Cheap Chinese USB SNES Controllers! Making Them Useful, and a Overview

Recently I bought some cheap Chinese controllers from MercadoLivre (Essentially the Brazilian version of MercadoLibre or eBay/Taobao).

They are pretty good to hold and the buttons are nice enough to press, but they come with an inherent design flaw which I teach how to fix on this video and make them a little bit more usable.

Overall I'm having tons of fun with them, so is my little brother and dad who grew up with a SNES on a Lakka box I built with an RK3229 chip on it (on a cheap TV Box), which I might make another post about it seeing as how plentiful this type of hardware is in Latin America.

Anyway, thank you for watching, and I hope I won't take long to upload again!



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so is it worth it or better to buy a proper one and pay a bit more? O.O at least asking for those that need to buy something like this x.x I never played SNES games. My time was like gameboy the wide one and the thin one and gamecube . Good times good times.

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If you absolutely need the best experience possible, there are better controllers. But for a tenner, this is unbeatable, specially with the electric tape trick. It works like a charm and it feels like an original controller, just without the recessed buttons. I personally loved it. :)

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I see. Then it's really worth it bang for your buck! Hopefully people that are looking for one can see this post and buy this cheap one haha. Do you know how if they have usb gamecube controller and how to set up the smash on pc. I've seen some people play super smash on pc.

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I haven't seen Gamecube controllers from this brand, but you can probably find other cheaper ones from Chinese brands as well. I might buy N64 and GC controllers in the future as well because I've always wanted to try them but don't wanna pay the full price hahahaha

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haha come on. sometimes i don't know its worth it to spend a bit more. You will also need to see how long they last. im afraid the cheap ones usually dont have a long life cycle. I remember buying cheap earphones and boom gone in like 1-3 months but i buy an apple earphones can last like almost 2 years ; ;

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We'll have to see. These SNES ones seem very well built at least, I always check reviews on MercadoLivre before buying to know if they'll last, but only time will tell haha

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haha ok we will see :P do share with the community what happens to the controllers in a few months time

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Love the control, really usefull for play emulators like NES, SNES, gba and more friend. Nice review in yT

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