Gamecube Microcon Wireless Controller (Colors May Vary)

Nintendo stopped the production of the "Wavebird". Nothing can beat the Wavebird. You can buy the "Classic Controller" that you attach to the "Wiimote", but why would you have a thing dangling on your controller? You can still buy the "Wavebird", but you need to pay for a black market price. And how can you trust a used one?

The "Microcon" is much smaller than Nintendo Wavebird. Good for smaller kids but annoying to larger hands.
Uses 2 AAA's instead of 2 AA's

Pros:
- Very responsive. We are using it for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
- No channel to set on the receiver and the controller. At times you are baffled why suddenly you lost contact of your "Wavebird" with the videogame machine, realizing you just accidentally nudge the channel selector on the controller.
- The battery cover is attached to the controller. One of our Wavebird battery covers is missing. This wont happen on the Microcon.
- Only 15$?

Cons:
- On/Off switch does not have a light compared to the Wavebird. There is no light to remind you if you forgot to turn it off.
- Made of very cheap plastic.
- Start button is a struggle to push.

I bought three of them, I already had one that turned out to be much better quality than these that I bought. The controllers pick up each other's signals and switch between player 1, 2, 3, and 4. Yes they even pick up the signal of the one I already had. They do this randomly without warning. They also do not respond very well. Several times, we push buttons or use the joystick yet the game does not do what the controller is doing. This does not happen as often as the signal switching. Overall unsatisfied with this product.

I purchased four of these controllers about a month ago. Of the four, one was dead on arrival. The second had persistent problems with control drift. The third died about a week ago, and the fourth works intermittently.

In addition, these controllers were too small for comfort. Even my girlfriend's small hands were too big for this "micro" controller. (She thinks that the PS2 controllers are too large!)

Amazon sells several other wireless GameCube controllers. (Some even have rumble features!) Spend the extra five or ten dollars and get one of those instead.

Cheaply made controller that works 15% of the time straight out of the box. Left control stick "strays" & doesn't work even after resetting controller. I'm going to return & get another Pelican cordless.

...every time I use it I'm reminded of how much better Nintendo's own Wavebird wireless remote is compared to this cheap feeling, yet workable control. I can't complain too much because this control doesn't cost too much and wireless and it's also one of the only wireless gamecube controls still for sale. This control feels very very cheap and who knows how long it will last before it breaks. I also don't like the decision to use AAA batteries since I've always used rechargeable AA batteries and don't own rechargeable AAA batteries. I just hope that Nintendo wises up and starts making the Wavebird again. (Please Nintendo!)