It's going to adjust the way I play, but while we're on the subject, does anyone actually use all three notches on the original controller?
I feel like I just switch all the way up or down, never in between.
I know I used low and max as a kid with a real TG-16 console, pretty sure low was occasionally handy if max rapid fire speed was too off from what the game could process.
Something else came to mind when I saw this photo with the original product, you're 2 more buttons away to achieve a 6-button NEC Avenue pad mold and could've included fighting games!
I was telling Chris Tang what he thought about my feeling given the money - the most expensive mini at present - that they could've gone with the 6-button NEC Avenue pad, included Street Fighter II CE, Fatal Fury 2/Special, World Heroes 2 (since Arcade CD memory was emulated for Sapphire). That would've turned some heads and improved sales quite a bit I suspect!
I never got to play SFII with my 6-button pad... By the time I bought one, PS1 era was around, I never got a region adapter for my Turbo Duo or the SFII HuCard, so it was a waste of $40 at the time... I would've liked the option with this!
Chris argued while it would've been nice, the small % of games that use it would've confused most people. Most 2B games freak out if you have it set to 6B mode on original hardware.
I thought about it again, that with emulation you could control the freak-out problem, use 2 extra buttons for turbo, the other 2 for save/load states/features, and II/I as normal... And then if you load SF II, boom, it's full 6 button mode. It could've been justified like that I suppose, but just like a SuperGrafx mini mold, it was not destined to happen.
When i saw that notice i was like wtf !?? Now thinking i may cancel my preorder and just buy one from amazon jpn instead.
Yeah, that's what everyone did with a preorder, it's not much trouble to figure out Amazon Japan. Amazing shipping time to boot, I ordered on the 3rd, it was dropped off on the 7th!