Yes yes, another Brawl blog, I’m sorry. If it makes you angry then go read someone else’s C-blog, I won’t mind.

So, either thanks to Brawl, or thanks to my own idiocy, both of my Gamecube controllers are messed up. Granted, they’re both third-party, so I really shouldn’t be too terribly surprised, but I learned quickly after purchasing the game that the Gamestop-brand white piece of crap controller’s joystick was messed up. My cursor for the character/level select stuff always travels down screen on its own, and when I’m actually fighting, whoever I picked sometimes can’t decide whether they want to be standing or ducking, or I’ll just be standing still and tap A and they’ll do their down-A attack.

I cast it aside and switched to my Mad Catz controller, which I liked more to begin with, and it worked fine for days up until I was in the middle of going through Classic Mode on Hard with Sonic, when the A button started getting STUCK. So I paused the game, switched BACK to the white Gamestop controller, and stuck with it, even through 4 hours of online matches (Das Inchworm totally kicked my ass so hard I was wearing it for a hat) until it just got too bad yesterday.

So now, after wrestling for 15 minutes with the thing trying to come up with a working custom control setup, I’m using my Classic Controller, thus sapping the battery life from my Wii remote. But I can’t be the only one, can I? Are any other Dtoiders using something OTHER than the tried and true Gamecube controller?

Also, I’ve set up a Flickr folder for my Brawl Snapshots. Only 11 shots in there right now, but hey, I’m sure it’ll grow soon…