Dissapointed with the "NES Satellite"......

[rhindlethereddragon]

I found an "NES Satellite" today, boxed, for $5 at the thrift store. Wireless is no big deal, but I noticed that it had "TURBO" buttons. Wow, to have "turbo" on a regular NES controller? "I'm in", I thought.

 

The "turbo" is hardly "turbo" at all. It's just a repeater, so for example, on shooting games if you hold down the button it will fire slowly, not rapidly. In fighting games, you will throw your punches slowly if held down, not rapidly. And I bought 6 "C" batteries for this thing.. pretty useless.

[PsychoKittyNet]

Seems cool to have, but I was never a fan of IR wireless. Still I think the point was so that people could play farther from their tv sets, the turbo function was probably an afterthought.

[BDW]

You're complaining that the Satellite is bad because the turbo is slow? Remember, the main focus of this is to make your controllers WIRELESS, not to make your controllers go turbo. If you are so vexed about it, buy a NES MAX controller or the NES Advantage.

[rhindlethereddragon]

You're complaining that the Satellite is bad because the turbo is slow? Remember, the main focus of this is to make your controllers WIRELESS, not to make your controllers go turbo. If you are so vexed about it, buy a NES MAX controller or the NES Advantage.

 

Well, everyone has their own personal selling points, and mine was to use a regular old nintendo controller and have turbo added to it, and this thing gets a big "FAIL" for that.

 

Yes.... I have the MAX controllers, as well as the great NES Advantage. The Max is ok, but it's not the same as the regular controller. The NES advantage is an arcade quality controller (unlike it's cheap successor, the "Super Advantage") but needs to be set on something.

[+wood_jl]

Well, as an aside, how does the wireless part work? (assuming line-of-sight, of course!)

[Drixxel]

Well, as an aside, how does the wireless part work? (assuming line-of-sight, of course!)

 

The wireless is good, I've never noticed any lag through the NES Satellite. Then again, I've mainly used the thing for 4-player M.U.L.E., not exactly the twitchiest of games to test with.

[godslabrat]

I was always a much bigger fan of the Four Score. No IR issues, no batteries, and you can use it as a controller extender if you only have 1 or 2 players.

[tz101]

You could send it to me and I would properly appreciate it...

[MN12BIRD]

Yeah I'm not a fan of the Satellite. You still have wires coming from your controllers so it's not really that useful being wireless and really you're just wasting batteries! The main point of it is to give you 4 players. It was the first 4 player adapter for the NES then a plain wired version came out later. Sometimes with "turbo" the problem is it's actually too fast. If you're hitting the button too fast for the game to keep up it actually ends up being slower. Plus remember in some games like Mega Man you can only fire 3 times on screen anyway. So you get 3 quick bursts then a delay before you can fire more. I also have the max controllers and the turbo mode on those are amazing. Really fast.

Edited November 25, 2010 by MN12BIRD

[PsychoKittyNet]

I might also suggest the Yobo turbo controller is pretty awesome, but a pain to plug into a regular nes.

[jferio]

I'd own one, just for those times I need to put the NES on the far side of the living room, far further than the controller cables would ever let me.

 

If I need a good tunable turbo, I have two Advantage sticks anyway.