Dreamcast Controller Review

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Uploaded by on Feb 17, 2009

This is my first review in hopefully a series of controller reviews from various game consoles.
This one is of the Dreamcast controller, a very affordable, and wonderfully designed controller for one of the best consoles ever created.

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  • If you have 2 or more controllers, do you need 2 or more VMU cards?

  • @Buss713 VMUs are not necessary to use the Dreamcast controller, just to take advantage of VMU only features, like being able to see your current health status in Resident Evil 2 for example, however, I believe nearly all Dreamcast games can be saved to any memory card that is plugged into any controller points are labelled "A,B,C,D and each controller can have VMU/memory cards in all A1,A2,B1,B2 etc. However there are some that of course default to A1.

    Hopefully I answered your question.

  • the wii u controller yd that

  • @wwtapsable Say what?

  • I swear the 3DS copied off the button arrangement.

  • @Mematman15 You know, I hadn't actually made the connection, but yes, same face button and "joystick" layout. Aside from the Select/Home/Start buttons.

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  • microsoft copied the controller design of this

  • Shows how cheap M$ is. They really don't want to waste engineering money.

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  • No, that d-pad is awful, playing Marvel vs Capcom 2, on this controller used to give me infinite pain. Fighting games on dream were fail.

  • how long do the thumb sticks usally last??

  • I've officially named all of the 3DS' buttons.

    Analog Stick/Joystick = Circle Pad

    Directional Pad/Plus Control Pad = Plus Pad

    ABXY/Face Buttons = ABXY Buttons (Ah-BEX-see)

    L and R = Shoulder Buttons

    Start/Select/Home = Home Buttons

    Power Button = Power Button

    3D Adjuster = 3D Slider

    ...And I think that's it, no?

  • @Indead and @Mematman huh? the 3DS isn't based off of the Dreamcast controller. They just happened to notice the need for a Circle Pad (people call it "joystick" or "analog stick", but Circle Pad sounds cooler). The Plus Pad ("directional pad" smufectional gad) was already there, along with the ABXY (Ah-BEX-see) Pad was also there (they just added X and Y), so I dunno what you mean by Nintendo copied Dreamcast.

  • @Indead

    Thank you for the helpfull response. Yes, you answered my question :)

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