You made a whole video about the two controllers and failed to comment on something critical like the feel of the dpad? I was looking for that part actually, because it is something they could have gotten wrong in the new one...
I stopped watching after 1:30 ish when he mentioned that the original was slightly glossy. Must've been a slow news to day to even contemplate making this video!
Interestingly, the original SNES pads actually came in two varieties. One had silk screened shoulder button letters and the other was just like the SNES Classic controller.
L and R was also moulded in original snes controllers. Some had it printed on like yours here. There were different varieties of original snes controller
The new one's differences are almost identical to the US version of the SNES. The old school US SNES had the stamping of the L and R buttons and the lighter color of the text on the front, for example. The only differences being the US didn't have the little logo on the left of the text, and the face buttons were different.
I think one difference you didn't mention that is to me the most interesting is actually on the back. There is a round indention at the middle of the original (kinda like a shallow screw hole but without a screw). To me, that looks like the part where they had the injector pin push the controller's shell out of the plastic molding machine. That it is lacking on the nintendo mini one suggests that only it is a new mold that otherwise matches the original pretty damn close (granted, expected it to be a new mold), it is also being molded differently a bit. I wonder how they compare on the inside (been a while since I opened a SNES - the USian one, that is, as that is the one I used to have), and manufacturing differences it would reveal.
comment section in nutshell: 90% - triggered americans, that can't understand that: 1. their controllers have wrong colour 2. we pronounce "snes" as "snezz" not "es en ee es" 3. ashens isn't only european youtuber in the world 5% - people who prefer old ver. 5% - people who prefer new ver.
One thing I noticed being a Super Famicom collector was that the controller shoulder buttons changed somewhere along the life of the SNES production. The mould is slightly different and one had the letters printed on. I don't know for sure which one was earlier and which one is later though.
I still have my original SNES controllers and one has screen printed L&R and the other has it engraved. One came with the system and the engraved was purchased later on.
Now it'd be interesting to see if the new SNES Classic controllers use the same board and same connector because if so, I could imagine lots of interesting mods. Especially since it uses the Wiimote's extension plug anyway.
and he forget the most important thing: D-pad and buttons feel! The NES classic has very good repro controller but the d-pad was different and a little less perfect (it was more raised).
Saturday can't come soon enough. I'm so glad it's the same size. I hope one day they do a wireless NES, SNES, N64 controllers that connect to the Switch to use for your VC games. The same 'press a button and have it sync up within seconds' type of thing like the joycon and pro controller do now..
I watched this expecting to see a comparison of response, feel of it while gaming and the technical side of it. I watched the whole thing only to realize that it wasn't even covered. FML.
Wow, the amount of people pissed off because he said SNEZ a few times is just... incredible. It was always referred to SNEZ over here in the UK, America isn't the only place in the world you know 😂
Okay so I always noticed when Nintendo made changes to their products. Upon launching the first L and R buttons were visible, later the L and R buttons were embroidered.
This is the European edition. I got the American version back in 1992, and there were many oddities about those controllers. 1. They said Super Famicom in the back. 2. LR buttons were embossed and not printed 3. The front plate on the inside has markers for red, blue, yellow and green buttons, but also for lavender and purple (the American color scheme). Every button has two tabs on it and will only fit into the appropiate slot. I got some extra controllers (a decade later, for 4-player gaming on Zsnes) and those controllers had the printed LR buttons and said Super Nintendo on the back. Were my original ones refurbs or something?
Haven't seen this video yet but I'm aware of many changes over the original life of the SNES.The lighter screen-printing is lighter for manufacturing consistency across markets. It was never that dark in the rest of the world and they want them all to be the same lighter color as Japan and North America, though they are at least going back to having different logos for different regions. When they revised the controller for the SNS-101 they even got rid of the screen-printed logo and just stuck a molded Nintendo logo there so that they could use the same front shell piece world-wide. They put both logos molded on the back so that they could use the same back shell world-wide and, thus, the same model number too. The L & R printing disappeared on the original controllers by the end of 1993. There were earlier revisions even before that though, like added reinforcement ribs connecting the cable routing posts that were prone to breaking in the earliest SNES controllers. This change may have happened before the PAL launch but you can definitely tell which ones are the oldest in the USA and Japan when you see the individual wires pulled out of the top with printed L & R buttons. ;)
Some later versions of the original controller also had L & R not printed on the buttons anymore but the letters were printed in the buttons just like the snes mini controller
The L and R buttons on the newer original release SNES controllers also have the molded design and not the screen printed like the one you have shown. I think the screen printed version was prone to the letters wearing off over time hence the swap to the molded version.
You are wrong about the original. The original controller has the "L" and "R" injected as a different color plastic which fused with the more clear plastic, making it look like it's printed but in reality it's some kind of insert. It's an insert that is fused with the button sort of speaking, that's why you'll never see it coming off. It's simply not printed.
The original SNES controller had the same finish. The wear is 99.9% of the difference between the textures. The D-pads are both made of ABS. The entire controller is made of ABS. That absolutely has NOT changed. The D-pad being darker is just because they selected a darker color. I suspect that the U.S. And JP/PAL controllers will all use the same D-pad/Start&Select buttons colors for the classic (the original U.S. SNES d-pad/S&S are a slightly different color than the JP/PAL versions). The screen printing process isn't "different", but again, it's just a different color. The L & R buttons changed through the years during SNES production. Only the oldest controllers use an "over-mold" process (not screen printed) to create the dark L & R characters, which is expensive, and effectively makes each shoulder button a 2-part assembly. Later original SNES controllers have the same molded-in letters as the SNES classic controller as a cost-saving measure, which was also done with some other small details on both the consoles and controllers. Injection molding and screen printing processes have changed VERY little over the last 30 years.
A lot of people may not be thinking about this but changes in manufacturing and regulations can have an impact on how these products get made. The regulations that were in 1991 are not the same as they are today so they may have had to make these items using different techniques which can result in a different feel.
There are different revisions of the original controller. Everyone seems to be unaware of this. There are tiny differences on them. I got about 10 original controllers without printed L R buttons for example. There are original mate controllers too.
1. Thanks for the info! 2. Don´t wear a ring like that. 3. For sure don´t wear a ring on that finger, obviously! No explanation needed of course, the answer is obvious to anybody with eyes, obviously! :-D
Japanese super famicom controllers had a short cable. Also witnessed a tear down of the nes classic mini controller and an original nes controller and the tech inside was different. They work in a completely different way. I have no doubt it's the same deal here.
The "newer" SNES controllers, on later machines released later in the SNES's lifespan had non-printed L and R buttons. I noticed this when I got the SNES 2 and when I bought Nintendo branded controllers separately.
I have to say I like the look of the original more. I think it's the fact that there's slightly more contrast to the logo and other such things that just make it a little prettier in my eyes.
As for the printing on the L and R buttons, I'm pretty sure my original snes pad had the indented buttons like the new pad. Might have been a change though the years
Ah I have many different original Snes Pads .. the L & R thing is something they changed as some are coloured and shiny and some are transparently indented .. so its a mixed bag there even with the OG's
Thank you for this comparison, mate! Basically you have explained everything I was looking for. (As I'm just planning to buy a SNES Mini.) Just two comments if I may... 1. The huge difference is, that the original was "Made in Japan", and the new in China instead. :) Well... not surprising. But hopefully the "Mini" controllers will last until many years too. 2. It seems, the original controller's cable is not only longer, but yet more durable, more thick, than the new one. (Not surprising either, knowing nowadays mass produced items overall quality in electronics.) But all in all.. .really useful review, thank you for it! And hopefully Nintendo will produce extra controllers in the future (regardless they confirmed, they have stopped producing the NES & SNES minis); just to make sure, in case the "Mini" controllers go wrong, we'll have the opportunity to buy new ones in the future.
Well it turns out that the desktop youtube subscribe button has a slightly more matt finish than the android one. Also the average functioning time is 0.00264 seconds shorter for the desktop version. Overall this makes the desktop version, though it's showing its age a little bit, much better in my opinion. 😉
Is the glossy/matte finish a matter of age and use? One thing I loved about new controllers is the texture. The satisfying feel of a good new video game controller is like the smell of a new car that you wish would last longer than the first few weeks of ownership. After tens and hundreds of hours of use, however, controllers lose the micro-bumpy texture (as well as accumulate a lot of that nasty hand cheese), and controllers with matte finishes start to become a bit shinier.
I'm not the first one, and I can see why this video has been massively disliked. Calling them in the title with caps "NOT THE SAME", but saying later on they are nearly identical except for the L and R buttons.
Man! You haven't talked about the MOST important thing: the feel and response of the D-Pad! The original Snes cobtroller has the best D-Pad of all time! It hits the perfect balance between softness and responsiveness! The best way to test it, is to execute Street Fighter 2 special moves, like Hadoukens, Shoryukens, etc...! I'm dying to know if the new D-Pad is exactly as good as the old one, because I'm on a hunt for new Snes controllers almost a decade! Have bought all kind of alternative Snes cobtrollers, and D-pad sucks everytime! For me, it's vital information and if, the new cobtrollera will be sold separatelly, I'll probably will buy 4 to 6 units, one or two to use, and 4 to spare (6 controllers should be enough for my lifetime).
I don't get why people are so triggered about him pronouncing it "snez". That's just his personal preference. A lot of people in the UK pronounce it "snez". Us Americans pronounce it "S-N-E-S" and that's fine too. "Snez"..."S-N-E-S"...at the end of the day we're all talking about the same thing...
After seeing all the hate in the comments, I'll just leave this here: we say it like "snez" in the UK. Not S.N.E.S. Dunno why but don't hate on him, he's not mispronouncing it, he's just saying it how it is here.
Some differences are there just because of the model you had... the SNES had controllers with black L and R but also a model with only textured L and R. The finish is also because in over 25 years you hands have polished the plastic.
there are different revisions of oryginal snes controllers i had both marked and unmarked l and r buttons, also color of the print vary, older revisions had it darker, newer had it matching the button overlay and dpad color i have two revisions of pcb inside my controllers marked 1992 and 1996 . the earlier one have duble clor shoulder buttons, the newer have them single collor, there are also few minor changes inside.
"to the untrained eye this would look like the ordinary SNES controller and you'd be absolutely right" I have a trained eye, the darkened grey of the controller shows it's age which gives me a clear indication that there's no way it's a SNES classic controller, at least the outer shell gives this indication
i think this is just me (and this is coming from zero experience, i've never held or even seen a SNES controller in person in my life, despite growing up with an NES) but i think the dpad on the new one looks a little smaller than the original
Guess what. I took both of these apart. the differences are the Rubbers inside ( yet can put either in both ) and the shoulder buttons have a different fixing to them. the newer controllers also have a better way to put the tabs in...so your video is technically correct . and good on you for this video
The printing of the name on the controller is probably lighter because it was in North America and they most likely wanted to make the same controller for both EU and NA and only change the buttons.
Actually, the original "SNES Mini" (Model 2 SNES released in the 90s) had matte controllers with indented L & R button labels, much like this one. The new SNES Mini controller is more like the model 2 SNES controller than the model 1 SNES controller. Of course, the unit itself looks like the model 1 SNES.
You made a whole video about the two controllers and failed to comment on something critical like the feel of the dpad? I was looking for that part actually, because it is something they could have gotten wrong in the new one...
frombauer Well, got one yourself and make the judgement.
frombauer I don't think it's different. They are basically the same.
I'll just leave this here - its my video comparison of the controller internals: ruclips.net/video/9O2V6aX3jwE/видео.html :)
frombauer for me they feel exactly the same and ive compared them
I stopped watching after 1:30 ish when he mentioned that the original was slightly glossy. Must've been a slow news to day to even contemplate making this video!
Oh, the shoulder buttons are accurate, only the early controllers had the L and R letter printed on them, later SNES controllers were bare like that.
Larry Bundy Jr do you have a source for that? I can’t find anything on it
@@txoptimusbob I concur with Larry, and my source is my memory.
txoptimusbob I have a SNES controller that has the L/R molded in like on the Mini
Same here... I had a later generation of the usa SNES (the one that came with the original DKC) and it did not have the L&R printed.
Yeah I have both styles, the printed is older.
"Feels newer.." thanks man, we could not have figured that out
what's with all the salt in the comments.
Interestingly, the original SNES pads actually came in two varieties. One had silk screened shoulder button letters and the other was just like the SNES Classic controller.
Sad to see original controller made in Japan and the new one made in China, lot of things changed during those years
I didn't get a Snes preorder rip me.
Aiden Simpson I feel you
I guess it's time to buy third party versions of this because nintendo obviously does not want our money for this.
Me neither, but that might be because I was born in 1996, a lot of time after the SNES was released
Aiden Simpson can I do the honors
Luke Johnson Because the mini snes wont make profit if its priced quite low
Pre-order cancelled.
Nintendo is doomed.
I dont think that one preoder cancel is gonna doom Nintendo lol
Henry Jones Jr. More from us, then.
Doom is Nintendoed
My original SNES Controllers 'L' and 'R' buttons are moulded on just like the SNES Classic Controllers.
Same here!
yeah, there were a few revisions. i have one that instead of super nintendo printed has the nintendo logo etched
I actually have one that's printed and another that's moulded. Just different revisions.
ZedHqX4 that's the final revision which came packed with the SNES jr.
The cord is thicker on the original SNES controller as well by the looks
I wish I could just buy the official controllers and just use them as replacement shells and buttons for authentic SNES controllers
"It feels a bit newer" No shit. I wonder why it feels newer. Maybe because the original gamepad is 27 years old. Did you ever think of that?
Charming.
😂
OmgItsSoup Calm the fuck down
"Calm down"
What the fuck, do you think s/he is mad or so because of the use of the word "shit"? damn this ain't some christian website smh
More like 25 years or less. PAL SNES controllers weren't around until mid 1992.
Get your facts straight.
L and R was also moulded in original snes controllers. Some had it printed on like yours here. There were different varieties of original snes controller
The older models its printed, the later snes had the non printed.
The new one's differences are almost identical to the US version of the SNES. The old school US SNES had the stamping of the L and R buttons and the lighter color of the text on the front, for example. The only differences being the US didn't have the little logo on the left of the text, and the face buttons were different.
I don't know why Europe and Japan got these beautiful controllers while America got those bizzare purple buttons.
purple master race
Gotta love the concave and convex buttons
The difference between an original SNES controller and the Mini SNES controller is I'll never get to hold one... :(
I think one difference you didn't mention that is to me the most interesting is actually on the back. There is a round indention at the middle of the original (kinda like a shallow screw hole but without a screw). To me, that looks like the part where they had the injector pin push the controller's shell out of the plastic molding machine. That it is lacking on the nintendo mini one suggests that only it is a new mold that otherwise matches the original pretty damn close (granted, expected it to be a new mold), it is also being molded differently a bit. I wonder how they compare on the inside (been a while since I opened a SNES - the USian one, that is, as that is the one I used to have), and manufacturing differences it would reveal.
Your subscribe button says 170K where mine says 2K. There's your comparison haha
comment section in nutshell:
90% - triggered americans, that can't understand that:
1. their controllers have wrong colour
2. we pronounce "snes" as "snezz" not "es en ee es"
3. ashens isn't only european youtuber in the world
5% - people who prefer old ver.
5% - people who prefer new ver.
Bruh, Alex. I'm hardly into the video and the only two things you have said so far aren't even differences, just results of aging.
One thing I noticed being a Super Famicom collector was that the controller shoulder buttons changed somewhere along the life of the SNES production. The mould is slightly different and one had the letters printed on. I don't know for sure which one was earlier and which one is later though.
I still have my original SNES controllers and one has screen printed L&R and the other has it engraved. One came with the system and the engraved was purchased later on.
Now it'd be interesting to see if the new SNES Classic controllers use the same board and same connector because if so, I could imagine lots of interesting mods.
Especially since it uses the Wiimote's extension plug anyway.
and he forget the most important thing: D-pad and buttons feel!
The NES classic has very good repro controller but the d-pad was different and a little less perfect (it was more raised).
*Video starts*
"He--"
*skip forward 10 seconds*
I'd have to confirm this, but from memory the L&R buttons on my original controllers were molded in and not printed
Saturday can't come soon enough. I'm so glad it's the same size. I hope one day they do a wireless NES, SNES, N64 controllers that connect to the Switch to use for your VC games. The same 'press a button and have it sync up within seconds' type of thing like the joycon and pro controller do now..
I watched this expecting to see a comparison of response, feel of it while gaming and the technical side of it. I watched the whole thing only to realize that it wasn't even covered. FML.
Wow, the amount of people pissed off because he said SNEZ a few times is just... incredible. It was always referred to SNEZ over here in the UK, America isn't the only place in the world you know 😂
I call it a super Nintendo never called it a snez i am in uk lol
Ive always said and heard snez in america here too.
Okay so I always noticed when Nintendo made changes to their products. Upon launching the first L and R buttons were visible, later the L and R buttons were embroidered.
This is the European edition. I got the American version back in 1992, and there were many oddities about those controllers.
1. They said Super Famicom in the back.
2. LR buttons were embossed and not printed
3. The front plate on the inside has markers for red, blue, yellow and green buttons, but also for lavender and purple (the American color scheme). Every button has two tabs on it and will only fit into the appropiate slot.
I got some extra controllers (a decade later, for 4-player gaming on Zsnes) and those controllers had the printed LR buttons and said Super Nintendo on the back. Were my original ones refurbs or something?
Haven't seen this video yet but I'm aware of many changes over the original life of the SNES.The lighter screen-printing is lighter for manufacturing consistency across markets. It was never that dark in the rest of the world and they want them all to be the same lighter color as Japan and North America, though they are at least going back to having different logos for different regions. When they revised the controller for the SNS-101 they even got rid of the screen-printed logo and just stuck a molded Nintendo logo there so that they could use the same front shell piece world-wide. They put both logos molded on the back so that they could use the same back shell world-wide and, thus, the same model number too.
The L & R printing disappeared on the original controllers by the end of 1993. There were earlier revisions even before that though, like added reinforcement ribs connecting the cable routing posts that were prone to breaking in the earliest SNES controllers. This change may have happened before the PAL launch but you can definitely tell which ones are the oldest in the USA and Japan when you see the individual wires pulled out of the top with printed L & R buttons. ;)
Some later versions of the original controller also had L & R not printed on the buttons anymore but the letters were printed in the buttons just like the snes mini controller
I remember the controller haveing grey and purple button.
only in north america
Oroku Saki Europe is better :)
Thankfully i'm german
Not quite Right. South America and Central America got the grey and purple buttons, too
Only the good regions got the good colours :-P lol
actually some change like the colors ,the mat finish and the etching are from the super famicom JR revision of the controller.the more you know.
Thes arent the SNES controllers its the famicom controller from SNES
and it isint pronaunced SNES its
"S...N.E.S"
Behold....the inspiration for the playstation & Xbox controllers...showing just how little *SOny* tries to do new things.
Later versions of the SNES controller around the time the SNES Jr came out had L and R ingranned into the buttons like the SNES Minis controllers do.
The L and R buttons on the newer original release SNES controllers also have the molded design and not the screen printed like the one you have shown. I think the screen printed version was prone to the letters wearing off over time hence the swap to the molded version.
You are wrong about the original. The original controller has the "L" and "R" injected as a different color plastic which fused with the more clear plastic, making it look like it's printed but in reality it's some kind of insert. It's an insert that is fused with the button sort of speaking, that's why you'll never see it coming off. It's simply not printed.
"1% NOT THE SAME"
There, I fixed the title.
But... does it have the same smell? :)
The original SNES controller had the same finish. The wear is 99.9% of the difference between the textures. The D-pads are both made of ABS. The entire controller is made of ABS. That absolutely has NOT changed. The D-pad being darker is just because they selected a darker color. I suspect that the U.S. And JP/PAL controllers will all use the same D-pad/Start&Select buttons colors for the classic (the original U.S. SNES d-pad/S&S are a slightly different color than the JP/PAL versions). The screen printing process isn't "different", but again, it's just a different color. The L & R buttons changed through the years during SNES production. Only the oldest controllers use an "over-mold" process (not screen printed) to create the dark L & R characters, which is expensive, and effectively makes each shoulder button a 2-part assembly. Later original SNES controllers have the same molded-in letters as the SNES classic controller as a cost-saving measure, which was also done with some other small details on both the consoles and controllers. Injection molding and screen printing processes have changed VERY little over the last 30 years.
A lot of people may not be thinking about this but changes in manufacturing and regulations can have an impact on how these products get made. The regulations that were in 1991 are not the same as they are today so they may have had to make these items using different techniques which can result in a different feel.
There are different revisions of the original controller. Everyone seems to be unaware of this. There are tiny differences on them. I got about 10 original controllers without printed L R buttons for example. There are original mate controllers too.
I thought the new controllers were more white, I then realised I've never seen a clean snes controller before
These controllers are awesome for Super Mario Maker. Worth the price of the console by themselves.
SNES buttons always felt very satisfying to me, not sure if the D-Pad aged well though.
140cm ... I bet it's the height of the japanese engineer that had that stupid idea.
There are also Original SNES Controller with molded L and R Button Icons.
1. Thanks for the info! 2. Don´t wear a ring like that. 3. For sure don´t wear a ring on that finger, obviously! No explanation needed of course, the answer is obvious to anybody with eyes, obviously! :-D
that ring is literally strangling his finger
I'm called Matt. Thanks Alex.
The real difference is that nobody will ever see the new one in real life.
Japanese super famicom controllers had a short cable.
Also witnessed a tear down of the nes classic mini controller and an original nes controller and the tech inside was different. They work in a completely different way. I have no doubt it's the same deal here.
Those where some girly hands.
I gues you never have done manual labour?
Just look at the back of the controller. The original is made in Japan, the new one is made in China. This is why the original is still the best.
The "newer" SNES controllers, on later machines released later in the SNES's lifespan had non-printed L and R buttons. I noticed this when I got the SNES 2 and when I bought Nintendo branded controllers separately.
I found it interesting... but I'm easy pleased and distracted by shiny things
I have to say I like the look of the original more. I think it's the fact that there's slightly more contrast to the logo and other such things that just make it a little prettier in my eyes.
actually some change like the colors ,the mat finish and the etching are from the super famicom JR revision of the controller.the more you know.
That black corner though
You forgot about the biggest change of then all, the cable is slightly smaller in diameter on the new controller..... Shocking, I know.
So if there are minor differences why did u make the video🤔
SpawnWave's a great channel. Are you high or stupid?
actually some change like the colors ,the mat finish and the etching are from the super famicom JR revision of the controller.the more you know.
+Tom Bosplays
Because ad revenue.
Michael Dust Hm, yes and his video consisting of opening up consoles is rehashing and old.
5:34
The L and R letters are ingrained on the 8Bitdo controller as well.
That looks great !! Do these work on the Nes mini as well ?
One is the original, the other looks like a counterfeit with faded printing.
its made by Nintendo, I have an Snes mini, the controller feels EXACTLY the same as the original
Spoiler: Old a bit more glossy with longer cable, new a bit more matte with shorter cable.
As for the printing on the L and R buttons, I'm pretty sure my original snes pad had the indented buttons like the new pad. Might have been a change though the years
Aside from the cable length, this all is just nitpicking.
How does the snes classic controller compare to the club nintendo snes controller?
What about the Club Nintendo Edition? Would that work with the SNES Mini too?
And it's nowadays a collector's item worth hundreds of bucks.
My original SNES-Controller's L and R buttons are also not printed but molded in.
Ah I have many different original Snes Pads .. the L & R thing is something they changed as some are coloured and shiny and some are transparently indented .. so its a mixed bag there even with the OG's
Thank you for this comparison, mate! Basically you have explained everything I was looking for. (As I'm just planning to buy a SNES Mini.)
Just two comments if I may...
1. The huge difference is, that the original was "Made in Japan", and the new in China instead. :) Well... not surprising. But hopefully the "Mini" controllers will last until many years too.
2. It seems, the original controller's cable is not only longer, but yet more durable, more thick, than the new one. (Not surprising either, knowing nowadays mass produced items overall quality in electronics.)
But all in all.. .really useful review, thank you for it! And hopefully Nintendo will produce extra controllers in the future (regardless they confirmed, they have stopped producing the NES & SNES minis); just to make sure, in case the "Mini" controllers go wrong, we'll have the opportunity to buy new ones in the future.
Well it turns out that the desktop youtube subscribe button has a slightly more matt finish than the android one. Also the average functioning time is 0.00264 seconds shorter for the desktop version. Overall this makes the desktop version, though it's showing its age a little bit, much better in my opinion. 😉
I can save WHOLE 0.00246 SECONDS?
*MIND BLOWN*
:-D
Is the glossy/matte finish a matter of age and use?
One thing I loved about new controllers is the texture. The satisfying feel of a good new video game controller is like the smell of a new car that you wish would last longer than the first few weeks of ownership. After tens and hundreds of hours of use, however, controllers lose the micro-bumpy texture (as well as accumulate a lot of that nasty hand cheese), and controllers with matte finishes start to become a bit shinier.
I'm not the first one, and I can see why this video has been massively disliked.
Calling them in the title with caps "NOT THE SAME", but saying later on they are nearly identical except for the L and R buttons.
I was actually wondering about this. Thanks!
Unfortunately, the wire controller is too short. Do you think it may be compatible with a wireless one?
Man! You haven't talked about the MOST important thing: the feel and response of the D-Pad! The original Snes cobtroller has the best D-Pad of all time! It hits the perfect balance between softness and responsiveness! The best way to test it, is to execute Street Fighter 2 special moves, like Hadoukens, Shoryukens, etc...! I'm dying to know if the new D-Pad is exactly as good as the old one, because I'm on a hunt for new Snes controllers almost a decade! Have bought all kind of alternative Snes cobtrollers, and D-pad sucks everytime! For me, it's vital information and if, the new cobtrollera will be sold separatelly, I'll probably will buy 4 to 6 units, one or two to use, and 4 to spare (6 controllers should be enough for my lifetime).
I don't get why people are so triggered about him pronouncing it "snez". That's just his personal preference. A lot of people in the UK pronounce it "snez". Us Americans pronounce it "S-N-E-S" and that's fine too. "Snez"..."S-N-E-S"...at the end of the day we're all talking about the same thing...
You Britts got the cool colors, we got concave and convex buttons instead...
I think there are some revisions / versions of the original pad with the same L and R buttons where's it not a printed letter :)
What about comparing this to the Super Nintendo controller that was released through Club Nintendo
After seeing all the hate in the comments, I'll just leave this here: we say it like "snez" in the UK. Not S.N.E.S. Dunno why but don't hate on him, he's not mispronouncing it, he's just saying it how it is here.
Some differences are there just because of the model you had... the SNES had controllers with black L and R but also a model with only textured L and R. The finish is also because in over 25 years you hands have polished the plastic.
That's really strange, my original PAL SNES controller has recessed shoulder buttons. However my NTSC one has printed buttons.
I like the european design. Oh my god, I will have it soon at house :-)
European SNES Controller.
Your hands are disturbing
there are different revisions of oryginal snes controllers
i had both marked and unmarked l and r buttons, also color of the print vary, older revisions had it darker, newer had it matching the button overlay and dpad color
i have two revisions of pcb inside my controllers marked 1992 and 1996 . the earlier one have duble clor shoulder buttons, the newer have them single collor, there are also few minor changes inside.
"to the untrained eye this would look like the ordinary SNES controller and you'd be absolutely right"
I have a trained eye, the darkened grey of the controller shows it's age which gives me a clear indication that there's no way it's a SNES classic controller, at least the outer shell gives this indication
love the video...but I can't get past the non gamer-ish calling of the S-N-E-S, the Snez. Nobody calls it that outside of england.
i think this is just me (and this is coming from zero experience, i've never held or even seen a SNES controller in person in my life, despite growing up with an NES) but i think the dpad on the new one looks a little smaller than the original
I'll always be impressed with how Nintendo nailed the matte controller plastics so well. Seriously, no one else has done that!
Guess what. I took both of these apart. the differences are the Rubbers inside ( yet can put either in both ) and the shoulder buttons have a different fixing to them. the newer controllers also have a better way to put the tabs in...so your video is technically correct . and good on you for this video
SNU?!?
Interestingly I recall my SNES with the L and R of the new controller and the lighter text too. Australian SNES so maybe that's a thing?
Alex became ashens
The printing of the name on the controller is probably lighter because it was in North America and they most likely wanted to make the same controller for both EU and NA and only change the buttons.
The PS1 classic mini controller feels light and cheap, so this doesn't surprise me. China vs Japan manufacturing.
Actually, the original "SNES Mini" (Model 2 SNES released in the 90s) had matte controllers with indented L & R button labels, much like this one.
The new SNES Mini controller is more like the model 2 SNES controller than the model 1 SNES controller.
Of course, the unit itself looks like the model 1 SNES.