Just bought a really rare PS1 style Dreamcast controller!

[Anthony817]

Perfect for playing all those Bleem games, Fighters, Shmups and of course all the emulators out there as well. They have a really great review from over at Dreamcast Junkyard.

http://www.thedreamcastjunkyard.co.uk/2 ... oller.html

If anybody wants one act fast he has 2 left so once these are gone you probably won't see them again! These are not a new product these were produced way back in the day.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dreamcast-contr ... 1895139666?

[CRTGAMER]

Perfect for playing all those Bleem games, Fighters, Shmups and of course all the emulators out there as well. They have a really great review from over at Dreamcast Junkyard.

If anybody wants one act fast he has 3 left so once these are gone you probably won't see them again! These are not a new product these were produced way back in the day.

Thank you Anthony for the alert post!! Four digital triggers with two mapped to face buttons and optional turbo on all four six, ooh yeah I'm in!

Though I already have multiple PSX Total Control converters, this looks too cool to try out! Snagged the last one available, shame there is no Analog stick though. Looks like not 100% Bleemcast compatible, we'll see what it does.

SNES Emulator on the Dreamcast with this controller looks like a good match!

I know of a couple stores by the Mexico border that just might have this unit. Never looked at them close assuming they were older 3rd party controllers of the non duel shock PS1 controller! Might have to take another drive down there.

[Ghudda]

yeah I'll admit that I grabbed one of these last night as well. Interested to see what the innards are like and it's potential for modification and the price was on point. I don't have a total control for my DC, so it looks like a great controller option regardless. Shame that the guy only ships once a week, but we shall see when it get's here. Have you received yours yet, Anthony?

[Anthony817]

No I only just bought it last night. But yeah this is a great alternative for the ASCII Fight pad since they are pretty pricey.

Glad to see my post could get them into others hands. Gonna be a long week or 2. Said it would arrive by the 13th so gonna have to wait and see.

Edit: I also must add I wasn't thinking about Gran Turismo 2 and MGS when I meant Bleem games. I was mostly talking about Tekken 3 and all the Bleem beta self booting games that never used analogue in the first place. I highly doubt that the shoulder buttons will work for those games since it is mapped similar to what C and Z would be on the Ascii fighter pad, but from my understanding it is B and X buttons mapped to them. So if we tried it in the Bleem Beta games my instinct tells me it wouldn't work as a true L1 and R1 but I have been known to be wrong in the past so we shall wait and see!

Double Edit: You know, last night I was looking at the picture of this controller sitting side by side with the official PS1 controller and I got to thinking how easy would it be to modify it to fit inside of an official PS1 controller case with some slight modification? I would like to see this done if you can locate some more of these by the border CRTGAMER. Anyways as you can see here they are pretty similar but not sure how the d-pad contacts would line up and then there is the case of the other buttons. Obviously you could just not use the turbo keys.

[Anthony817]

Sorry for double posting but I wanted to bump this to let everybody know he seems to have more in if anybody wanted to buy one for themselves?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dreamcast-contr ... 25af16d61c

[CRTGAMER]

Sorry for double posting but I wanted to bump this to let everybody know he seems to have more in if anybody wanted to buy one for themselves?

The quantity went back to the original count of four!

I have not received mine yet, did yours arrive?

Oh and no luck at the border stores. Saw plenty of 3rd part NES, N64, PS1, Saturn, Gamecube and Xbox controllers though.

[Anthony817]

I spoke to him on eBay. He said it is sitting at the post office and they were kind of behind at his local office, but it was shipped out by him. He also said he bought a bulk of them from some guy who's store closed so he has way more than the ones we bought. I will let you guys know when I get mine in. Also check your messages on eBay he might has pm'd you about the delay.

[Fragems]

Has it been scanned as "arrived at carrier"? I find it very odd that it would just be sitting at the post office seeing as how they are very strict about getting stuff out at the office I work at. It's not even Christmas yet so things really shouldn't be backing up.

[Anthony817]

Well it showed that the label was created for it. Acceptance to the office hasn;t showed up via tracking yet, and I go straight on USPS site to track my items since tracking from clicking the numbers on eBay are notoriously slow to update...

October 6, 2015
Pre-Shipment Info Sent to USPS

The U.S. Postal Service was electronically notified by the shipper on October 6, 2015 to expect your package for mailing. This does not indicate receipt by the USPS or the actual mailing date. Delivery status information will be provided if/when available.

Plus it is Native American genocide day so it is a national holiday celebrating Columbus discovery of America so they closed up all post offices for the day...

[CRTGAMER]

It is odd that an exact same quantity appeared again for sale and all now all four are sold again.

The good news is the seller only has one negative and 52 positive reviews. A concerned optimism that I'll get mine in the mail in a couple of weeks?