Its just like any other imitation system. The wireless controllers SUCK BIG TIME!!!! I HATED THEM!!! I have to aim these pile of trash directly at the system otherwise the system gets no reception–isn’t that stupid? And i mean, THE CONTROLLER MUST, and i do mean, MUST, be at the system’s level. If its on a shelve, you need to stand-up and keep the controller directly at its level, with your wrists bent forward so it aims PERFECTLY at the system’s receiver. No joke, no exaggeration at all!!! Yeah. SO, the way i have my system set up is the system is on a high shelve sort of above my PlayStation, N64, etc. But i can’t use this this way if i want to use wireless controllers. HOWEVER!! This system (Which, what I’m about to mention, does in fact make up for the crappy wireless controllers) has 2 controller input for each other system, 2 each. 2 nes ports, 2 sega, 2 snes. SO, i chose never to use the wireless anyways, just the OEM controllers. You know, for nostalgia, I’d rather use the original anyways. This system isn’t bad, i thought it was the best of all them. (Wireless isn’t a bad ‘convenience’, anyhow, so long as you don’t need to aim it DIRECTLY at the system… I’m babbling) This was why i gave it 5 stars. I didn’t care for the wireless, so i pretended that the wireless controllers weren’t part of it–cuz actually, they aren’t–when I purchased my first nes years ago, there weren’t any wireless… so, naturally, i consider the wireless controllers as the reject of the box and excepted the system as itself alone. Good old classic value, that’s what I’m talking about! Anyways, like i said, its just like any other imitation system–none of different whatsoever. The sound is odd at times, the beeps and boops are sometimes off in scale, but you don’t really notice too much. Its okay. All in all, its not a bad purchase. I felt i got my money’s worth. Actually, it wouldn’t have been bad though if the wireless controllers worked well. I mean, other than their ability to fail on communicating to the system? Yeah, the buttons worked well, when i had it aimed at the system, everything was very good in response. the wireless handled really well as far as the buttons when, and functionality (again, excluding its ability to communicate well with the system) God, i’m bugged about this aren’t I? The five stars i gave for the games it plays–it plays my games really well for an imitation system. The three? I gave the three stars for the systems overall design. the nes and sega are on the side of the system which, since the system is REALLY light weight, it could pull it forward and mess up your configuration if you have any. need space between these areas so the controllers (Sega or nes) can have room to sit in the input. I though the inputs on the side was a but ugly, but i didn’t think it was bad enough to make a fuss over and give it less of a rating. Also, i don’t know this for sure, but i think this system supports Japanese games too, it has a switch on the back… J and a O… i flipped it and had a genesis game inserted. I got a screen that said something about the ‘J’ and it says for the Sega part only anyways “developed for use only with the NTSC genesis systems.” Whatever this means, i don’t know–i just know it says this on a black screen only when i flip that switch off from the O, and over to J, but when its at O the Genesis part works perfectly with all my games. I hope I’m not leaving out any details. Usually, when i browse Amazon or other market place i like detailed reviews so… i hope i covered everything… All in all, this system is okay, not bad for the price.
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…unless you like to read every single interaction between pets to your kids. every interaction the characters in the game have with each other has written speech on the screen, but the pets only make pet noises. So if my daughter is playing i’m reading. great idea ea games/hasbro. the toys are marketed to 4-8 year olds. yet the game has writing geared to 7yrs or greater…