Wii Super Famicom Classic Controller on sale to general public
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 19th 2009 5:51PM
posted Feb 19th 2009 5:51PM
[Thanks, Marcus]
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'drools'
I am totally going to get one of these
I have it and it's frickin awesome. God bless having friends in Japan!
I was adding points to my cousins Wii the other day when I thought about this...
but now I have a better idea...
How about an adapter that plugs into the Wii which accepts all the controllers the Wii allows you to play the games of on VC?
A Genesis, SNES, NES, NEO GEO and Turbographx16 connector to an adapter so I can use legacy controllers.
Uhm... couldn't you buy an entire SNES with original controllers and a whole library of games for less than that??
A whole library of games? Not likely, Chuckles...you ought to go on eBay and see just how much all of that is going for these days.
Not to mention that Virtual Console games are uprezzed to 480p and look a lot better on a newer television set than an actual SNES hooked up to one.
I paid $40 for mine off ebay
$80 bucks. eh, it WOULD earn you at least a few points with your friends.
Not worth it. You might as well buy a classic and put its guts in an old SNES controller. THAT'S street cred with friends.
@bigd
yeah good point. plus, if you actually showed your friends this, they'd probably be like "wow! you stuffed a wii controller into a snes controller?!" and then you'd have to explain that no, you didnt, and they'll be all dissapointed. or at least less impressed...
Indeed, for $80 you can buy a used super nes and a couple of controls.
And for $30 you can buy a polystation, including controls, pistol and "300" games :-P
W-what the? did I sit in that Delorean for too long?
I need this, it'll take me back to my child hood...except Super Nintendo Style
In PAL territories this is what SNES pads looked like (I played in UK before the US). I never understood why they switched from colorful to shades of purple in the US...
Actually, I read awhile back that the NA SNES pads was changed so that one set of the a/b x/y buttons would be convex, and the other concave since players responded more to touch than the actual colour of the button. Plus it looks less toyish :)
$80 for a controller?
And I thought the wireless controllers for the 360 were a ripoff...
Actually I'm not even sure you can call this a controller, considering it still requires the Wii remote to be attached to it.
Doesn't the word RECESSION mean anything to anyone? $80 for a SNES Wii controller...maybe a year ago.
every time something costs money someone responds with "fffffffffffffff RECESSION dlfksdddddddddddddddddddddddddd"
nobody cares shut up
$80 is overpriced. Besides you can pick up an adapter to connect your SNES and NES controllers to the Wii via the GC dock to play VC and GC control enabled Wii games.
$80 is overpriced. Besides you can pick up an adapter to connect your SNES and NES controllers to the Wii via the GC dock to play VC and GC control enabled Wii games.
this is awesome!
Make an SNES controller for 360 that we can use for SF4. That will get you some real street credit son.
Yeah, none of the rest of the world has issues shipping to the US, which can't be said about the US and the "lawyers"...
no kidding!
Haha.
Yeah. I'm bitter too about those Engadget contests.
Hm... I got mine for free from Nintendo. What did I do right? :D Hehe. I like teasing non-members of the Club. ;P
Funny. These things used to cost 30 shipped last year. Now they are all 80+ on ebay. Go figure. Too much for a controller that still needs to be plugged into the wiimote.
Omg... i'd save the bucks and get a ps3/xbox instead
That's really cool, and I own a Wii and love it, the only problem is that I made the grave, grave mistake of "trying out" World of Warcraft for the first time last month, and now it is the only game I play lol. I have a PS3 and a Wii, collecting dust right now and my other PC games, we'll I don't even remember where I put their icons on my desktop.
Stay away kids, WoW conquers all!
I wouldn't mind receiving this as the bonus Club Nintendo gift for reaching platinum status. *crosses fingers*
omg nostalgia orgy
too bad it's so expensive
pwned!
sold out :(
http://www.ppl-pilot.com/ - I'd rather have one of these ten times over than this Super Fami clone pad.
THE BUTTON COLORS! This would've been cool.
I did a writeup on it a month or so ago, with some controller broken down photos.
http://fathertom.net/hardwii/?p=320
-FTen
Or you can get this for $20
http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=31
And use a real SNES controller
oooooooooooooooh, baby.
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