Like with Super Monkey Ball, F-Zero GX and Kiririn Squash, this stick absolutely excels at minute precision control, and the large surface area combined with Octo-gate make precise movements along specific directions extremely easy to pull off. Was playing through my PS2 copy of Burnout until I got to where I did on GameCube all those years ago, so I thought I’d switch over.Īnd wow, what a difference the analogue stick makes. I just wanted to express my appreciation for the Octo-gate analogue stick on the GameCube, which may well be the best analogue stick Nintendo has ever shipped. I do have a question for anyone else who owns a GC Loader: does Swiss cancel the GC boot up sequence midway before it loads? It kind of sucks not being able to see the whole sequence with the cube jumping. No more fussing about with dodgy lasers from AliExpress that may or may not work. I’m so happy to be able to play my GC games again without a lot of pain. Not having to worry that my optical drive won’t read my SD Media Launcher disc just so I can load GBI to play some Advance Wars is absolutely amazing.
Oh man, once it was up and running… what a huge improvement! Not having to worry that I’ll get a disc read error every time I open a door in Metroid Prime is such a major relief. Much faster and I don’t have to drag out my Wii and wrestle with the wiimotes and such.)
I finally got my GC Loader yesterday and spent the whole evening installing it, setting up the SD card, backing up my games (I initially wanted to manually do it myself by ripping my discs using my hacked Wii… but I decided to just download the ISO files instead.