Best PC Engine / Turbografx controller: The Shuttle Controller

[esteban]

For practical use, you have to love the Avenue 3 pad. Being able to map Select or Run to "Button 3" is so very nice when you're playing a game that uses it. I mean, I can't be the only one who has gone to press Select, then accidentally reset my game, can I?

One of these days I'll resuscitate my silly dream of listing every single game that can "benefit" from 3-button pad...

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=9188

THREE-BUTTON FRIENDLY GAME (TBFG) FAQ

Ha!

[SuperGrafx]

I really love the original white PCE controller.
It took everything I loved about the classic NES controller and made it more refined and comfortable to use.

[cr8zykuban0]

i gotta go with the avenue 6 controller as my favorite! also like the shuttle controller. looks like a batman controller

[NightWolve]

Didn't know about it, looks nice. Me, I just upgraded to the six button avenue pad for $40 BITD. Then I took the now unused turbo pad that came with my Turbo Duo and converted it to a joystick via the NES Advantage. Turned it into the "NEC Advantage." Taking out the PCB from the pad, soldering it in properly to the joystick PCB and voila, it somehow worked out. My first mod in the 90's. Heh.

[Lochlan]

Hori Fighting Pad PC all the way.

[InfraMan]

For practical use, you have to love the Avenue 3 pad. Being able to map Select or Run to "Button 3" is so very nice when you're playing a game that uses it. I mean, I can't be the only one who has gone to press Select, then accidentally reset my game, can I?

100% agree, once you upgrade to the 3-button pad, there's no going back. Never again will I be forced to clumsily mush the old Select or Run buttons like a common NES peasant!

[clackattack]

I love my wireless pads.

X2 on these things, they kick ass!

[schweaty]

Hori Commander and the XE-1Pro for me. 

[Bernie]

Sorry, but for me, the Ave 3 and 6 pads are terrible.  I hate they way they feel in my hands.  Now, the Shuttle controller?  That thing is very comfy.  I love it.  I wish I had never sold me shuttle now.. But, it went to a good guy, Sparky!

[PunkicCyborg]

Last night I used the Ave 3 for Valis 3 so that I could use the 3rd button to better pull off slides and expedite character changes.  I was shocked... I kept missing every slide and experienced frequent inadvertent character changes.  Had to go back to the 2 button pad. I guess my brain is now wired to use the run button for Valis 3. :/

Next time I find a new game that uses the run button as a 3rd button, i'm using the Ave 3 out of the gate so I don't end up brainf*cked by getting used to pressing run on a 2-button pad.

Wow that's odd, i feel like that Valis III is one of the games that works best with the ave 3 pad. Maybe you should lay off the pizza while you are playing so the buttons wont be so slippery

[esteban]

Greasy hands do the Devil's work.

[greedostick]

I have this controller

http://www.ebay.com/itm/PC-Engine-PCE-Hori-Fighting-Commander-6-Button-Controller-used-Japan-NEC-/161442351245?pt=US_Video_Game_Controllers&hash=item2596b6c88d

Hori Fighting Commander 6 button controller. I love it. The D-Pad and buttons feel like SNES ones.

[Ayce]

I was thinking about getting one of the Hori pads. The problem I ran into was I already have the Avenue 6 so I haven't gotten around to getting it yet. I thought that it looks better for fighting games than the Ave6.

[imparanoic]

I have avenue 6 and standard pc engine pads, they are ok, functional, not great ergonomically, I also have snes/sfc hori fighting command ( pc engine version are usually pricey cos it's not common), it's much much better in d pad responsiveness and ergonomics, very very good

But hori has always been well known for the leading edge in controller design (I have over 10 hori controllers/joysticks, including ps3, ps2 wireless, ps2 wired with headphone extension, hori wii classic controller - great for wii emulators, ps1 fighting command, ps1 classic  non analog, 2 ps2 hori sticks and 2 ps3 wireless hori/wired joystick ) some of the hori controllers reach silly prices, ie, n64 hori mini and gc digital controller, which I think is more money than sence

[spenoza]

I have this controller
Hori Fighting Commander 6 button controller. I love it. The D-Pad and buttons feel like SNES ones.

This is not the controller for me, then. I hate the SNES D-pad. I think almost every NEC controller has a better D-pad.