The NES controller’s cross-shaped D-pad and minimal button layout defined how players interacted with their favorite games, ...

You'll need your own NES controller and soldering tools to use one of the kits, but you can see how it's all done in this video below. Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube 813k ...

The problem itself isn't just the JoyCon controller's D-pad, or Nintendo's weird decision to not let us customize button mapping so Super Mario Bros. 3 is actually fun and not a confusing mess.

The NES controllers, ... Octopath Traveler uses just a few different buttons, and since it can register movement from the D-Pad, it’s fairly playable with the NES Controller.

Everything from the sizing to the tactile feel to the springiness of the buttons and the d-pad is practically indistinguishable from a brand-new NES controller you might have bought three decades ago.

Once upon a time, you needed an NES controller to play the games you grew up with. But times are better now, and you don’t need to suffer with callouses on your hands and a hole in your wallet.

Often referred to as being brick-like in shape, the NES controller featured the first D-Pad on a home console, two action buttons, and start and select buttons.

Instead of “hyper tapping,” the previously most popular method of tapping an NES controller’s D-pad as fast as possible, “rolling” sees players glide their fingers along the bottom of an ...

The Dreamcast controller looks fairly standard for the time — it has an analog stick, D-pad, triggers, and four face buttons. The problem with it is everything else.

8BitDo has made the NES mechanical keyboard that ... Even the printed arrow keys’ barely visible black-on-gray have the same chunky shape as the embossed arrows on the NES controller’s D-pad.

Instead of “hyper tapping,” the previously most popular method of tapping an NES controller’s D-pad as fast as possible, “rolling” sees players glide their fingers along the bottom of an ...