Sega Dreamcast Official Controller, Used + Free C&C

£8

£2.95 ·

Shared by

sk8shodown

Joined in 2012

331

155

About this deal

Sega Dreamcast Official Controller
Designed to ergonomic perfection, the Dreamcast controller nestles comfortably in your hands yet offers an amazingly fast response. Connect up to four controllers on the Dreamcast console for multi-player action. Analogue thumb pad plus two analogue triggers. Two built-in high-speed expansion slots. Offers extremely fast response

Features:

4 Front-mounted buttons.
Analogue joustick.
Digital directional control.
2 Analoque triggers.
2 Expansion slots.
Compatible with Visual Memory Vibration Pack.

More details at

Edited by a community support team member, 20 hours ago

New Comment

65 Comments

sorted by

20 h, 20 m ago
Crazy Taxi!

Ready 2 Rumble Boxing!
3 h, 50 m ago
House if the dead

Got the game if anybody wants it (edited)
19 h, 40 m ago
Anybody had any luck de-yellowing Dreamcast stuff?

If all my childhood consoles and controllers, my Dreamcast is by far the worst.

It's more yellow than my teeth.
17 h, 51 m ago
Jerome Russell blonde Cream Peroxide, 40 Volume, 12% Peroxide - amazon for only £1.50

Coat the DC in this stuff, cover with cling film and sit in the sun for about 3 hours and it will be sparkly white.

Do it to all of my Dreamcast shells, even old DMG gameboys.
17 h, 15 m ago
Decent price. These are hilariously easy to take apart compared to other controllers as well, therefore really easy to clean and retrobrite/litebrite if you wish.

Also the early variants were really built to last. These things had magnetic Hall-effect analogue sticks and triggers which are far more resistant to stick drift than what's commonly used nowadays. Tech heads are only starting to push for this tech to be reinstated onto modern controllers pretty recently.

Sadly the final run of dreamcast controllers used the drift prone potentiometers for its analogue stuff (I think it was just the stick, not sure about triggers). Tough luck if you happen grab one of those I guess.
18 h, 22 m ago
Always wondered what that screen is for? Thought you can use it as a display to play?
17 h, 26 m ago
as says - IIRC the slide in part had a triple purpose. I was the memory card, it had a screen that provided extra information in games, and it allowed you to play very simple games on the VMU itself. I think they hoped it would almost become a mini gameboy.... but as chowchilla says they ended up being a simple tamagotchi (you could carry the vmu around in your pocket and the tamagotchi worked even if not plugged into the controller.)
17 h, 54 m ago
I had the DC at launch but at almost £8 for a nasty crusty dirty used 25yr old wired controller I vote cold. Go back to your Games Master and Bad Influence YouTube videos if you're really harking back to your nostalgia days instead you middle ages goats voting this deal hot (edited)
17 h, 26 m ago
Comments like this remind me that I may not be such a miserable sod after all
7 h, 0 m ago
The Dreamcast is very easy to paint if you are inclined towards making a custom console. as others have said, they are verye asy to dissasemble and quite often turn yellow so this can be an alternative to that. Nice fun project, here's one I did a year or so back.

(edited)
37 m ago
Best looking Dreamcast I've ever seen! I remember painting my PS1 with paint brushes back in the day
You could make a business out of them sonic ones, absolutely amazing
20 h, 14 m ago
Heat for the nostalgia

Shenmue

Silver

And my own personal fav with people around, virtual tennis 🎾
14 h, 21 m ago
Virtua Tennis was up there
20 h, 4 m ago
Metropolis Street Racer
Power Stone 1 & 2
Shenmue
Soul Calibur
Ikaruga
Crazy Taxi

Good times

#EDIT: If it came with the VMU, as pictured above, then it would be worth a bit more. Cex pictures shows just the controller. (edited)
11 h, 56 m ago
Still got my launch console, remember my mam taking me to HMV after school and bagging one.
You could go on websites back then with the Dreamcast, it was 1p per minute, seemed good value at the time... mind back then a page did take about 20-30 seconds to load
10 h, 4 m ago
this was one of my faves!

7 h, 46 m ago
Damn. This brought back some memories!! (edited)
8 h, 57 m ago
Those VMU were fab, with the little extra games on them etc. Dreamcast was ahead of its time.
16 h, 41 m ago
There are people on here younger than this console controller
15 h, 22 m ago
Why do you feel the need to depress me even more?!
16 h, 15 m ago
Buying a dreamcast and modding it was one of the best things I done a couple year back. Some great games on the system.
18 h, 39 m ago
That’s it, I’m digging mine out.
13 h, 42 m ago
REZ, Le Mans 24hr, Border Down, Soul Calibur ... so many classics
I also still have my Bleemcast discs for Gran Turismo 2, Tekken 3 and Metal gear solid. (edited)
12 h, 1 m ago
Shenmue
1 h, 29 m ago
Ah man, I absolutely loved the Dreamcast. Probably the console I spent the most time on.

I can still hear the Sonic Adventure soundtrack now 🥹
18 h, 51 m ago
Another promotion for CEX!
Author
19 h, 54 m ago
VIRTUA TENNIS
VIRTUA STRIKER
SEGA RALLY 2
Sooo many memories
17 h, 29 m ago
Decent price if it’s in good condition. I picked up 4 new controller and 2 VMUs for £15 a few years back on eBay. They’ve gone up in value a bit.
17 h, 6 m ago
For me it was Soldier Of Fortune, I'm absolutely garbage at gaming, I don't game but a mate lent me the console plus games when he bought himself the original Xbox.

Anyway somehow managed to finish it (albeit with the help of a walkthrough)
4 h, 39 m ago
Wish I never got rid of mine. Absolutely legendary console. Think most people didn't realise as well that this console has zero copyright protection on the games.

Could literally put them in your pc and copy them to another blank disc. (Never did this btw)
18 h, 44 m ago
Lovely controller
11 h, 11 m ago
To be honest the DC controller is a bit flawed, it really needed to have had two analog sticks rather than just one. Given the amount of PC ports it had it was a pity that it couldn’t use a twin stick control system as seen on the DualShock controllers, it makes FPS games feel clunky with just the one. I had Unreal Tournament and Quake III on my DC, but PS2 shooters felt so much better to play.
16 h, 24 m ago
Ah Dreamcast controller, the most uncomfortable first-party controller I've ever used. Designed to ergonomic perfection it is definitely not.
13 h, 43 m ago
n64 controller says hi
16 h, 18 m ago
I wish SEGA, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft would do a limited production run of some new controllers for their old systems, since the controllers tend to fare much worse than the systems themselves. I thought it was really cool how Nintendo released the GameCube controller again for Smash, and that it was fully compatible with the GameCube system and not just exclusively for the Wii U/Switch version of Smash. (edited)
13 h, 7 m ago
I remember when these and VMUs were dirt cheap on eBay a few years back, there was also quite a few sealed games including Jet Set Radio. Wish I had stocked up at the time!
12 h, 7 m ago
There is no time!!! You have no time!!! What game was that? I loved the dream cast
10 h, 9 m ago
Can't imagine how yellow most of these will be!!!
9 h, 26 m ago
The most nonsensical controller in the world. Only one analogue stick in the post Dual Shock-era? Cord at the bottom? Rumble as an addon? I like keeping original controllers for emulation, since I stopped using original hardware. I did not keep any of these crappy controllers.
6 h, 56 m ago
I think in its defence, dual analogue sticks were still pretty new and hadn't really been exploited into the defacto setup for navigating 3d spaces as they are today.

The cord can be clipped into place at the top of the console. The thing I didn't like about the controller was it felt a bit too circular, it needed slightly more of a winged design to it.
1 h, 29 m ago
The GOAT of consoles. Just got a GDEMU for mine and completely transforms the console. Goodbye scalpers and noisy GDROM drive
4 m ago
Power stone!