The only good Saturn pads Iâve played with have been the ones Sega made for the Saturn itself and the PS2.
The others have been third-party manufactured and NONE of them has held up as well as original Sega-manufacture pads.
Iâve got two of the âofficialâ USB pads and will say without reservations that the D-pads and buttons donât register as cleanly and crisply as the original Japanese pads. Theyâre decent pads as-is but still not as good as the originals and the PS2 versions.
Of course, the remaining stock of pads is dwindling as people break them through normal use, abuse them, or scavenge them for stick parts.
Wish Sega was still in the hardware business for controllers but nowadays their focus seems to be squeezing the last bit of money from the nostalgia crowd that loves Sonic. Donât know what happened to that company, but they seem to have genuinely stopped caring about a lot of quality issues after the Dreamcast diedâŚ