For a while now, I've started a few review series on my youtube channel. Among them is a series I call the Controller Chronicles, named of course after the long running public broadcast of yesteryear, The Computer Chronicles.
This series aims to showcase the best gaming controllers on the market with some thoughts on their design and performance. Of course, I can only review controllers I own.
As this is the Sega board, I'll only cover Sega related controllers here.
The switches are turbo fire and auto fire. They are primarily useful for the many, many shoot 'em ups on the Genesis/MegaDrive.
Since they are individual turbo fire and (unlike the model 3 controller's turbo which puts ALL buttons on turbo) you can have rapid fire on one button but then have normal jumps or bombs or weapon switching on other buttons.
It also helps a lot with RPG grinding. In Phantasy Star for example if you're going through an area where all your characters attack enemies, set it to auto fire the C button and watch battles fly by much more easily.
All of this also applies to the Sega Master System or Atari 7800 as well.
The placement of that start button in the mega drive controller makes it look horribly ugly, but I'm guessing the engineers couldn't find any other place to put it after adding the auto fire switches.
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