rad-man:

captainsnoop:

captainsnoop:

captainsnoop:

i cant believe melee’s meta has gotten to a point where it relies on using broken controllers to pull off super unintended moves and they still insist that what they’re doing isn’t exploiting glitches and they expect to be taken seriously

like, you are not playing super smash brothers melee at this point. the game you are playing is made out of melee’s mangled corpse. you have gone beyond playing “not the way the devs intended” to “not the way the HARDWARE MANUFACTURERS intended” 

you’re relying on hardware that is malfunctioning to do these things and wondering why nintendo doesn’t support you or your community 

it’s insane 

gladly! 

so, one in fifty gamecube controllers have a factory defect that results in the analog stick being a little bit looser, and that looseness in the analog stick allows for more precise analog stick inputs without the stick’s “snap back” interfering 

there are melee tricks that require broken controllers like this, so these controllers are highly desirable in the melee community 

these broken controllers allow for inputs that would otherwise only be possible with a digital controller like a hitbox 

one smash player famously quit a tournament because he lost his broken controller and couldn’t perform the glitches he wanted to in order to win 

imagine if you entered a tournament for any other fighting game and said “I REFUSE to play unless you let me use my hitbox” 

you’d be thrown out, because your hitbox would be considered an unfair advantage over other players 

but fuck it, it’s melee, and melee is all about cheating, and “if i can’t cheat the way i wanna cheat I’M GOING HOME”

pat from Super Best Friends put it best:

“If you have to rely on your equipment being non-standard to everybody else’s in a way that gives you an advantage, that is cheating.” 

Indeed he did put it best. Here’s his 20 minute rant about it the week it happened.