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Do you ever buy Non-Original accessories
sly345:
For controllers, obviously. There are a lot of good brands and sometimes, it was basically mandatory. A good example being the Master System. The original controllers are awful in every way. I got a Competition Pro branded Honey Bee and it's just so much better and more comfortable to use.
Same on the SNES, i got original controllers, but i prefer the Asciiware one (though that actually is officially licensed by Nintendo even)
Back in the day, i bought a whole stack of unbranded Playstation 1 Memory Cards, simply because they were 1/3 in price of what Sony charged and some games could fill up entire cards by itself (sports games especially), so i needed a ton of them. They surprisingly work to this day perfectly fine.
I don't see a problem with that.
doafan:
I literally only buy generic controllers ;D
turf:
Nope.
I’m all OG all the time. Not because it’s a sin or some silly purest mentality. They just are the highest quality.
sworddude:
--- Quote from: sly345 on December 30, 2025, 10:35:57 am ---Back in the day, i bought a whole stack of unbranded Playstation 1 Memory Cards, simply because they were 1/3 in price of what Sony charged and some games could fill up entire cards by itself (sports games especially), so i needed a ton of them. They surprisingly work to this day perfectly fine.
I don't see a problem with that.
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They have higher fail rates than originals, originals don't really fail while 3rd party ones have allot of reports.
That being said odds are stacked in your favor and in more cases than not they will work perfectly fine and they often have more storage than originals.
--- Quote from: diehard on December 30, 2025, 12:25:28 am ---Not for a long time, but the Hori products always catch my eye.
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I don't count hori as non original their quality is good and they actually worked with nintendo and playstation on multiple really great controllers back in the day.
sly345:
--- Quote from: sworddude on December 31, 2025, 08:54:48 pm ---They have higher fail rates than originals, originals don't really fail while 3rd party ones have allot of reports.
That being said odds are stacked in your favor and in more cases than not they will work perfectly fine and they often have more storage than originals.
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So far in 30 years i only had 2 memory cards fail on me, one was a Blaze 2x for the PS1, that had that little switch for the two memory banks, one of them died just 3 months in and the other was in fact a official Sony PS2 memory card that after some time had read and write errors.
The one that amazes me the most is the Gamester N64 Memory Pak with the 2 dip switches and 4 memory banks, altogether squeezed in the same size and nearly the same weight as a official pak. 25 years and running perfectly fine.
Now if we wanna talk about bad Third party products, i got the Mad Catz Dream Wheel... :-X
Seriously, i think steering wheels are the biggest example of "you get what you pay for", pay cheap and they suck, you have to spend hundreds of euro for a decent one. I got a Thrustmaster TMX Pro for my PC and while that is pretty low tier compared to the serious Sim Wheels from Fanatec (1000+ €) it's light years ahead of all the crappy third party wheels i got for my consoles.
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