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Stuff I bought on eBay.

Recently I really got into my old Nintendo Wii which I near used. I installed Home Brew and really wanted a game pad to rock some old classic games, so I went on eBay to find a controller.

The first thing I saw on eBay was 7 dollar controllers with no branding on them, latter after hours of searching for controllers I found local controllers to cost about $60-80 each and importing a controller from America would cost about the same, so I decided to try this unofficial 7 dollar controller from China. I ordered a package of two classic pros for about 14 dollars.

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Weeks latter I got my controllers, I open the package and found two nice white controllers wrapped in thin Styrofoam wrapping held together by a rubber band, I was in no surprise as I have ordered may cheap unofficial products from China before.

I connected a controller to my Wii and fired it up, the controller seemed to work with the Wii’s menu just fine and with the Wii games I tried but it did not work with Home Brew where it mattered. At times it seemed to work but many times the Wii would crash. I latter did many Internet searches to discover that Home Brew has no support for controllers not made by Nintendo, I was very disappointed.

At least the controllers worked with Wii games, but the d-pad on both controllers was of very poor quality, it was very difficult to hold two directions at once to move in angles. I even opened a controller to take a look at it, reseated the buttons just to discover it was designed that way, the unofficial controller was just poor quality.

I was dead set on an official controller and getting one. I found a great deal on eBay for an official Classic Pro controller in retail box from Japan, I ordered it of course. The controller came and I was happy to open it. The official controller looked just like the unofficial controller but the official controller has a different plastic texture and the d-pad had a noticeable difference in feel. I connected the official controller to my Wii and fired up the Brew, right away the controller worked and I could use either the d-pad or analog stick.

In the end it didn’t hart to try an unofficial product, but nothing beats the real thing. Don’t buy this unofficial controller, it doesn’t completely work, the d-pad doesn’t work properly, buyer beware.

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