Dark Ride Posted July 21, 2004 Share Posted July 21, 2004 (edited) Genius MaxFire G-08XU Nothing special indeed. Bought it two weeks ago in a shop for $10 (very cheap).It has 8 buttons and a nice 2-axis direction pad. As you can see it's a USB gamepad, pretty much plug and play.You just turn on your pc, plug the controller in and Windows (WinXP, Win2k, Win ME, WinNT & Win98) recognizes the pad without any problems. If you consider the price the pad is very good.Looks nice and feels good in your hands.I only have a few games that actualy support gamepads.The reason I bought the gamepad actualy is to play emulated games.All emulators had no problems with the pad (Zsnes ,Snes9x, ePSXe, Project64 ,VisualBoy Advance, ...etc). I played some PC games with it too (the few I have with gamepad support), like: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 and Silent Hill 2 and it worked great too. Overall, in it's price range I would give it a 9/10. The pros: * looks somewhat nice * easy to use (plug and play) * great compatibilty * nice shape (hand-friendly) The cons: * has no start/select buttons in front (but you can use keyboard as extension) * maybe the cable is a bit too short - but aren't all gamepad cable too short ;) Edited July 21, 2004 by Dark Ride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Ride Posted July 22, 2004 Author Share Posted July 22, 2004 No replys ?? C'mon ppl, the pad isn't that bad :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted July 22, 2004 MVC Share Posted July 22, 2004 looks, like a design rip off from the microsoft sidewinder gamepad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Ride Posted July 23, 2004 Author Share Posted July 23, 2004 looks, like a design rip off from the microsoft sidewinder gamepad never seen the sidewinder.can you post a pic of it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted July 23, 2004 MVC Share Posted July 23, 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Ride Posted July 27, 2004 Author Share Posted July 27, 2004 Aren't most of todays gamepads "design rip offs" of the good old PSX gamepad ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Ride Posted October 17, 2004 Author Share Posted October 17, 2004 Just bumping the thread because of all those gamers who are short on money (like me :p ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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