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Hey mods. Sorry if I'm replying to a "necro'd" thread, but I just felt like adding to -this- particular discussion...
Got mine the other night. I'm running Win7x64. Required driver installation so it isn't as handy as my old PSX->USB converter which required no extra media. This comes with a tiny CDR (Yes, CDR. They just burned it on their computers!) with the installer on it.
You don't need the software disc -at all- If you want to do remapping, just use the far superior Joy2Key. I've heard about people getting BSODs after installing the software from the mini CD. Joy2Key does this better, I take full advantage of its "profile chaining" ability.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VjLI3rNkzk
Sorry for the absolutely crappy video, mayhaps someone else could make a better one.
I have the wireless model (does anyone else
-besides me- know about the wireless model?)
With my arrangement, I don't even need to get up to switch emulators, profiles, or roms... I can control all that just from the controller.
This method may not afford use of the Wiimote as a secondary device, but it is far far easier than the Glovepie method everyone else says to use instead of "crappy converters." It's plug and play, and when I reboot my machine or I switch out controllers, the only thing I need to do is just turn the adapter back on. Once it's synced it -stays- synced.
I've used the Classic Controller for everything from just playing emulators, to playing Vindictus (real time battle MMO that plays somewhat like a Soul Calibur game).
The Dpad is one of the absolute best, second only to the SNES controller's Dpad. Screw Xbox's Dpad, it can go straight to hell where it belongs.
The sticks feel nice and tight, the face buttons have that great 'pop' sound (and if they don't, I have a method to put that pop in there, not just for the YXBAs, but the squishy shoulder buttons as well. All you need is a hole punch, a tri-wing screwdriver, and some of those "adhesive lables" from the school supply section of your grocery store. Having the small sticky paper discs under your buttons makes it make better contact with the tops of the rubber and magnet bits.)
After 3 years of playing emulators with the Classic Controller (I got the wired model of the CCtoUSB adapter way back in November of 2010). I wouldn't ever want to switch to anything else... Oh and btw, I was the one who suggested they make the adapter in the first place. I tried a whoooole bunch of different adapter manufacturers and most of them told me "We can't and won't make an adapter for a dying console that more than likely isn't going to sell." Mayflash was the only manufacturer that actually listened to the idea and were willing enough to go out on a limb and make it.
Proof.... (yes, I'm a horrible person and screencapped our email conversations, lol)
http://s21.postimg.org/dh8wito3b/Mayflash_Email_1_WIRED.png
http://s10.postimg.org/e5b1renkp/Mayflash_Email_2_Wireless.png
http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13092
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It [the Saturn gamepad) is the best 2D controller around, so yes. Games that are restricted to 4 directions will play slightly better on Nintendo's D-Pad design, but it's a very slight advantage...
Dpads, regardless whether they're a circle rocker piece or a
cross w/ four nubs, they still typically allow use of all 8 directions.
By your logic, the original SNES controllers only had ''4 directions''
Even when playing on an actual SNES as a kid I distinctly remember
walking in a diagonal line on Link to the Past and Secret of Mana.