Here's an odd reason I need a new PS1 controller

[edmonddantes]

So I'm burned out on King's Field, but there's another issue.

Believe it or not, pressing up to move foreward so often... actually started to hurt my thumb.

Like, what the hell.  Other D-pad games didn't bother me (I played Tetris on NES to test a console I was fixing) but this, even if I give myself a day's rest, the hurt comes back when I start.

Now here's something funny... the case for King's Field II (US) has advertisements for controllers where one of the bullet points for ones with a more traditional D-pad is "eliminates thumb fatique."  So they KNEW this could happen.

But I've also had bad experiences with third-party PS1 controllers (to wit, I had one that somehow rendered every PS1 it was plugged into unable to read memory cards) but...

Okay, here's the important bit:  Has anyone ever used Ascii's PS1 controllerS?  Or any other 3rd-party controllers for the PS1?  Did you like any of them?

Thanks in advance.

[mainpatr]

All of the Playstation D-pads suck like that. The only PS D-pad that is actually any good is the Vita's. I used a third party PS2 wireless pad and hated it. The battery kept weighing down the analog and screwing up my movements. Never use Pelican branded controllers.

[kingmike]

The best (worst) gimmick controller is one I think was called Air-Flo. I had a PC controller for PS2 as well, had a fan built into the controller "to fight sweaty hands" or something like that.
The solution to a problem nobody has said they had. I suppose maybe on hot days it was a little more convenient than turning on a normal room fan.

Though there was an unlicensed controller that claimed to stop sore thumbs. It was called Turbo Touch 360 for NES, SNES and Genesis (an original era controller).
It replaced the D-pad with a touch sensitive pad but I couldn't get it to work well and it doesn't sound like anyone else did.

I thought the asciiPad for SNES was considered one of the better third-party controllers. I have one and mine still works pretty well, other than that long ago it started to occasionally auto-press the Start button (may have been from when me and my sister end up ripping the cable out as a kid and I had to re-attach it, something that surprising can't be so easily done with first-party controllers, as I recall. Unless you know soldering probably (it's been so long since I opened one), that controller is done for should that happen.)

[edmonddantes]

I actually had a Turbo Touch--a model that worked with both SNES and Genesis (there was an adapter on the end).

For some reason as a kid I loved that thing, but as an adult I wondered why I was bothering with it.

Actually the controllers I was most interested in for the PS1 were that gen's version of the Ascii Pad. Hopefully if the SNES one was good then the PS1 would be as well. Tho I have noticed how third-party controllers can be more fragile (which kinda sucks for the Sega Genesis, because I don't like Sega's official six-button controllers--I prefer the shape of bigger third-party ones like the SG Propad 6. But then the three I have all have some slight imperfection. The one I use the most always detects pressing Up as a diagonal).