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When you buy a modern controller, you usually have to pick between a modern feature set and form factor and kind of

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a retro style D-pad and stuff like that. But what if there was a controller that

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let you have it all? That's right, the 8bit do 3

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does it all. And I'm really excited about this. I've heard nothing but good

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things about this controller and I'm on record for really liking the 8bit do

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Ultimate 2C. And this is the fancy step

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up. Inside the box, we get our controller. We have our dock with our

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dongle already inside. Oh, it's a type-C dongle. That's interesting. We also get

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a three-foot cable. We get our joystick

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replacement. Kind of like a classic arcade fight stick sort of thing because

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not only are the joysticks replaceable, but the buttons as well. So, you can

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kind of swap between Xbox layout as well as Nintendo layout. One of the things

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that's really cool about this controller is that it is sort of a hybrid between a

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modern PlayStation style controller and a classic Super Nintendo controller. And

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I find before you actually get your hands on this, it looks like it's going

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to be a horrible time. But when you actually hold it, it's a really comfortable experience. It fits really

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well into the hands. Very natural hand shape. All the buttons are well within

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reach. Although there seems to be something missing. There's supposed to

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be a magnetic Oh, inside the dock we have our little

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magnetic button puller.

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Uh with replacement kind of super Famcom style buttons. So that's that's pretty

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neat. I might actually want to use these. There's a little alignment notch

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to make sure that you can actually get it in correctly. And what I'm finding is

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that you can definitely take off these

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buttons without the magnetic puller. It's nice that it's not super hard, but

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I could see these getting lost or a child pulling them off fairly easy. But

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the good news is once they're on, they feel pretty good. They're snug against

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whatever mechanism is inside. Uh so there's not like an extra amount of

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give. I would say that those buttons feel okay. They're pretty noisy, too. I

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don't love the finish on the buttons either. It's like kind of too glossy.

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It's also not a perfect diamond. That's kind of interesting. It's like kind of

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stretched, but that's fine cuz that's sort of the angle that your thumb lands

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on the controller. Anyway, start and select buttons are super mushy, just

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like I remember the Super Nintendo being. These little buttons are fine.

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How's the D-pad, though? Cuz that honestly might be the most important thing about this controller. There's a

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lot of really good modern style controllers, but there's sort of a der

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of good retro style ones. And so if this can do retro stuff well and modern stuff

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fairly well, I might be interested in this. H, it's okay. D-pad is better than

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most modern controllers. It's got a nice little click when you get to the bottom,

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but the actual D-pad doesn't move a ton

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or doesn't feel like it moves a ton, and so it feels not super satisfying to

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press, but it doesn't feel like I'm going to get a bunch of false positives. So, I think that that's, you know, B+

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territory. We also have our TMR joysticks. That's kind of the new fancy

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uh selling feature. Tonel magnetic resistance which kind of gives you the

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benefit of the higher accuracy of Hall effect while maintaining a lower power

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draw which means that your battery life should be better

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overall face button experience pretty good. How does that go to the top where

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we have our type-C, our connection button, we have left and right bumpers,

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left and right triggers. These are Hall effect triggers and the spring on them

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feels pretty good. Definitely not the highest tier I felt, but certainly

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within the realm of pretty nice. Then we also have our extra L4 and R4 buttons,

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these extra bumpers with my short little sausage fingers. I would have to sort of

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stretch to reach them. So, I don't think I would put anything assigned to these

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that I need really quick access to, but it's certainly there for like a map

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button or something. And luckily, there is actually two back paddles, which is

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even better for stuff that I need to press more often or more more quickly.

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I'm a big fan of back paddles cuz that allows you to put like sprint on it. I

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hate holding a face button to run, man. I But not as much as I hate holding the

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freaking left click. Hate that. The other thing we have on the back is

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actually trigger locks, which is really cool if you're using this in a competitive setting. And that's actually

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a very satisfying little click. Sometimes controllers with the trigger

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locks, when you kind of go in the the quick reaction mode, it can feel kind of

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crappy. And so I actually think this is very adequate. Feels pretty nice in both

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the modern size. Although these sticks are definitely close enough your thumbs

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could rub. I think that's always the big complaint with the PlayStation style

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ones if you have big hands is that can be a bit of an issue. It might have been

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nice if they stretched out the controller just a tad. But because the

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D-pad is actually above the joystick, it

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feels much more natural to play in a retro style grip. This is a really nice

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hybrid. I'm actually very impressed. Going back to the back, we have a mode

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toggle. We have kind of our two Bluetooth modes, the S input and D

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input. And then we have our SNX input, which will be using the dongle, which is

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probably the preferred way for most people to be using it. But this is one

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of the great selling features of this controller is that it actually will work with your Switch as well, making this a

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very versatile controller, especially now that they are really going hard on

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the classic games on the Switch. And

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while I'm all for extra functionality, uh I can certainly see this being a

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little bit confusing for people where they're going to have to try the different modes when they're connecting

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to different pieces of hardware and it might just get a little overwhelming for

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people who are just getting this controller. And the last thing on the back is we have our little charging

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pins, which is really cool because this comes with a nice little charging dock.

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You just put it in there and it would charge if I plugged it in. I think

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that's really neat, especially uh for a more premium controller to have its own

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charging dock. It's nice to have a place to put it. You don't just like leave it on your side table, forget to charge it.

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Although the battery life seems to be pretty adequate. It has a 1,000 mAh

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battery, which for a controller like this is pretty good, especially if you

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use it on the lower powered Bluetooth modes. Before we proceed, I need to try

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these joysticks. I can't imagine I'm going to anything but laugh at them.

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Those are very cute. I really like the way that that looks. I really don't like

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the way that that would feel. I think it's one of those things that you do for

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the fun of it. Uh it's certainly not going to give you competitive edge and

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it's gets your thumb has to be so elevated from the controller. Whereas

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before, you know, you're kind of somewhere around there, now you're all the way up here. It's not like you can't

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control it. It would certainly be a bit of an adjustment. And I think the thumbs

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kissing issue will be even greater if that's an issue for you. I mean, what's

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cooler than thumbs kissing, right? Right. I could see this if you were

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playing very retro games that were originally played with a joystick. I

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could see this being kind of a novel way of doing it without pulling out a whole

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arcade stick to do it. It accomplishes the purpose of fun. Overall, a positive

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thing. And although I really like this magnetic storage system for the buttons,

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I don't think the joystick toppers are going to fit in here. It would have been

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nice just to, I don't know, have a little spot. Even you could put it little clips on the dock and have them

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sit on the dock. I don't know. I don't need this to be a matte gray monolith on

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my desk. Not a big deal in the slightest. Uh, do you know what is a big

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Today, we plugged in our controller. You can't plug it into the computer via the

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dock. These are just charging pins, so you have to plug in the controller

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directly. And when you do that, you can update or you can adjust profiles for

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Windows or Switch by customizing what each of the buttons do. Pretty nifty.

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You can set macros. You can adjust the dead zones on the stick. These are TMR

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sticks, so they better not need a freaking dead zone, dog. You can invert the axis on a controller level or swap

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the left and right joysticks. That's just a nice little accessibility thing.

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And then the triggers, you can change the curb so that you really only need a

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little bit of a click. Although, I hope that the button removes the need for

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that. Okay. Yes, if you use the click, it's 100% right away. So, that's more if

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you're using the analog style. and vibration.

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You can actually hear the magnetic buttons

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vibrating. Oh, no, that's not what it is. It's just general general jank.

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That's my new D and D character. That vibration is not particularly

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impressive, but maybe in games it's going to be a little bit more. So, let's uh pull up a game. We're inside of

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Castlevania Bloodlines, the most underappreciated of the classic

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Castlevanias, in my opinion. Uh, and we're just kind of testing out the retro

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side of this controller. These buttons aren't great. They like almost have like

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a whip sound, which is appropriate for this game, but it's like it's like

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they're too mushy, but they're not tactile enough. It's hard to put my

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finger on exactly what it is. I don't think the sound that they make every

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time I click is helping. Luckily, the D-pad is is pretty adequate. And a game

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that requires precise inputs, I think that this would be pretty good. The

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tactility of it feels like it's going to wear out, but that's not something I can

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test in such a short amount of time. But out of the box, this retro experience is

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pretty damn solid. I just want to keep playing, which is exactly what I want out of my controllers, not to think

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about them. In terms of comfort, it's definitely very ergonomic. I could hold

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this for many, many, many, many hours. It definitely feels more primed for the

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angle that having my thumbs on the thumb sticks would have, but this is definitely adequate, and I am quite

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pleased. I think if I'm looking for one controller to play all my games retro

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style, this is a very, very good candidate. But how does it do in modern

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games? We're in Apex. I'm on the firing range, which is my preferred way to test

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controllers. And this is pretty

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responsive. I don't really like the curve on the right stick. I'm having a

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little bit of trouble getting it to feel really natural, but it's not like a

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input latency or a actual issue with the curve. I think it's just like getting

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used to it. These sticks do feel pretty nice. Fairly smooth. Uh they have the

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plastic ring and the kind of metal on the actual stick which helps make it a

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very smooth experience. They don't feel like the nicest sticks I've ever used,

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but for modern games, this is definitely a good one. Let's try these trigger

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stops. See if I like that better. Oh, yeah. I dig that. That's way better. You

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know what? This is a very accurate controller. I like the way this feels. I

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definitely could see myself using this in a competitive setting. Even though it's not necessarily a competitive

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controller, it still has a 1000Hz pulling rate over X input. Goes lower

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and lower if you use Bluetooth in terms of input latency, but that's normal. So,

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if you're someone that plays only competitive games, I probably would look

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elsewhere. There's a lot of really, really good, similarly priced

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controllers that are better for shooters or racing games or other kinds of modern

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games. But if you're someone that plays a little bit of everything, I think that

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the 8bit Dough Pro 3 is a really excellent option that you should check

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out. It feels very good quality for its price. It has a very unique shape and

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offers kind of a use case that there isn't that many options for. It's the

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rare example of a decent D-pad on a modern controller. It has all the extra

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buttons you could want for your modern games. And it has like neat little extras like those little joystick

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knobbins and the face button change ups, which makes this a pretty good package

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for 70 bucks. I think you could do a lot worse for that considering you get the

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dongle and the dock. I don't hate the gray. I think that's kind of the most

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classic looking one. It also comes in white, but also a purple. Sort of a

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Gamecube aesthetic. Although, it would be nice if the sticks, at least on the

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right side, had been yellow for it. And so, let me know down below if this is a

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controller that interests you. Why don't you just comment that or if you have a

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preferred controller, comment that one down below. Maybe we can check it out sometime on another ShortCircuit just

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like you can check out another ShortCircuit like the one we did on the Cyclone. I really like that controller

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as