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Croccers posted:RIP Rock Band 4 and that other one I see an instrument set for but never the game. So Harmonix and MadCatz had originally co-published RB4, but the next year, MadCatz dropped out because of their financial problems and PDP took over with the new RB4 expansion stuff.
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That's a gate for an arcade stick, I don't know if this is one of those that's the joke things but whatever. Also the TE I got way back from them and the 360 fightpad were both amazing, I just use the latter for any game I emulate pretty much.
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huh, i always thought Razer would go first
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seiferguy posted:I only owned 1 MadCatz product, and it was their 3rd party GCN controller. Thing was hefty, uncomfortable, and the buttons were spread just a few mm more away from each other than the regular Nintendo one - invisible to the eye, but noticeable enough when playing that it was annoying. But it had a macro button, so that was cool, even if I never figured out how to use the dang thing. Still, $10 cheaper than a 1st party controller! Their best controllers were the PS2 ones where the buttons would shift and get stuck under the faceplate, so you'd hold down the X button for eternity
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Apr 6, 2017 18:35
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If nothing else, MadCatz taught me to always pay a little bit more for the 1st party products and never try to cheap out since it'll end up getting more expensive in the long run.
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Apr 7, 2017 06:25
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 I get what they were trying to do here, but jesus https://www.amazon.com/Controller-Technology-Smartphones-Not-Machine-Specific/dp/B00S7NFD8Q
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Saucer Crab posted:The Mad Catz Xbox controller at release date was a lot better than the Duke. OK I had this controller and it sucks balls and rear end.
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Apr 7, 2017 06:56
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Scalding Coffee posted:That looks like an angry crab. Holy gently caress I can't unsee it. His piercing blue eyes are filled with hate.
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Their name sucked, their logo sucked, their products mostly sucked and their reputation was for mass mediocrity. (The polar opposite of Logitech.) You could get away with that up until the end of the PS2/GC/XB era, but not so much afterwards. The internet going mobile on smartphones didn't just make reviews more plentiful and easier to find while one was at the store, but the middle of that console era was also the rise of YouTube - and at the end of it, the trend of unboxing/review videos. (I'd bet most of their revenue came from the discerning consumer who didn't bother to read a magazine review first.) And no reputable retailer would ever deny a customer the chance to return a lovely peripheral anyways.spit on my clit posted:huh, i always thought Razer would go first But doesn't Razer make decent quality stuff? I've never owned their products but its not like they have a reputation for cheap poo poo.
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Apr 7, 2017 08:39
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Endorph posted:if id known that i would have scored some free swag He said cute girls.
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CharlestonJew posted:Yes, after the music game trend was long dead and buried harmonix exhumed it's corpse to put on display one last time. Apparently the game sold decently but madcatz put pretty much everything they had into it so yeah, rip. spit on my clit posted:huh, i always thought Razer would go first
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Apr 7, 2017 09:22
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Thank gently caress, no more of their garbage to come in and gather dust on the shelves where I work. 
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Apr 7, 2017 09:22
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Mad Catz sold off Saitek last year so its not like the writing hasn't been on the wall.
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The Kins posted:Razer was valued at US$1.5 billion last year. As goofy and overpriced as some of their products are, they seem to be doing pretty well for themselves. Razer stuff is good quality stuff. If I buy something that feels flimsy and it breaks, I don't go back to that brand. MadCatz never had that opportunity with me because I was already storied up by a number of friends furious with the brand over PS1 / PS2 memory cards pretty much losing everything on them.
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Apr 7, 2017 13:26
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You can get the angry crab in Red aswell: I never thought I would be saying this, but in some ways Madcatz started getting their poo poo back together near the end. Believe it or not the Wiiu Tekken Tag 2 stick is phenomenal: All Sanwa parts, hefty, and styled after a Noir cab. But I guess a few good products cant save a thirty years of bad ones...
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Apr 7, 2017 14:41
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I don't get the crabtroller, what's with the hinge on the handles? Do you squeeze the arms together to fold them in or swing out the thumbsticks or something?
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Apr 7, 2017 14:52
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McSpanky posted:I don't get the crabtroller, what's with the hinge on the handles? Do you squeeze the arms together to fold them in or swing out the thumbsticks or something? I think so, yeah. apparently if you buy all 5 crab controller colors you can form the madcatz megazord which will delete all your save data and creep on your female acquaintances.
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Apr 7, 2017 15:06
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spit on my clit posted:huh, i always thought Razer would go first As long as they make the Deathadder, they'll survive. KakerMix posted:The best part about this is MadCatz bought Saitek and ran their poo poo into the ground but now Logitech owns Saitek so perhaps they can return to the glory that is not making loving garbage. Hopefully. I really should get back into E:D one of these days.
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Apr 7, 2017 15:07
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McSpanky posted:I don't get the crabtroller, what's with the hinge on the handles? Do you squeeze the arms together to fold them in or swing out the thumbsticks or something? The arms fold because its a bad cell phone game controller.
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Apr 7, 2017 15:27
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 I had this thing. Got it new in 2003. It finally died a little less than a year ago. This thing saw play through one or more runs of, among other things, seven different Final Fantasy games, Dragon Quest 8, two Ratchet and Clank games, Tales of Phantasia, Destiny, Eternia, and Abyss, and a whole bunch of smaller titles whose only sin was to not have sixty hour game times. My wife got me a replacement for this one, since I used it so much. The macro function was easy and intuitive, and when you used the controller for PS1 games that didn't support analog the sticks would map to the dpad/face buttons so stuff like FF7 didn't injure your thumb. So, yeah, I was a bit surprised to see that apparently the company sucked enough to go under because the one thing of theirs I used outlasted multiple official controllers under less use.
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Apr 7, 2017 20:09
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Madkatz fight sticks weigh alot (which you want) and use great japanese parts and are built to be fully customizable by the end user. I hope someone buys their fight stick business basically. The guy that ran it for madkatz was a fighting game community guy called markman and he proved how one person who knows what players want can make a big difference in quality even in a mega poo poo tier company
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Apr 7, 2017 20:26
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I had an N64 Mad Catz controller. Not only was it an uncomfortable piece of poo poo with spongy buttons, the handles inexplicably swiveled outwards so you could never get a proper grip on the controller. What kind of mutant wants the handles to be at a 45 degree angle to the buttons?
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The fact that MadCatz arcade sticks and fightpads are legit the FGC standard, and Hori is the sub-optimal choice favored by a few holdouts, is loving surreal to me. Like something from Bizarro World or a Sliders episode. e: like, the RAP4 is a good stick, but it is not anywhere near as easy to repair or mod as the TE2+ and those things are relatively important.
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fastbilly1 posted:You can get the angry crab in Red aswell: Wait, I thought the point of this thread was that you can't get the angry crab anymore. 
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you can get the angry crab, but only on clearance or on ebay. the amount of angry crabs that currently exist in the world will never increase.
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I have a MadCatz PS1 memory card that I still use. It's one of those ones that has multiple "pages" worth of storage space you can flip through with a button. I don't know anything about MadCatz' reputation but that card is the only high-capacity PS1 card I've seen that actually works as advertised, doesn't corrupt your data, and doesn't take a minute and a half to switch between pages.
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I have one of their GameCube memory cards in my wii at this very moment. I haven't actually used the card in years though so I don't know if my save data is intact. I only use it because I lost my original memory card a long time ago.
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I liked the original Xbox controller.
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Cnidaria posted:I have one of their GameCube memory cards in my wii at this very moment. I haven't actually used the card in years though so I don't know if my save data is intact. I only use it because I lost my original memory card a long time ago. Yeah, the only madcatz thing I owned was a GC memory card. I was always worried it was gonna wipe someday cause of how bad I heard their stuff was.
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Jabarto posted:I have a MadCatz PS1 memory card that I still use. It's one of those ones that has multiple "pages" worth of storage space you can flip through with a button. I still have that very same card in one of my drawers. It served me perfectly fine. Man, for no rational reason I always figured MadCatz would just doggedly endure. End of a loving era.
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Apr 12, 2017 14:49
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Madcatz made some badass memory cards
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Goodbye, MadCatz. I'll never forget your N64 controller that was somehow more uncomfortable than the actual N64 controller. Or the PS2 memory card that failed after two months of use.
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Sea Sponge Run posted:Madcatz made some bad memory cards
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:The fact that MadCatz arcade sticks and fightpads are legit the FGC standard, and Hori is the sub-optimal choice favored by a few holdouts, is loving surreal to me. Like something from Bizarro World or a Sliders episode. MadCatz SF4 and SFxT fightpads were alright, but the PS4 one is bad while Hori's Fighting Commander line is really good.
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