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NYKO TECHNOLOGIES 80650 Airflow Ex Pc Game Controller |  | Brand: Nyko
Category: CE
List Price: $14.99
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Rating:  35 reviews
Platform: Windows XP
Color: Silver/black
Media: Electronics
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 3.2 x 8.7
Warranty: 90 days warranty
MPN: 80650
Model: 80650-H08
UPC: 743840806509
EAN: 0743840806509
ASIN: B0006NGY9C
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Product Description
Airflow EX PC Game Controller Patented airflow design with selectable fan speed
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 35
Overall good PC controller, but leaves some things to be desired... July 25, 2010
Mike B. (CA USA)
For the price, this really isn't a bad controller. The analog sticks and buttons all work well, and the fan is a nifty feature to have sometimes. I really only have 2 problems with this controller:
1) Compatibility. I can't seem to get this to work with a lot of modern games
2) The D-pad. I configured the movement in Snes9x (a super nintendo emulator) to the D-pad and tried to play super metroid, and it was completely unplayable. It has a ridiculously difficult time correctly reading diagonal D-pad presses. Then I tried to go for something simpler that only used 4-directional D-pad functionality, Megaman X, and it was still unmanageable - even only working with the simple 4 directional commands the D-pad was far too unresponsible to be adequate for gameplay.
3) This could be a problem with the emulator, but in Project64 I'm having an impossible time getting the analog stick's full range to be utilized. There'll be a huge dead zone along the outer edges of the stick's range, meaning that full presses are very easy to do, but gameplay that requires sensitive analog movement (zelda shooting gallery, super mario 64 platforming etc.) becomes ridiculously difficult. I've ordered an xbox 360 controller for windows, so I'll use that and see if the problem persists and update this review with the results.
But, for the most part it's a good controller for the price. If amazon allowed more detailed reviews, I would have given this 3.5 / 5 stars.
 Great, but cord broke. July 13, 2010
pzkfw
Great controller. PS2 layout, the airflow gimmick works and is nice.
Problem is the cord got frayed. Electricity melted the part where the cord starts out of the controller.
Windows no longer recognizes controller.
 Best cheapo USB PC controller for basic gaming you will ever find. Period. July 7, 2010
Ice Weasel 1
OK. So if you have read many other critical reviews of this gamepad you know some of the shortcommings. Such as the d-pad not being the best to the number buttons being different than "normal". I'll tell you this, if you don't care about having a rumble feature and don't mind programming the buttons to meet specific game requirements this is absolutely the best controller you will find for the price (I paid $11.99 each and bought 3 to qualify for free shipping). I play mostly Nintendo emulators on our PC, mostly Project 64 for N64, with my children and these controllers are a couple orders of magnitude better than the el cheapo USB controllers I originally bought for the PC cause I'm, well, frugal. And I wasn't about to spend a lot of dough on controllers for sticky little kid hands to destroy. Responsive, good feel even in tiny 7 year old hands (my daughter, not me), and you can turn the fan off which is good because I find the noise quite annoying. The kids think it's cool though. I'll have to wait and see about long-term durability. But for 12 bones what do you expect? They seem solid and there is no creaking when you torque them while getting crazy during a game. They are a little light for me since I'm used to heavier gamepads with rumble feature but that's not enough for me to rescind my best cheapo USB PC contoller ranking for this great controller. Now if I could just get my Nyko Wii contollers to work correctly all the time.....
Cool Game Controller ! July 1, 2010
F. Zonni
I purchased this game controller a few weeks ago and I Love It !!! It works great and it's easily programable. The airflow system keeps your hands from getting clammy. It's a fave!!
 Decent idea, but hard to handle June 24, 2010
ZeroDaHero
I bought this controller for use with linux (Slackware 13.0), and I was fairly impressed at how easily it worked and calibrated. There seems to be a rather interesting distribution of signal detection with the joysticks, however. Both are quite nice, but there seems to be a ring of very high sensitivity for appx 5 degrees outside the dead zone, followed by almost nothing until the extreme threshold. This supposedly would create better precision, but it ends up just being hard to control. The sticks are both very strongly centered (which is nice since they probably won't start wobbling anytime soon), but the effort it takes to break the dead zone is usually just a bit too great to actually have any precision in the high sensitivity area. If you're just using these for hard-left, hard-right, now-turn-around type games, it'll be great. If you need some gentler control for smelling the flowers in your favorite Tux game, you might want to look into Nintendo controllers with adapters(/splicing). There's appx 36K "steps" of sensitivity in this gamepad, and only about 80 in a N64 controller. This would be a plus for this gamepad, however, it's poorly distributed.
The idea of the fan is ridiculous, but it actually works...and is kinda nice...
Bottom line: I wouldn't go for it, but now that I have one, it's not too bad.
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