My ass.... ehyahahaha.

Ok so I am not crazy then! Yeah, its miserable with this setup. I bought a modkit for the og controller for that exact reason.

Honestly, these should have shipped this way. They look so much better

I wonder if the original N64 controller would have been better served if Nintendo made more 2D games for it, or sold emulated games on it, or otherwise made more use of the d-pad.

I don't have a proper gc controller but I do have the retrofighter gc. For perfect dark and goldeneye, the "modern" layout on the 8bitdo controller feels really odd. I was not able to get comfortable with any of the layouts. Then again, its been years since I played around on a console and not been able to tweak the individual mapping so it could just be me.

For racing games and platformers they are great.

I have the gamecube one and the og xbox one. They feel better than the gc ones and about the same as the og xbox one.