Insignia™ - Wired Controller for NES Classic Edition - White

Its a controller for a NES classic. It looks reasonably like the one that comes with the unit, but with black buttons. The cord is longer than the stupidly short one Nintendo decided was a good idea. I'm convinced that this is just a hair less responsive than the official controller, even with the extension. Not a huge difference, just a tiny bit.

With extra nes classic controllers tough to come by I thought I'd try this out and was surprised to find it quite serviceable especially as a second controller. The feel and weight are close to the original and button spacing is right on. They are raised just a touch more but not enough to really effect you. I would also note that the plastic feels a little different as well. One nice thing is that it comes with a 10 ft cable. It's not as good as the original but it's close enough and if it's not your main controller it can fill in nicely. Recommend.

I got this as a secondary controller for those times of old school PvP fun. I admit, I didn't really use it, staying with the Nintendo offered one. I had bought an extension cord for it and all was okay. For a review I decided to try this Player 2 controller. Simply, there's no difference between the two Granted, the greatest reason to buy this is the extra length of the cable. It alone is the reason to get it. I had heard there was lag when using this third party controllers. I didn't notice any on the games that I played using it. Even the way it's modeled to look like Nintendo's is a great feature (though one can say it's too close of a clone and be turned off). While the extended cable is the reason to get it the deal is sweetened by THIS MODEL BEING IN STOCK AND CHEAPER!!! Truly, don't even try and find a Nintendo branded second controller, Insignia nailed it with this peripheral.

These are pretty nicely made and are really close replicas of the Nintendo controller with two notable differences. Fist the good: The cable is nice and long. None of that short cable nonsense that Nintendo pulled. Second is a minor complaint that the D-Pad's pivot point is flat and not tall enough. This makes it so you can literally press it straight down and activate all 4 directions (U,D,L,R) simultaneously. This makes it less than accurate in the heat of action. This can be fixed by modifying that center pivot as I have done this on both of mine. Essentially you need cut off and replace the flat nub with a ball (or 1/2 a ball technically). I use air-soft pellets with a flat ground on one side to accomplish this. Compare to a genuine Nintendo D-Pad to get the height correct then glue it in place epoxy. After that it's pretty spot on.

I really wanted to like this controller. At first it looked just like the original and got great reviews here.Comparing it to the original and playing it is another story.The d pad is way too high and the buttons have how to explain it take longer to press compared to the quick presses on the original. These 2 problems make you miss a lot of jumps when doing speed runs in Mario. Not only that the A button doesn't always fully work and a character might only jump half way. The controller is slightly lighter but feels great in your hand and has really good cord length.It works perfect on Wii U VC games but when going into the regular Wii VC games it only works on some games. For the price go for it but it doesn't match the Nintendo controller if you were thinking that.