A friend of mine found this third party NES controller. It's wireless and he says it works perfectly.I haven't had the chance to test it myself, and it's fucking impossible to find any information on line.Anyone has seen it before?

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Anonymous 09/11/15 (Fri) 01:12:21 No.3786

A friend of mine found this third party NES controller. It's wireless and he says it works perfectly.

I haven't had the chance to test it myself, and it's fucking impossible to find any information on line.

Anyone has seen it before?

Anonymous 09/11/15 (Fri) 01:18:56 No.3787

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This is the receiver- Front and back.

I googled WONTEC WT-109 but nothing happened. Notice how it says "wireless joystick" even though it's a gamepad.

Anonymous 09/11/15 (Fri) 01:21:18 No.3788

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Still in the package. It has no additional information.

Anonymous 09/11/15 (Fri) 01:25:10 No.3789

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This is my mate testing an identical unit using his NES.

I wasn't there but he sent me this video. I don't think he knows more than I do about the controller.

Anonymous 09/11/15 (Fri) 01:33:32 No.3790

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The back of the unit. No additional information.

I think there may be something written inside, in the circuit itself. I don't wanna open it, though.

It uses two AA batteries. By the way, the plastic feels very light and cheap, but it's not terrible. The buttons and D-Pad are fairly solid.

Sorry for posting over and over. This board doesn't seem to allow multiple pics per post.

Anonymous 09/11/15 (Fri) 01:57:46 No.3791

Tried googling some stuff about it myself. Only thing that seemed to come up that was relevant (at least on the first few pages; seems like a lot of results are also foreign) was some post on some forum called Megalextoria by someone who found one. Not much information to be had there though (beyond the poster mentioning it seemed to use a radio frequency to work), as no one even responded to the thread.

There's also the issue that trying to search a phrase with "Wontec" in it seems to default toward 'Wintec" or "Wontek," the latter being a phone review company.

Searching "Wontec" itself though brings up something that might be related though. There's a small website under that name (with a .tw domain, and last updated in 2007), and on their about page it lists a claim of "1989: First RF remote joystick in the world" so it at least seems somewhat video game related. Is there any sort of production year on that NES controller your friend found?

Anonymous 09/11/15 (Fri) 02:43:19 No.3793

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>>3791

>Is there any sort of production year on that NES controller your friend found?

I'm holding it right now, and the answer is no. There's no text anywhere in the plastic and it came with no instructions.

>it seemed to use a radio frequency to work

I was about to ask about exactly that. That's pretty much what I wanted to know, since it's obviously not Bluetooth I was afraid it may be infrared. I've read only negative things about infrared controllers, vid related. They're basically remote controls.

The story of why I have one: Santiago, Chile. 2015.

My mate was walking down the street and found one on some old toy store. Went in and asked if they had just the one in the window, because he wanted at least two. The clerk told him they had a bunch and my friend asked how many they had in stock. Apparently they had like 40 units.

So my friends offered to buy them all for a ridiculous amount, expecting a negotiation, and the guy just said yes. So he went home with a load of these controllers for about $22 American dollars.

He saved a couple for himself, saved one for me, and sold the rest to retro hipsterinos. I think he sold them all, but I'm not sure. I'll ask him tomorrow because after I test mine I may want another (I'll have to pay for that one, though).

Anyway, given that the only possibilities are infrared, RF and Bluetooth, I'm happy about it being RF. That falls right in the middle on the scale of acceptable wireless performance.

Anonymous 09/15/15 (Tue) 07:44:42 No.3828

>>3791

Sounds like without some kind of receiver, it has fuck all ways to interface with the NES. Perhaps, take it apart and take photos of the board. That may help reveal better information about it.

Anonymous 09/16/15 (Wed) 01:57:49 No.3831

>>3828

There is a receiver, silly.

See >>3787

Anonymous 09/16/15 (Wed) 04:40:12 No.3832

>>3831

Operating on minimal food makes it difficult to focus on anything in front of me, only peripheral shit. Sorry. Can't think straight. Ah well, payday in a few days.

Still, board photos would be nice. Dunno what became of the Classic Games Wiki, since I stopped doing pretty much anything after photographing a large portion of my more obscure items.