Do you have any experience with BS, gimmicky gaming peripherals?

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

While I do feel bad for kids - and their parents - who were scammed into buying junk like the SEGA Activator and the Rollin' Rocker, I don't trust angry-style reviewers who dismiss them outright — I refuse to believe that they didn't have any functionality whatsoever and were allowed to release in (or near) completely useless states.

Let's set the record straight, alright?

If you have/had ANY peripheral from NES to PS1, please share your experiences with it. The more gimmicky and overblown, the better!

Takk!

 

[Deleted member 913503]

Yeah i got a Game Shark for Game Boy Color that didn't work right. Ended up getting a Monster Brain instead after bringing it back to the store. Monster Brain worked GREAT. :)

 

[Isegrim]

I'm amazed how I ended up with this with my dad just buying it for me at a whim. I only had 3 games for it, Falsion, Highway Star and Famicom Grand Prix 2: 3d Hot Rally.

The 3d was simplistic but for some reason, I loved playing 3d Hot Rally again and again with the 3d so I wouldn't say it was wasted.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Yeah i got a Game Shark for Game Boy Color that didn't work right. Ended up getting a Monster Brain instead after bringing it back to the store. Monster Brain worked GREAT. :)

First time hearing about it.

It's kind of a relief knowing that GS wasn't the only option.

 

[Badseed Badseed]

I was tricked into getting this BS controller...

and it was the best thing EVER!!!

 

[Deleted member 913503]

First time hearing about it.

It's kind of a relief knowing that GS wasn't the only option.

Monster Brain only works for Pokemon Gold and Silver.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Monster Brain only works for Pokemon Gold and Silver.

Wow.

That's... Oddly specific.

I kinda love it.

 

[Deleted member 913503]

Wow.

That's... Oddly specific.

I kinda love it.

yeah it lets you edit everything from items to pokemon including moves, stats, gender, ect. ALSO it has extra features. On the cart itself it has a little black button that when pressed enters color mode for old game boy games. This allows you to switch between both preset color pallets and your own custom ones to make game boy games look any way you want. NOT ONLY THAT, it also has a feature that lets you speed up game boy games to make them run twice as fast! It works for most of the game boy library. It also doubles as a memory card that holds saves on it. It's so dang cool!

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

yeah it lets you edit everything from items to pokemon including moves, stats, gender, ect. ALSO it has extra features. On the cart itself it has a little black button that when pressed enters color mode for old game boy games. This allows you to switch between both preset color pallets and your own custom ones to make game boy games look any way you want. NOT ONLY THAT, it also has a feature that lets you speed up game boy games to make them run twice as fast! It works for most of the game boy library. It also doubles as a memory card that holds saves on it. It's so dang cool!

It IS cool! I would have loved to have something like that during my true Pokefan era.

Thanks for letting me know about this gem, dude!

 

[Deleted member 913503]

It IS cool! I would have loved to have something like that during my true Pokefan era.

Thanks for letting me know about this gem, dude!

you are welcome. Also the name is super specific. There was the original "Brain Boy" for Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow. "Monster Brain" is the sequel to that and both are made by Pelican.

 

[Bakuma1997]

In my PSX days we buyed a Playstation controller, it was... not exactly great, had to refund it since no one could make it work, i remember it had a sort of sphere in the left side

 

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I used to always try to save money with cheap game controllers. But unfortunately, their quality was also very cheap. Well, that's how I learned: it's better to buy original goods than cheap stuff.

 

[Deleted member 913503]

even though the cart says Brain Boy, this was the label for my Monster Brain for Gold and Silver.

Then there's the original blue one for Red Blue and Yellow

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

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even though the cart says Brain Boy, this was the label for my Monster Brain for Gold and Silver.

Then there's the original blue one for Red Blue and Yellow
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Awesome!!! Looks sleek as hell, too.

Genuinely annoyed that I hadn't heard of this stuff before.

 

[DiRtY-StEvE]

Yeah i got a Game Shark for Game Boy Color that didn't work right. Ended up getting a Monster Brain instead after bringing it back to the store. Monster Brain worked GREAT. :)

I remember getting the first gameboy GameShark when it came out. Was in middle school when the first Pokémon came out. I literally sold kids Master Balls, Rare Candy, and specific Pokémon.

 

[Graw]

I had a game genie for the nes that eventually caused the flashing screen of death and would only work with the game genie after that.

I also have a third party n64 controller pak with two toggle switches on the front of it that let's you swap between four different pages of storage basically making it four times the size of an official controller pak. I tried scouring the internet for a picture but I couldn't find one. It actually worked really well, too well, I had pretty much every single save game for every N64 game I'd ever owned, rented or borrowed that used the controller pak saved on it. Then I played Aidyn Chronicles and went to save the game and the game froze so I hit reset and when it booted up again every save on every page of the controller pak was gone. It was pretty brutal. Basically all the games I'd finished and completed, unlocked all the multiplayer levels and extra stuff like that all gone. Like years of play time just erased in a moment. I still don't even know how all the pages got erased because the n64 basically just treated each page like a separate controller pak. The n64 treated switching pages the same as just pulling the controller pak out.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I had a game genie for the nes that eventually caused the flashing screen of death and would only work with the game genie after that.

I also have a third party n64 controller pak with two toggle switches on the front of it that let's you swap between four different pages of storage basically making it four times the size of an official controller pak. I tried scouring the internet for a picture but I couldn't find one. It actually worked really well, too well, I had pretty much every single save game for every N64 game I'd ever owned, rented or borrowed that used the controller pak saved on it. Then I played Aidyn Chronicles and went to save the game and the game froze so I hit reset and when it booted up again every save on every page of the controller pak was gone. It was pretty brutal. Basically all the games I'd finished and completed, unlocked all the multiplayer levels and extra stuff like that all gone. Like years of play time just erased in a moment.

I feel you, man.

That's horrible — it happened to me on emulators, but never like that.

 

[Graw]

I feel you, man.

That's horrible — it happened to me on emulators, but never like that.

Yeah it was the multiplayer stuff that really sucked. I had a bunch of games like Beetle Aventure Racing and Duke Nukem Zero Hour and a bunch of other ones that had basically a barebones minimal multiplayer until you unlocked everything by playing the game and a bunch of stuff was pretty hard to unlock. It ruined the fun for a lot of games we all played together.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

I cannot find this anywhere online but in 2007 we had ps2 bootleg peripheral where your arms and legs are the controller. You strap a strap to each limb, and each limb controls one face button. It was advertised as a way to control tekken cuz tekken mapped each face button to a limb on your character, so it was meant to be “immersive” but my older relatives found it a pain and just play-wrestled and ignored the game all-together.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I cannot find this anywhere online but in 2007 we had ps2 bootleg peripheral where your arms and legs are the controller. You strap a strap to each limb, and each limb controls one face button. It was advertised as a way to control tekken cuz tekken mapped each face button to a limb on your character, so it was meant to be “immersive” but my older relatives found it a pain and just play-wrestled and ignored the game all-together.

That's almost better, honestly.

 

[MajesticSiN]

I had a genesis controller that didn't have a d pad and it was supposed to be like touch or whatever, it was shit and banished to second player use only.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

it was shit and banished to second player use only.

Friends were made, I'm sure

 

[Anoobis]

I had a madcatz memory card for the PS1 that had multiple cards' worth of memory, sorted into pages. The thing was colicky, and every once in a while, it would wipe either a page or the whole thing. I seem to remember FF8, Metal Gear Solid, and Spyro the Dragon being particularly effected, and I played through them multiple times to restore my lost completed files.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I had a madcatz memory card for the PS1 that had multiple cards' worth of memory, sorted into pages. The thing was colicky, and every once in a while, it would wipe either a page or the whole thing. I seem to remember FF8, Metal Gear Solid, and Spyro the Dragon being particularly effected, and I played through them multiple times to restore my lost completed files.

Sounds like a monkey's paw.

 

[QrtzQdrnt]

I used to have a PS Move. It was actually kinda fun, even though I don't really like motion control games. Sports Champions was honestly one of the most fun games I've played