Messiah Wireless 2.4GHz Limited Edition controllers for the Nintendo NES

[adamchevy]

Anyone ever use these? And are they worth it? I'm looking at buying a set on eBay.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/251491517387?nav=SEARCH

[adamchevy]

Either know one has ever tried these, or your looking to snipe the eBay auction I'm interested in.

[Reaperman]

Just saw this. I've never used the messiah nes units, but I own their snes units and they're pretty crap (especially compared to the retrobit units for that system). The messiah d-pad disc thing is annoying, and the buttons have these really mushy switches beneath them--that's still way better than the start/select sensor things.

 

Outside of *every single control surface* they're actually quite good. Good shape, good wireless performance, but it's all pretty meaningless with those controls.

Would not recommend them.

Edited April 10, 2014 by Reaperman

[adamchevy]

Just saw this. I've never used the messiah nes units, but I own their snes units and they're pretty crap (especially compared to the retrobit units for that system). The messiah d-pad disc thing is annoying, and the buttons have these really mushy switches beneath them--that's still way better than the start/select sensor things.

 

Outside of *every single control surface* they're actually quite good. Good shape, good wireless performance, but it's all pretty meaningless with those controls.

Would not recommend them.

Thanks for your help! I ended up buying a wired one for the NES. Its a great controller!

[+wood_jl]

The NES "plus-shaped" control pad was excellent. When I first heard (several years ago) that someone was creating brand new wireless controllers, I was quite interested. Then I, too, saw that ridiculous disc-looking thing for a control pad, PASS. One has to wonder what they were thinking.

 

I can't believe somebody paid 106 bucks for that!

[bomberpunk]

i bought the NES Messiah console when it was a preorder. the console itself looks nice as do the controllers. but both are light-weight and cheap. plus it's a struggle to remove a cartridge from the machine, and IIRC the game genie doesn't fit. or barely.