Fear the Mad Catz - The Worst Video Game Controllers Ever 

Sound advice from the Flingsmash man himself

I think back to the Caddicarus PS1 accessory video

They use Tofu Dregs construction??

This wasn't a life support machine, this was just a bread box

they give these away with car stereos!

Was that from the PS1 accessories video

@@CHATNOCEDA it was

They had a reason to give them to the friends, brothers and sisters so they can say they were gamers when the game was actually rigged. lol

The controllers that let you know who the outsider of the friend group was....

The controller for the friend of a friend (but not yours) who came along

Same as it ever was

🎶letting the days go by 🎶

Talking heads. Good one

@@nateholt429 Aren't Talking Head canadian like Shane and Adam from Rerez?

The only thing worse than a Mad Catz controller, is a used Mad Catz controller.

my thoughts exactly, looks neat but JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!?

Would've been my first thought. No one answers the phone like that at work willingly lol

Gamestop's tenure is like one big book at the Geneva convention. Allying with Mad Catz seems so predictable with the execs they had clowning around in there.

Okay but the rat 8 mouse by madcatz was the single best computer mouse I've ever used. The day that it stopped working will go down in infamy

Yeah.... I wasn't there for that, but did run a store early 2000's. Sucked that people really wanted the Kanomi light gun, Kanomi dance pad, etc -- they (when they were a generation old) just couldn't be had and the only options at any local store was the Mad Katz crap. But we tried to talk anyone that would listen into getting first party controllers...even used 1st party...many thought we were trying to upsell, not actually dangerously defying corporate. Would let them try used one's out on a trade-in to compare, etc. (But when you're a solid #1 ranked store and have negative shrink, you can get away with a little more...) That was back when employees could "check out" games to get familiar with them...makes sense. But that included PC games....seriously. I''m sure everyone un-installed those every time they brought one back and we re-sealed-and-shrinked it.... (this was just before all the codes/online reg became much more common -- those were obviously not allowed, but the codes were a huge theft target)

Thank god i was never used to buy the cheap crap back in the 90´s

It arguably does a better job that way, too!

​@@TheOnlyTherazanArguably? No, it *does*

I would never do that! I have before given my brother my NSO SNES pad when we played Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on occasion, but that’s because: - that game CAN be played with the d-pad - ALL my Joy Cons were drifting at the time, so I wanted to save him the hassle

works better that way

Jeez

Crazy accurate description.

All the madcatz controllers I've gotten as presents are awful. Except the wheel. It still sucked. Fischer price type cheap plastics, mushy buttons, but when i pulled it out of the closet after learning about assetto corsa it worked perfectly. Steering wasnt just a button press like in the video in gt4. Every axis worked. It still sucked, no one should buy one. But i got lucky ig lmao.

That's disrespectful to sitcoms. You might as well be driving like Dingo Dog if you use such a racing wheel.

It works great for George Costanza's Test Drive New York

They seem to have terrible control sticks I hear gamers complain when they brought the sports version Xbox controllers when they looked like copies of dream cast controllers

I have a feeling that their control sticks were taken from crappy 3rd party C64/Amiga controllers from Europe.

@ExtremeWreck when I took one apart with a joycon issue I noticed that white plastic was always broken right on the inside of the housing it snaps like a toothpick when played with too much. In fact found that issue with the series s controllers when it came to the top triggers as they have have these little toothpick size endings that are suppose to press on the buttons deep inside the unit instead of just having the actual buttons near those triggers

@@furrysourcecode9809 I guess that could be evidence of them being microcomputer controller imports?

@@ExtremeWreck I eventually stopped using their controllers and started using this other brand back then called STD entertainment when I needed third party retro controllers that or I went to sega parts UK I still have one of their memory cards when it came to third party dreamcast stuff and the save file on that thing dates back to the 90s as well as two vhs tapes of game play where I picked up weird audio on cutscenes that came from some of those games. And I think mad catz had some action replay and code junkie accessories I also think they had a hand in some game stop branded controller as it looks very similar to one of those controllers In fact I thought they made that cyborg 7 keyboard that is now being price gouged by scalpers currently where some are selling that thing with missing parts, etc or just selling the keyboard with the missing command module pretty much the major thing that made it look cool

Those Street Fighter IV Tournament Edition fight sticks were were awesome. I still use mine to this day.

Solid construction, came with reputable parts, and highly modular. If only they hadn't spent the last decade plus.... just being absolute dogwater.

The MADCATZ Tournament Edition helped a whole new generation of fighting game players understand the wonder of Sanwa Denshi parts 👏

Nobody ever mentions this, the SE for $80 was an incredible deal. It wasn't genuine parts but unlike all the other cheap MadCatz alternatives it was actually great for the price. I got into arcade sticks because of it and haven't looked back since. The TE was a break from their usual MO because it used genuine Sanwa parts, the same things you'd find in a Japanese arcade cabinet. That opened the door for the other companies to come in. Razer used those same parts. According to an interview with MarkMan, it sounds like they lucked out a little. Another employee saw him and his friend playing fighting games on custom sticks at lunch and they passed the idea upstairs from there. Lines up with their rehabilitation era.

I was assuming Rerez wouldn't mention this, because this is my experience, too, so I'm glad someone else did. I use my TE2+ stick to this day and I love it!

The contrast between my beat up Gamecube knockoff that repeatedly sent Shadow careening off a cliff and paused the game, and my TES+ that regularly turns heads when I pull it out, is just staggering.

and gaming computer mice

@@DragonHiss4 proof that they should have just made good products all the time

​​@@5274jacob I had a mad catz r.a.t. 9 and loved that mouse.

This is absolutely true. I always hated MadCatz until I saw their fightsticks and the reviews for them. I have one, and it's excellent, with standard genuine Sanwa parts. It was absolutely worth mentioning how they turned their brand around, even if it was too late.

Underrated comment

They had a deal with Gamestop that kept their inventory In circulation even if no one bought it. Basically Gamestop bought their trash, no one bought it, then it went in the trash. Bad for Gamestop which was failing anyway, but Mad Catz made a profit as long as the inventory went to a store. They never got a foothold on Amazon because their brand name was only associated with poor quality by then, and there were hundreds of Chinese manufacturers that flooded the market with 3rd party controllers at or above Mad Katz quality.

their main thing for a while was fightsticks, which they did very well at. they sponsored a bunch of fighting game players.

Carried by the Fighting Game Community and Guitar Hero lol

Their pc gaming peripherals were actually decent, that's probably the only thing that kept them afloat.

@@2handsome398 And their memory cards were great too. I still have a 16 Gigabyte Gamecube memory card my siblings and I pooled our money for back in the day. it never gave us any problems at all. (16 gigs was WAY more space than any official memory card, if you want to know what we needed that much space for, we had Amazing Island, 'nuff said)

Most likely same parent company (Mad Catz) but a more competent company actually makes the product, similar to how they bought Saitek and now there are actually decent flight sticks out there with Mad Catz branding.

​@Katastrophe9009 Mad Catz actually made the FightSticks. I worked for Mad Catz for 11 years. I used to talk to all of the upset customers 😂

Fr tho

They hired MarkMan23 from the FGC as a consultant and he actually is passionate about arcade sticks and essentially made them use good parts and solid design iirc

@@naes412 MarkMan was actually hired to work in the Tech Support department before the FightSticks were around.

yep, he avoided some of their good controllers throughout the years. he clearly painted a very biased negative picture with none of the positives lol

@@someguy5319 Probably because that was the norm with mad catz. They only got better because they bought their way in with saitek. No effort on their part at all thats why they never bothered to mention them probably

Yeah I had one that was good too.

Someone at MadCatz didn't do their job.

Same Game Cube Game Catz gear worked well and last years. I guess broken clocks are right twice a day (unless you use 24-hour time).

Interestingly is one of my worst disappointments with an "official" controller. The Xbox 360 controller with transforming dpad to be precise. You could turn it and get a cross instead of a disk thanks to some internal construction magic. Sadly it's still garbage because the underlying design is simply bad.

I never had the misfortune of getting a madcatz controller but if I was your child you would be my main role model

I would have told them, We can get that one, but its BAD so don't complain later.

Good parenting 😂

Obviously stay away from Mad Catz, but if you still play N64 stuff, I'd recommend an Ultra Racer 64, obviously only if you play racing games (though trying to beat Smash Bros with it is silly fun!)

🤣 true

I had a wireless one with the grippy rubber for the GameCube and thought I was the sh*t. Now your comment has me wondering too 😛

you playing on proper game hardwear is basically the equivalent of rock lee removing his weights lol.

Ditto

Kinda like training with weights. Take them off (use a first party controller), and you'll be unstoppable.

No sheit.

​@@WhoJustStoleMyNameNot Funny. Didn't laugh.

That's what bootleg game companies and bad games prey on and it unfortunately does work.

This makes sense and I will explain through a story Imagine you are a parent your kid is bringing one of their friends over to play video games you make some good old pb&js and soon a ring at the door both kids sit down to play but oh no you bought the console which only came with one controller so before both kids started running around destroying the house you say "don't worry I will go to the store and buy another one" you grab your keys and your wallet and go to best buy,k-mart or Walmart what ever one and go to the controller section now you think you know which one to buy from how it looks and you buy one for a very cheap price you drive home and give it to them before you go do something else never knowing you bought the wrong one

They would buy those due to being cheaper and then move on to buying socks, tooth paste and deodorant unless it was the cool grandparents

Your parent knew they were just cheaper than the official ones.

When my New Nintendo 3DS broke last year (I only recently discovered the CPU cracked after it fells out of my pocket!), my Dad ordered me "another white 3DS", clearly not knowing the difference, but I could tell from the order form he ordered me an original model system! I told him "Wrong model!" and Mom asked me "Isn't it good enough?" and I just got mad! I am sick of having to educate my folks OVER AND OVER on the differences of different consoles! I did get another New 3DS but its screen has a slight blue tint and the volume slider is stiff! Still, after the repair shop told me the CPU in my original system was cracked, I could still ask Nintendo to let me transfer my NNID to the replacement system (I was able to get the broken system's serial number from parental controls e-mails as I've been an uncle since October 2020) and I got my eShop purchases back! And before the recent shutdown! You know a good place to get replacement NN3DS screens? I don't mind whether they're IPS or not, I only care about whether or not the colors display correctly! Also, don't get me started on dead pixels! Thanks

I got the same Mad Catz PS2 memory card shown in the video, plugged my PS2 back recently and luckily enough everything still works for me, guess i got the only functional one they ever made 🤣

@@NeRo-uwu Wrong! There's 2 that work and we own them

@@carternance9386 awesome haha

@@carternance9386 I had a 16mb MadCatz ps2 memory card and I'm 100% confident that if I found it, it would have ALL of the save data I put on it over 10 years. That thing was a monster.

I had one that just never worked, ever.

They still broke even if you didn't use them.

Yup, everyone had the Mad Cats controllers for guest. NGL I did occasionally use the 'turbo' feature on some games, but first party controllers were always better.

“hehehe let’s get money from unaware families” probably

@@MrSkerpentine The sad part is: chances are, that was what they were thinking.

avgn did a episode covering the worst mobile game that fans pissed that this is not AVGN

Even though AVGN primarily reviews bad video games and sometimes bad gaming accessories, I'm surprised James hasn't done an AVGN video about Mad Catz controllers yet.

@@ThunderDragonRandy Probably because there wouldn't be enough material. As shown here, their 16Bit era stuff was decent, which is the main niche of the AVGN videos. Also as shown here, most of their controllers were just "like the official one, but worse", and it's hard to make that entertaining... which was, honestly, kind of my issue with *this* video. I mean, I loved the personal anecdotes and the running gags and whatnot, but half of these were just "hey, here's a two decades old broken controller we bought off the internet, and guess what, it's old and broken".

oh man, I'm sorry bro

I had one of their GameCube memory cards and it was pretty good, but I guess it's also pretty hard to screw up a memory card

@@The73MPL4R you say that but mine broke after like a year of use and was just needing to be formatted at random so much after that that the family just trashed the thing was stuck piggy backing off the 8 remaining blocks of the other memory card because the other 51 blocks of the 59 were taken up by a single game of my dad's

Me still using my SFV shadaloo stick after all these years, they really locked in for them and nothing else

@@PizzamonkeyFGC honestly I think half of it is that it was mostly sanwa parts, they just put them in a box. it's the opposite of a trojan horse

Heroin truly doesn't pay for itself. - MadCatz CEO, presumably.

yeah, that is how slomo works. You keep pausing and unpausing the game. Because while it's paused, it doesn't move forward.

I remeber those neon controllers in fact i recall the "airflow" controllers that required a second connection to work. And also the afterglow. One guy who hated those didnt tknow that he brought one for his xbox and shorted it out thinking the usb port was something to charge it via a quick charger. Seen many things that should not be happening in housecalls in fact I even found out that someone tried to wash an entire toaster in the sink as the call was about a toaster that was smoking badly. When I heard "i tried to wash it under the sink" and also when he said he was going to add water to a vaccuum cleaner as he thought that was a wet vac after I left I went right to that buildings landlord and gave them a heads up.

1. Transparent platic is cheeper (the pigment costs money, and some colors cost a LOT. This is also why most modern cars come in black, white, and silver. The other colors cost like 50 more bucks.) 2. Those used to be like, cool. To boomers. Because blue LEDs were a huge problem and used to be a sign of something being very expensive. It's like how we had that whole "everything is Jello now" period of cooking in the US. Before Jello, gelatin dishes were for rich people, suddenly they were cheep. See? 3. This is just good old fashioned Chineese Manufacturing :D 4. There's no real excuse for this one. 5. I mean, it did, technically, allow for the same effect as slowmo... Bit of a hack but, if it works...

@@MeepChangeling Transparent plastic looks cooler

I'll be the first to say we need more transparent controllers on the market these days, I like the translucent effect and seeing he PCB. But that's probably the only thing they did even remotely right, or perhaps harmless I should say.

i just think it's funny that third party nerf blasters generally outperform genuine nerf blasters these days

@@microArc Now they do, but back when they were first released, the third-party stuff sucked. I never played Nerf, but I had friends that did. So my mom would overhear us talk about so-and-so's third party nerf gun and how much it sucks. My mom tended to eavesdrop quite a bit, but it was more for information gathering than to really snoop on us.

Your mom is legendary. Never put her in a nursing home. That's third party housing. She deserves first/second party housing for recognizing the need for first party equipment.

@@nate6045 I know, right? Lol

Go mom! We stan 1st party moms!

I’ve actually seen a video before of a dude who replaced the steering wheel of his *actual car* with a rope system and I feel like it’s probably still more responsive somehow

@@MrSkerpentine damn

I also had a madcatz wheel with the dicky gear stick too!

Road and tracks need for speed. Back when teens thought the nsx was cool. We had the dramcast one and that was when we got test dive 6. Our store with the saturn purchase also had a deal to get three free games in a three pack and I had got the one with sega rally, virtual cop 2 and daytona usa and even played as the horse which seemed to be the OP car lol

@@furrysourcecode9809 Good taste teens still think the NSX is cool, specially the pop-up headlights one.

Mine lasted until 2019, so you may want to save those saves. I lost my Windwaker, Enter the Matrix, an almost complete run of Viewtiful Joe (No small task as you may know) RE4 and REmake files and it nearly broke me.

@@steverye8872 The only ones I'm really worried about losing are my Chao gardens from Sonic Adventure DX, but you have a good point.

@@gnbman I recently backed up my gamecube animal crossing saves. It's pretty easy to install homebrew software on the wii and load gamecube saves onto the SD card. I know they also make SD to memory card adapters but I've never used them.

@@TheZoraman I would rather transfer them to my PC and access them through Dolphin. I don't know how complicated that is, though. Or is that what you were getting at?

@@gnbman When I moved my saves from my game cube memory card to my SD card, they were saved in a format that dolphin understood. Dolphin was able to read the saves just fine.

my mad catz for ps2 (also works on my ps1) is still working to this day! it used to be horrible, but after a few years the sticks and buttons have worn down alot and they now require almost zero force to push or move around, it feels horrible at first, but for certain games it is actually preferable over a real one lol

i've had my fair share of shitty controller. the only time i took one back the same day wasn't mad catz though. i can't remember the brand but it was for the PS1 and banana shaped, the d-pad was tarocious, trying to play any beat em up was a nightmare with it

Cue the controller being thrown into the trash

I have one for the GameCube It's fallen apart but it all works still 😊😅

Your left analog stick was just like most Triple A games nowadays! 😂

Interesting. I wasn't aware that modern 3rd party stuff was considered decent nowadays. I've definitely stayed away from them as the ones I used in the past (at least two of them were MadCatz, maybe more) all died within a month.

Got myself an 8bitdo mainly for PC gaming (primarily for older PC games that play more smoothly with a game pad instead of the keyboard) and I love it. Nice high quality controller, and the companion app actually came in handy for remapping in some select games that joytokey was a bit finicky with.

I have a PowerA wired Xbox controller for my PC, and aside from the sticks feeling a little cheaper, it's pretty much identical to an actual Xbox controller.

You’re not wrong. I instinctively assume some random Chinese amalgamation of letters for a brand will be junk. I personally blame all the amazon knockoffs of literally everything now. I’ve never felt third party molded plastic products that actually felt nice. I will say, I miss the turbo buttons for cheating better.

@@vtubersubs3803 Still a mixed bag. Some are really good, some are still crap.

I have a MvC3 tournament edition stick and this thing still is amazing.

I feel like part of it might have been to avoid possible lawsuits since controller designs are owned by the console companies so if it's too similar to the original controller then it might open them to legal issues. For example, Nintendo had pattened the D-pad design from their NES controller, which is why all the consoles up until the Xbox One had inferior D-pads.

They did make a variety of pretty standard no frills controllers. But they weren't much better than when they tried something wacky. Something would just flat out stop functioning after a few weeks. I had a bunch of them. They really took the lower cost/lower quality motto to heart.

im mean.... i have violated a playstation controller

the funny thing is that they were capable of quality, they made some good arcade style fightsticks! they could do it! they just... didn't.

Their business model was going to OEMs in Hong Kong and Shenzhen and hiring the lowest bidders to handle the entire design and manufacture process while they just did the marketing and distributing.

You, my friend, are a saint!

Nah, that makes sense. You make do with what you have, or make do without. Some places be like that.

Nah, sometimes you gotta make do with what you got, or make do with out.

@@ItsDaJaxwhat’re you saying “Nah” to?

I could see it working with the metal and electronic components, but I imagine the cheap plastic they used was something you just had to live with.

At the time it was cheaper to buy another control that is if they needed it on the same day. And some of these consoles want the offical controller in order to program the third party as I found out when I had a ps3 and ps4 the controller would not work without the official controller. Pawn shops were selling those for the price of an official controller.

i like how the controllers are dogsht but somehow they made some of the best gaming mouses around

I was able to use reverse psychology in my own group because the worst controller made this godawful squeaky noise if you pressed it just right, and instead of playing a game properly, I had more fun just making obnoxious noises with my controller until they took it away from me and gave me a proper one to play with.

I used a wavebird and gave my friend a wired first party GameCube Controller. Probably the kindest thing I could ever do.

@@UtushoReiuji😂😂😂

@@UtushoReiuji That's one way to make sure you don't get a knockoff controller, just make them regret giving it to you in the first place.

I looked up the modern stuff, apparently the RAT 8 is a good mouse especially if you like macros. But it may not have reached the gaming audience it wanted

@@RusticRonnie???

Was looking for this comment! The official arcade fightsticks they made for SF IV/V were legit!

Madcatz TE sticks were incredibly but from what i remember modern madcatz sticks suck balls

No I bought one and it’s broken

I remember they had an official stick for Killer Instinct for the Xbox One, which at that time cost almost as much as the console!

Arcade stick manufacturers will often use buttons and sticks from specialty companies like sanwa instead of making them in house which would explain the noticeable difference in build quality

I had a madcatz 360 controller that was just a slimmer, slightly pointier version of the regular one and it was my favorite. Edit: It looked like the microcon one, but wasnt as small, nor did it have those black ridges. I think I preferred it to the original because it was wired unlike the original.

Because arcade sticks are easy, just a few buttons and a dpad. Kinda hard to screw up. And they don't really move. You just need a hard shell, a motherboard and some buttons

@@milkymilk53 controllers are not complicated either, They are the same thing, buttons on a board. And controllers back then are not as complicated compared today, no touch pad, no sensors etc.

when your dad's the incredible hulk

@@Romanticoutlaw LOL. He beat the sh!t out of those things.

you dad should stop throwing controllers.

@@Ferrochrome12 He never threw one. All broken by forces applied during "normal" play.

It wouldn't be as funny. Logitech didn't have QUITE the toilet reputation MadCatz does. Or maybe that makes it funnier.

There was some project where they used an game controller on a U.S. sub. They stuck with official Xbox controllers from Microsoft, though.

Honestly, it probably would save lives because the sub would never make it to the water before the controller broke.

😂😂😂

Inside parts were mad cats shell was just logitech.

Probably because, compared to the larger gamer demographic, fighting game players are a tiny segment. Fighting game enthusiasts invested enough to get specialist controllers are an even smaller segment of that segment. MadCatz might've made some really good controllers for that niche, but they were a big company, and those sales could hardly keep them afloat when the rest of their portfolio ranged from unreliable to downright bad, with a rather negative reputation that went back decades.

Yea thanks to Marc man working with them to make those

@@Horvath_Gabor I think it still does them an immense disservice to not even touch upon it here.

The arcade sticks were a big part of the mad Catz brand. They had so many SKUs at the release of SFIV. I loved my Mc arcade stick.

Yep had good times with the PS3 fight stick.

I get a weird feeling in my stomach when I remember how, for as long as videogames have existed, it has been an industry of locusta getting rich on the naivity of well-meaning people

Let the friends play with the crap controller.... they don't like it, they can buy their own hahaha.

@@CErra310 It's jealousy. Now enjoy being poor but morally righteous.

That's also just how people are when they see cheap things in general. They assume they're getting a deal because it costs less, when sometimes it costs less because it's not quality.

the mom just cares it shuts the kid up for the least price

The DC had one of the worst-designed controllers in history. (Not in durability, but functions and layout) It’s damning that Mad Catz was worth the trade-offs.

@@johnmickey5017 The DC pad isn't bad, just lacking buttons. When the fucking Saturn 3D pad was a better option...

For a major console, I’d consider it one of the worst - fewer buttons than its predecessors, the N64 or PS1, and its own immediate prior gen, the Sega Saturn. Tiny dpad in a terrible location. A single analog stick. The cord comes out of the wrong end… Good analog triggers, super responsive and reliable, but not suited for the generation of games it was delivering.

@@johnmickey5017 I would only consider it "the worst" if it didn't work for the games on the system. Which games made specifically for Dreamcast worked just fine, so... cope and seethe?

@@johnmickey5017 The Dreamcast original pad has some massive advantages and some drawbacks. One is that the stick is long throw, very high precision, and long term durable like nothing else. It also hints you into 8 principal directions by modulating the return force, which to me was helpful since on PS2 pad i couldn't get a feel to which way i was pushing, but on Dreamcast i didn't have issues within a short time. But you need to push it down to overcome return force modulation and achieve precision, which is a drawback if you switch to other controllers. Octagonal external gate like on Gamecube would have potentially been better than force modulation. The stick cap also tended to etch itself into your thumb with sharp protrusions. The other advantage is that it's insanely comfy to hold due to shape and slim wings, at least when you don't need the D-pad, and the controls are close to the edge, good for my little hands. There hasn't been something so comfortable to hold before or since i think. The long throw precision triggers were revolutionary as well, advantage for racing games, drawback for most things else. There isn't much good that could be said about the D-Pad, it's clearly an afterthought, it's quite uneven side to side. Lack of second stick and two extra buttons, which were electronically foreseen but not implemeneted, is a hindsight drawback, like it wasn't a problem in 1999 but it would be one in 2001, but also i can't think of where they could place the second stick comfortably without ruining the controller. Though i feel they were probably going to redesign it and issue a dual stick one if they continued manufacturing the console past 2001. Cord? Who cares where it comes out of? There is a retention clip for it behind the rumble pack socket if you feel it's wrong. To me bottom cord has been good though.

No one needed a specific Van Halen release with that ugly as heck GH3 character design. But they made it happen.

because money.

Activision killed both peripheral-based rhythm games, _and_ Neversoft, in one fell swoop? Damn, now I have more reason to hate them, (For the Neversoft thing, at least.)

Not even two years, 2009 alone had GH Metallica, GH Smash Hits, Band Hero, GH5, DJ Hero, and GH Van Halen. 6 games in one year!

And now the people who made Rock Band are all part of Epic Games. So...Mad Catz Fortnite controller? 😂

Probably one of the funniest lines spoke by a human being

My brain just goes to the supermarket scene from Fatal Deviation

Remind me again what video that was from

@@CHATNOCEDA PS1 accessories

I was hoping another Caddy fan would be here 😂😂

1:01:18 and this. Would've been funny if he landed on his butt after he tripped.

@@AdriaticTokoru Apparently, it ain't absurd enough that the MadCatz dance pad (used for for Dance Dance Revolution) is as phony as a three-dollar dill.

first vibration function :D

Ah yes, the controller came standard with a pre-dislodged plastic threaded hole.

Dayum! For real? 😳

It's Gamestop. Nobody should be surprised.

To be fair, getting cheap stuff that wasn't junk was very difficult back then. It wasn't like they actually wanted to put their brand on garbage. Trade with China was much worse in the past. They probably got a good sample controllers and didn't find out how bad things would get until they started getting shipments in. Its also not like they could just find a better supplier since they'd probably be in the same position again.

Playing Big The Cat levels on MadCatz controllers: 😐😒 Your Big The Cat save data being destroyed by a MadCatz memory card: 🤬🤬

Really? I still have my saves from 2005 and play gc on a wii. I should back them up then

Funny thing about that I still have a madcatz dreamcast card that was made as a dupe with an sonic adventure save. 100 perecnt along with shuffle, airfforce delta, test drive 6, super runabout, speed devils, vigialante 8 second offense, evolution worlds, msr, etc and a gameshark save as some of those codes had to be updated and also chao data. There's a guy on ebay who sells these dreamcast to pc converters that even power and allow one to copy off the memory card. Just like my ps2 memory card saves ive been using that ps2 memory card reader meant for the ps3 to copy old data from the ps2 and ps1 cards.

Funnily enough, the mad catz memory card I had back in the day still works perfectly fine. Did they have like a higher likelihood of failing? Seems to be a crapshoot as to whether or not they'll work right or not judging by others having issues with it while I never had any yet.

I literraly had this same thing happen with my adventure save lol The GameCube remote was horrible is smash bros especially

Oh snap!

I got four of the OG dreamcast controllers back when pawn shops carried these things. Level 7 games has a ton of retro consoles some of them even got an upgrade and they are at reasonable prices. I got one of those modded gamecubes from them where it also takes care of that missing gba player disk issue. In fact it also super mario eclipse and sunburn and starfox adventures amethyst edition.

Really!. Wow.

I wire Dreamcast pads that’s not how that works at all, it’s simply a piece of debris that can carry a voltage signal get stuck in the controller plug and fries the console by bridging incorrect contacts causing a shortage, also fun fact the madcatz dreampad is actually the best controller for competitive fighting games in Dreamcast once you pad hack it it has the 2nd lowest latency out of every Dreamcast option, the only pcb that’s faster is the Sega agetec green goblin , anyway no one in these comments knows anything about madcatz those terrible 360 and ps3 pads were only sold so they could fund making their arcade sticks which are highly regarded and are still in use to this day 15 years later, they sell on eBay for like 150 sometimes but yall are just casuals who wanna complain

​@@bloodthirstydeitysht9244making one good controller is the sign of an amazing company? 😂

bruh no way same happened to me and my little brother after that we begged our parents to get us a new one and begged harder for it to be a official sony one lmao

They were designed by Saitek. Watch the video.

@@F40PH-2CAT read the comment again. you're talking about a Flight sim controller, he was talking about an Arcade stick for street fighter that everyone still uses today. (i still use mine after 10+ years) it's very sturdy and definitely set the bar for Stick manufacturers. Saitek is a FLIGHT sim manufacturer, not a stick manufacturer.

@@F40PH-2CAT No they were not. Not the fight sticks. These were designed in house by a number of fighting game players who were actually working in the company, plus input from Capcom, and contained the actual hardware used in arcade cabinets in Japan.

I was gonna say the same, the fighting sticks are really good!

Their 6 button fight pads were the best way for 360 owners to actually play the game without getting curb stomped because they had a decent D-pad.

Stik, what are YOU doing here.

Still have a SSF4 TES+ working perfectly fine in 2024, their fightsticks were really good back in the day.

Literally came here to see if anyone frome the fgc was commenting lol

The fight sticks kept Madcatz alive for several years and was undoubtedly their best products

Indeed, they also made a decent gamepad with ghost recon branding.

I slid straight to the comments to see if anyone was defending the TE’s honor 🫡

Yep the BMW model. Build solid engines, get a good reputation, then replace as many parts as you can with cheap, recycled plastic that crumbles from heat stress. Charge people hundreds for a single cheap plastic part. At the same time make sure to overcomplicate your engineering so the engine is full of rubber gaskets, and awful valve seals that require rebuilding the entire thing at 100k miles to force people to buy a new one

​@@EarlFaulk don't forget, a subscription model for features that should come standard (such as heated seats).

​@@EarlFaulk This is what they consider "the ultimate driving machine"?

@@jmal Maybe the BMW fanboys do. I consider German cars to be overengineered gaudy trinkets

@@EarlFaulk That's disrespectful to BMW. These crazy "video game controllers" were probably made by hand in a sewer.

the keyboard controller is actually pretty good too, speaking as someone who has one

Also, adding, you can, at least as I know with the Wii one, use it as a MIDI controller just using the USB dongle! I bought it specifically for that purpose. And it works really good.

And the keyboard gameplay is actually fun

@@AuroraNemoia Wish that was true for the Xbox version. Since it uses the 360's native wireless module, they didn't even bother with a USB port. So it's MIDI cable with batteries or nothing.

And it had four controller slots, so it was the console with the highest demand for controllers!

@@rayelgatubelo Yes that is so true !!!!

​​@@rayelgatubeloThe others had peripherals to give you more slots too. The demand came from the garbage stick that stopped working properly after a week.

This N64 game isn't called Irritating Electric Stick for nothing!

The ones that try and replicate normal N64 controllers maybe, but I still swear by my Ultra Racer!

yeah i had one that cost around £200 i think, it was quality bit of kit, very well made.

Don't bring the Lynx down to that level.

The linx was actually good. And the jaguar was at least so bad it’s good.

The Lynx is awesome though

Bubsy too. A Jaguar is a felid technically, this is why Shou doesn’t hang out with Chen, Orin, and Mike as much as Momiji and Kagerou do with Aunn (also half-felid) and Kyoko. Shou’s relation to Mike is closer to Ran’s relation to Kyoko.

Don’t forget Tiger Electronics!