Drift was easily solved back then.

@@StrangeDad i'm not sure. I don't remember suffering from drift, but it was common for the joystick to be a little loose and difficult to use. Especially after playing a lot of Mario64 with its boss battle where you had to keep rotating the analog stick 360 degrees. Current analog sticks with potentiometers, when they drift, it's just a matter of opening the control and spraying contact cleaner (isopropyl alcohol spray) on the potentiometers. Drift normally occurs due to dirt in the potentiometers.

​@@StrangeDaddrift wasn't a thing but there were other problems like the stick degrading over use

you can just press L R and Start at the same time to recalibrate the stick.

@@deadsharkisart Sssh, you're making it too easy... 🤫

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if everyone who liked this subbed, he'd be in good shape

​@@janet.snakeholeI always like subbing to low sub count channels that put in work, even if I don't see their stuff often I enjoy having the sub there in hopes it helps

​@@janet.snakeholeviews and watch time are significantly more important, "subscriptions" and "likes" are mostly pointless because they don't really mean anything.

Underrated comment. D-pad for strafing while aiming with the stick is the best way to play goldeneye. (And all the other first person shooters on the system)

Or set it to Galore and hold controller 2 in your left hand, 1 in your right

@@thecianinator I've tried this and prefer the D-pad method because holding two controllers is kind of goofy and it doesn't feel exactly like modern dual stick anyway. But to each his own.

@@shaun8062This is THE way to play FPS on N64.

@@zerobyte802 agreed!

People that consider symmetrical analogue sticks a flaw don't feel real

@@door_productions4896 People who don't want their thumb in a neutral/resting position on the analog stick when playing 3D games are weird and probably just motivated by nostalgia or corporate tribalism. Like... why would you want more thumb strain and less accurate movement?

One of the best controllers ever.

"only"?

Everyone says this, but mine never wore out. And I actually used them with an adapter to work as a mouse on my computer, so mine was in use a lot more than most. I wonder if it's because I never played any of those games like Mario Party where you needed to flick the stick. I didn't even play Mario 64 with its more precise platforming (vs the Rare platformers).

​@@ZipplyZanesame with the joycon drift for the switch, alot of people say it drifts easily, but I've had my switch for MONTHS and it never drifted so I never had to replace it

My joystick would drift. But as far as durability a lot of my old n 64 controllers are still in working condition

The entire video is about how its form forced the exclusion of a significant portion of the rest of the controller, and *that's* your takeaway?

Thanks so much!! That means a lot

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Excellent for Tony Hawk, Mortal Kombat Trilogy & Robotron 64. But yeah, usually it would be for ancillary things like going through your inventory.

Thank you!!

There are a lot of things that we praised in the past that didn't age so well as time passed.

It's because Sony did the same thing only a year later, on a more ergonomic controller, all based on Nintendo's Dog bone design that players were comfortable with but with hand grips and DUAL joysticks on the PlayStation which was already orders of magnitude more successful than the N64. The PS1 has one of the largest game libraries of all time. Nintendo got completely outplayed that generation and now that's exactly what the N64 controller is known for now: a controller for a short time when 3d standards weren't established yet.. and weren't established yet because Nintendo put out a bad controller with one analog stick so they couldn't possibly have been at that time. Before Sony, they were basically the kings of the gaming market. The N64 directly paved the path for Sony and it's controller basically became the embodiment of Nintendo's failure to compete that generation; and you can sure as hell feel that when you go back to play N64 imo.

@@uponeric36 not only Sony, Sega did the same thing just a month later on a more ergonomic and functional controller that has the exact same buttons as the n64 one.

Sonic Advance 3 ROCKS

@@ShiveringPixel Agreed. Completely underrated Sonic game. Level design was admittedly kinda trash but the character mechanics were the best sonic+friends ever had been and the music was on point. Shame it took so long to get the other characters.

Thank you!!

That was a rendering error! Unfortunately, KZfaq doesn't allow replacing videos, so what I'm probably going to do in the near future is link to a fixed, unlisted version of the vid in the description.

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You bet it is! It's from the Japan-only N64 Evangelion game

yes, this was in the video.

@@ivythay4259 I know but oddly enough I was writing this comment before I watched the video. So you ended up talking about these exact points which was funny.

Also a 3rd way, for first person shooters like goldneye, turok, perfect dark, doom, quake, duke nukem: using the D-pad to strafe while aiming with the stick. Much more modern way to play them and works flawlessly.

Please and thnx you

I mean you are 4077 years old

I goofed and forgot to replace the dialogue with "barrel roll" lol. That will be fixed in an updated version that I'll link in the description