html

I could get you them.

 

well, i dunno for you guys, but for me:

http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=29
http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=33

few dollars every here or there isn't going to kill you