PowerA Wired Officially Licensed GameCube Style Controller/Super Smash Bros. Purple

I love that they made these! it's much more affordable to get one of these controllers, especially for multiplayer games on the one switch console. THey are also quite a bit more sturdy than the switch joycon controllers so I'd imagine it would also be great for kids. I feels just slightly cheaper and lighter than the old original gamecube controllers but works just the same. Definitely worth it!

Before starting the review if you don’t want to fully read this I have attached a video of small clips showing all of the problems with the controller that does not appear to be broken I’d suggest buying the real deal instead of this alternative controller. This controller has only lasted me a single month. At first it seems like the perfect deal, a GameCube controller with an extra ZL button and other pro controller buttons, great! Except the problems first started when I was playing super smash brothers. The controller seemingly became unresponsive whenever playing super smash brothers. At first it was like any other controller but suddenly it just stopped working properly for no apparent reasoning when it is UNDAMAGED. Not only did the controls it used not match my ingame controller setup, but it also had buttons become completely unresponsive: - My A button didn’t work only when playing matches within the game even though I can literally use the menu -Stick jump setups didn’t work because it didn’t recognize up on the left control stick as a jump even though the left control stick was perfectly fine (how you navigate the menu after all) - L and R which is set to grabs suddenly decided to turn into shielding Keep in mind this is with any controller mapping you decide to choose when playing smash even when you don’t pick these set options (the A not working when playing games is one of the biggest worrying issues) - The + button doesn’t work on character select screen but works quite literally anywhere else. This wasn’t the end of problems I’ve faced with this controller. After not using it for smash for three days due to how a seemingly unbroken controller just decides to stop working only when playing games on the system (why buy a controller only for using menus....?) it faced a worse issue, DIRECTIONAL DRIFT. Not only did this controller get directional drift OUT OF NOWHERE after I tried to recalibrate the controller and failed (because it’s control sticks can’t even be recalibrated) but it’s drift is worse than my own joycons which I have owned for three years. It suddenly started to constantly drift to the left out of nowhere. But get this..... THE DRIFT IS ONLY ON THE HOME MENU. It doesn’t drift inside of games such as super smash brothers, only on the Nintendo switch home menu. Truly this is a terrible controller. You can’t navigate the switch’s built in home menu due to drift and you can’t play games because it purposely makes itself unresponsive when playing them. Trust me when I say just buy the official product, it doesn’t matter if Nintendo allow these people to sell these licensed. BUY A REAL GAMECUBE CONTROLLER OR PRO CONTROLLER. Again I will provide a video of clips showing how the controller is completely bugged and is seemingly unbroken and broken at the same time.

Works fine for about a month then the inputs start to slowly go down hill. Left stick drifts alot and can have negative effect when playing games like Super Smash bros. It's fien for most other games in my experience but for a controller designed for that one specific game it's very disappointing how quickly it becomes defective.

The digital triggers and extra bumper are a nice feature, but the control stick started producing erroneous inputs not long after purchase. Specifically, it will randomly trigger Up inputs to the point where even navigating menus becomes difficult.

Fantastic GameCube like controller, best one on the market besides the official original controller. Triggers have the correct travel, buttons feel right and has home and capture buttons. A great option if your looking for a GameCube controller with pro controller buttons.

Totally worth it. Much easier to handle than the joy cons and no fear of any batteries dieing as it is wired.

(Liked colour) But that does it for the good the yellow C Stick drifting and the buttons work if they are in the mood.

I wanted to wait a while before writing this review. I wanted to give the controller a shot. The first month or so was quite good; I was able to play Smash and a number of other games I have using it and it was very responsive. I was so impressed that I bought another one for my girlfriend. Then the C-stick began tilting upwards. I thought this was some fluke and tried restarting the system, unplugging and replugging the controller itself, went to the Switch's settings to recalibrate the controller (as of this writing you cannot recalibrate these controllers through the Switch). Then within another month of buying the second controller the same thing happened to that one! The controllers are literally unusable as it will put in inputs you do not want. It's the first time I ever bought anything from this company and I was initially pleased to see a full-on recreation of a controller I loved using when I was a teenager. But this recreation is a pile of junk. Please save your money and buy a full-fledged Nintendo first-party product instead - at least you'll get a manufacturer's guarantee of return within a year if a Nintendo controller goes buggy.

yeah it started to drift on the second time is used it, it's a risk to buy it but you can always send it back. the controller it self is very nice the cable is fairly long. if it didn't broke on the second day I would gave it a 5 star the buttons are good the feel everything. But then mine broke so yeah

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Fantastic, my son loves it.

this controller is lovely, exact same form factor as a traditional gamecube controller, except it has no rumble and an extra Z button on the left side (left bumper, whatever it's called), and the R and L buttons are fully digital, not analogue. the one problem i've had: i've been playing super mario 64, paper mario TTYD, and a few other similar games on emulator, and one of the actions involved in regular play (for bowser throws in 64, tube mode in TTYD, hammer spin in TTYD) is spinning the joystick around in a circle as quickly as possible. within a month of having the controller, the wear from doing this has made the joystick squeaky whenever it's pushed upwards and moved from side to side (like rubbing between 1 and 2 on a clock face) i've tried all sorts of things to help this, i've cleaned it out with alcohol, nothing works. i've got to look for the package materials to try to take advantage of the warranty, i hope i didn't throw them away. edit and update: powerA have a fantastic warranty, this is worth picking up for the warranty alone. just sent them detailed information in a warranty ticket on their website, receipt for the purchase, evidence of the flaw (a short video of the creaky analogue stick), and they emailed me back asking for my address. within about 3 days a new one showed up at my door. thanks powerA! can't recommend this brand enough, the price was very good at my time of purchase (usually between $15 and $20), and you're guaranteed to have a functioning controller for at least one year. as a fairly degenerate smasher who chews through all my controllers like a dog, it's really nice to have an option with a very similar form factor to a gamecube controller, USB and switch compatibility built in, and with a warranty like this. since i wrote this review (originally written in late 2020, it's now early 2024), i have utilized their warranty probably about 5-7 times on different controllers, and they've never denied me. it's way cheaper than a gamecube controller (usually the OEM SSBU one runs about $50 from japan?) and mayflash (usually $20), so i would recommend it for casuals, but you'll need to either use it with your switch, or if you're planning on using it for gamecube games, you will need to manually map all the buttons in dolphin, and if you're serious you'll eventually want a real OEM gcc for analogue triggers, but especially if you just want to mess around with smash, or with gamecube games on the switch, or to emulate gamecube games that don't heavily rely on analogue triggers, i would highly recommend this one. it is an unbeatable price for a usable controller with a stellar warranty that can get you playing a gamecube game on a gamecube-like controller within like two days. there is a chance that the controller you receive is defective, if it is, submit a warranty claim ASAP and get another, they are VERY understanding and will not shrug you off if you complain to them. seriously, they have the best customer support out of anyone I've ever seen, write in eirh evidence now with a few years of experience with this product under my belt, let me share some info for people who are interested in emulating gamecube games and see this as an alternative to getting a real gamecube controller. first of all, yes, you're right, if you don't want to spend $70 on the real deal, absolutely get this one. here's where it differs from the "real deal": basically the OEM gamecube controller had an R button that worked much like a shotgun, it had a long and smooth analogue range, and at the bottom of the throw, it had a hard clicky digital press. this was utilized beautifully in super mario sunshine because you could press analogue R without a digital click to "run and gun"—activate fludd without going into first person aiming mode—and then you could click the digital R to fully activate fludd, which gives you a crosshair and lets you pivot to aim. unfortunately, the switch's pro controller totally lacks the special analogue and digital triggers like the gamecube controller, instead it just has a digital trigger with a noticeably shorter throw. there's a few games super mario sunshine where you might struggle with this controller, because if you just don't map analogue R to its own button, you can't run and gun, and in this game, that is a debilitating limitation. for games like this, create a custom mapping in dolphin, and you basically want to do what they settled on for the switch port of super mario sunshine: face buttons, sticks, and dpad mapped normally. start/pause mapped to this controller's plus button. analogue R mapped to the powerA's R button (purple, right bumper) digital R mapped to ZR (gray, right trigger) Z mapped to L (purple the left bumper, which the OEM gamecube controller lacks) digital L mapped to powerA's ZL (gray, left trigger, vanilla mapping) analogue L can stay unmapped, or if you want to be able to press it, you can just map it to one of the extra utility buttons that the gamecube controller lacks: minus, home, capture, or a stick click what the aforementioned mapping does is gives you access to both options with a standard pro controller, which lacks the analogue triggers that make the gamecube controller so unique. it doesn't feel quite as satisfying and intuitive as "depress the trigger to turn on fludd, then pull the trigger to REALLY turn on fludd", instead it just separates those two options into two separate digital buttons to press, which is a fine compromise, but you'll probably want a mayflash adapter and an OEM gamecube controller if you care about experiencing the game "how it was back then in all its glory" etc., or if you're going to be speedrunning sunshine, or something like that. this compromise works absolutely fine for casuals who missed some games this generation and just want to see what it's about, just don't forget to map your triggers properly or else the game will feel VERY clunky and stop-and-go without a "run and gun" option. thanks for coming to my TED talk, hope it was helpful for any casuals who are looking to experience a golden era of nintendo games (the time period between figuring out 3D and figuring out motion controls 💀), have a nice day!

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