{"id":102493,"date":"2019-10-25T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/hardware_review_retro-bits_bluetooth_sega_pads_are_perfect_for_retro_on_your_switch"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T15:30:00","slug":"hardware-review-retro-bits-bluetooth-sega-pads-are-perfect-for-retro-on-your-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/25\/hardware-review-retro-bits-bluetooth-sega-pads-are-perfect-for-retro-on-your-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Review: Retro-Bit’s Bluetooth Sega Pads Are Perfect For Retro On Your Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not a week seems to pass without news of yet another new wired or wireless controller for the Switch. We’ve had SNES-themed ones<\/a>, Sega-styled ones<\/a> and even ones that try to offer the perfect platform for one-on-one fighters<\/a>. There’s clearly a demand for a wide range of interface options, and peripheral maker Retro-Bit has stepped into the fold with two of its best efforts yet.<\/p>\n

Remember those wired Sega Saturn and Mega Drive \/ Genesis controllers<\/a> were reviewed a while back? They were sadly not compatible with Switch, but at the time, Retro-Bit was keen to point out that it was also working on wireless variants than would be. Those variants are now with us, and we’re pleased to report they’re everything we expected them to be.<\/p>\n

Thanks to an official licence it has with Sega itself, Retro-Bit’s pads carry the Sega branding and look and feel almost exactly like the real thing. Both have brilliant rolling D-Pads which are perfect<\/em> for games like Street Fighter<\/a><\/strong> and King of Fighters<\/a><\/strong>, and (while we’re on the topic of brawlers) offer up six face buttons \u2013 the perfect layout for those three punch and kick strengths that Capcom titles rely on so heavily. Let’s just get this out there right now: both of these pads control like a dream<\/em>. Pulling off special moves is a breeze and pretty much any game that relies more on digital input than analogue is downright wonderful<\/em> to play.<\/p>\n

Both controllers come with dedicated ‘Home’ buttons, while ‘Start’ acts as ‘plus’ and ‘Select’ acts as ‘minus’. Inside, there’s a 550mAh rechargeable battery which offers 20 hours of play on a single charge (a Micro-USB cable is included in the box). Range is advertised as 30 feet \/ 10m, and, as a bonus, the pads can also be used with your Android device (including Amazon Fire sticks and the like), PS3, Mac and PC (wired and wireless).<\/p>\n

When playing on Switch, rumble is supported \u2013 it’s quite aggressive and causes the pad to vibrate quite loudly, but it gets the job done. A row of four LEDs on the top of the controller show which ‘player’ it is connected as; pairing the pads with the Switch is a matter of powering it up while holding Start and Y \u2013 our review units linked in a matter of seconds.<\/p>\n