This week I restore and review the Super Advantage - an arcade style third party controller for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System! Found this thing sitting in the basement at our new house and decided to clean it up and test it out. I had never actually seen one of these things in person before -- have you?

Best controller I ever had! Played the hell out of SF2 and SF2 turbo with it

I’m always late to the party. Still glad I found this channel bro , I can relate to it well because of the age similarity. Thanks for your work , keep on rockin

The original NES Advantage was made by Asciiware, it just wasn't advertised as such.

Great Job! It's amazing how on one hand someone can take very good care of their controller and someone else in the world might as well have dumped their Coke down the left side and into the joystick area. I've had experience with both of these scenarios. The former almost 10 years ago, the latter just a few weeks ago. The first one I bought I ended up modifying it to use (mostly) genuine arcade parts. The latter I want to keep as stock. As a bonus to anyone reading this who is interested in picking one up or already has one, the ball top is interchangeable with genuine Sanwa ball tops as well as bat tops (adapter included) without any modification. I myself have always been a bat top player so the fact that you can so easily switch is Asciiware's attention to detail and even consideration for us consumers.

I know that this video was published 3.5 years ago, but thank you for the insight regarding cleaning the Super Advantage controller. I purchased one and it is in rough shape. I hope that I can clean it up and get it to work properly. Thanks again.

Great video! Pulled mine out of the closet after seeing this. Still works great, but within 30 seconds I remembered you can barely use it if it’s sitting in your lap. Definitely has to be on a flat surface!!! Will pick up a Hyperkin adapter to use it with the NES/SNES Classic!

Amazing that someone would just leave this in their house when they move. Priceless. I always wanted one of these because I saw the ads in the magazines, but I could never get one. I got the AsciiPad controller instead.

3:44 thank you for saying “Gradius III”.

This video was exactly I was looking for. I also found a snes advantage controller that needs a lot of work. Thanks dude

Slow Motion button is very cool! I made myself one on a regular NES joystick. It's simple, you need to bind the logical part of any turbo button to the Start button.

I just saw one of these at a local game store. I may have to go back and get it now. Also gives me some ideas for cleaning a Genesis arcade controller I recently picked up. Thanks!

I remember watching Full House, specifically season 8 episode 9 Stephanie’s wild ride, they were playing a game and they had the super advantage I think.

This reaches its highest potential with Star Fox. A game I struggled with is now completely intuitive with the analog stick. Plays more like n64.

For never playing F-Zero you looked pretty good.

Nice atmosphere on this video

This was an extremely informative video. Not only did it showcase the Super Advantage and show its pros and cons with various games, but it also served as a helpful guide on good ways to clean and maintain a joystick controller. And the fact that you picked a wonderful selection of some of the best SNES music to perfectly embellish the mundane cleaning montages was a nice touch! Thanks for the great video and stay safe out there!

Can't go wrong with Ascii. They were a really good 3rd party brand back in the day.

Great video! Thanks for teaching us how to clean it as well

I like, i need this stick in my life!!! Since 90's

Could you list all of the games to play with Super Advantage on the Super Nintendo? I'm talking about arcade-styled games, beat 'em games, fighting games, platform games, shoot 'em up games, and arcade ports. please.

I remember that Ultra Duster brand of compressed air here in Wisconsin.. now you can't find it anywhere. Walmart tries to take over with their crappy Onn brand, but I stocked up on the electronic duster brand that used to be cheap (2 packs for $8.88 but after I bought it all every restock during covid they upped the price to $12.64 for 2 pack), so I have about 20 packs in my basement, half old price half new price.

I love this channel man, please keep up with this grade A content, brotha man. But, I definitely like Super Advantage over the NES Advantage.

Excellent work on this!

Love the video I will clean mine tomorrow and play

The Super Advantage for the Super Nintendo looks like its own console, and is the same size as the original NES.

I didnt like this one as much as the NES Advantage. I used the nes one for games like blaster master and metroid, but by the time this one came out, I was playing a lot of fighting games. No use for turbo in those! ASCII also made a pad version, the size of a regular controller. I remember buying it at KB toys, and me, being 10 or 11, asked for the ASSY pad. The girl was laughing her ass off, but I didnt understand why at the time. Awesome video!

The Ascii Pad was my favorite controller. I thought they did a pretty decent job for a 3rd party controller.

This is an old video, but the NES advantage was made by Asciiware as well. So the same company made both.

Damn, I forgot I used to own one of these. This would be perfect for the nes\snes classic.

Oh My god!!!! i can't believe i exchange my super nintendo with that rare arcade controller for a psp to a friend of mine!!

It’s beautiful.

Awesome vid, never knew this controller existed. What a find!

"We need to be very careful not to break the ribbon cable here..." *proceeds to clean the mainboard while the joystick board just dangles freely*

Have one of these. its a pretty hefty stick. The button placement is weird but really the only complaint i ever had was the buttons were not quite smooth after a while think dust kinda clogged them down.

My advice when using turbo on an arcade stick: only use the turbo functions for shoot'em ups and not on fighting games and beat'em ups because if you use turbo on fighting games and beat'em ups, you will get a lot of missed inputs.

😂😂😂always clean your ball!! Just hilarious

I had one of these. Loved the auto fire for shot em ups like Starfox but the buttons were horrible for fighting games.

Looks Like A Lot Of Work. Hope The Manual Of That Object Shows How To Clean It If I Buy It Online.

Ascii made some great controllers for some of the old retro consoles.

I had one of these back in the day and I thought it was pretty cool at the time, but in all honesty, my pride and joy(whick I still have even now) were my pair of asciipads which were made by the same company. I also had a one handed controller by asciiware for rpgs, so you could play one handed and have a free hand to take notes, draw maps, ect.. All asciiware controllers were actually licensed by Nintendo and held to Nintendo's higher standards that they had for their own controllers.

I wonder if there’s any way to make an adapter so they work on the SNES/Super Famicom Minis. I just took 2 Super Advantages apart and cleaned them up; it’d be great to have these work with my outdoor projector. Think of the neighborhood parties! 🤣

I would to have this snes controller for snes games for retro pie emulator including the duck hunt gun for shooting n the Sega gun as well n super scope for snes shooting games

Can the cord be manually unplugged from the board? Just like in regular snes controllers...?

Gotta upgrade your setup to HD bro. But overall great commentary great game review & excellent restoration on the stick! I enjoyed watching.

Quedo hermosa!!! , me pregunto si hay adaptador de usb para usar en rasperri pi 3

I'd crush NHL 94 with that I must have this lol

You got stuff like this in your basement along with your house purchase? Perfect for you. What do you recommend for sticky buttons on modern controllers? Also, what music did you use for the video?

yo lo tengo ese control es muy bacan!

Where is this music from?😊

Arcade sticks for Street Fighter 2 work better on emulators,though I know how to play by means of arcade stick and controller the arcade stick is better for doing semicircle inputs and charge inputs(Guile's Sonic Boom and Blanka's cannonball attack for example also M Bison's Psycho Crusher)

I found one a year ago at a flea market near me for 5$! The back has some rust spots. Not bad at all but, because of the metal back and the age I really should restore it. But as is I could sell today... Not sure the worth though....

how you glue ?

How heavy is it? Not as heavy as the NES advantage?

Congratulations, by the way, on you and your wife's twin babies. May blessings continue to manifest for you. Prov. 3:5,6

I could use these to make a mortal kombat 2 tabletop arcade machine.

I own two of these.. one is for my collection, and the other I'm going to install a raspberry pi and make it a plug and play controller.

Actually looks like an SNES. I think the PlayStation had an available controller that looked like the console. By the way, I came here through the ad.

I would use it to play emulated snk games on my desktop using snes controller to usb adapter , have you tried to plug this stick into your computer using adapters ?

Some dude on youtube said joystick controls 2d action and analog stick controls 3d action but I played with this controllers in star fox so?

Agreed, I don’t like the button layout

I hear Final Fantasy music in the background! What track is that?

Cant find the SCOREMASTER version if my life dependedon it

Nice final fantasy XIV log in music awesome

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Great video ...i have the European version ....

Friday Night...

Too long of a video. Get to the goods faster

You obviously didn't play any games at the arcade, WHY are you reviewing a arcade controller?