{"id":94513,"date":"2019-06-03T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/hardware_review_retro_fighters_brawler64_controller_-_a_crowdfunded_upgrade_to_your_battered_original"},"modified":"2019-06-03T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:00:00","slug":"hardware-review-retro-fighters-brawler64-controller-a-crowdfunded-upgrade-to-your-battered-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/03\/hardware-review-retro-fighters-brawler64-controller-a-crowdfunded-upgrade-to-your-battered-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Review: Retro Fighters Brawler64 Controller – A Crowdfunded Upgrade To Your Battered Original?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For a system that’s no longer in active production, the Nintendo 64 has sure seen a lot of new controllers recently. We reviewed the Tribute64<\/a> pad not so long ago, and now it’s the turn of the Retro Fighters Brawler64 \u2013 a pad that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter<\/a> as a “next generation” offering for Nintendo’s much-loved 64-bit system.<\/p>\n

We’re actually coming to the Brawler64 a little late, as the pad has already been a huge success at retail to the point where its creator, Retro Fighters, has produced a revised variant which fixes a pretty major problem (more on that in a second) as well as versions that have different coloured plastic casing.<\/p>\n

The most notable thing about the Brawler64 is that, like the Hori Mini Pad<\/a> and Tribute64 controller, it drops the iconic three-prong design seen on the original N64 pad and instead opts for a more traditional two-prong approach, adding a second Z trigger to ensure everything works as planned. The analogue stick and D-Pad also swap positions, but otherwise, it’s business as usual.<\/p>\n