Wavebird vs Wired?

[Radchu24]

I love the idea of the Wireless controllers having more freedom, but because of the batteries, I'd buy a wired Wii remote if there was such a thing.

There is not. Besides then you can’t play on a wii family / mini. The battery is amazing. One decade later it went done by ONE BAR!

 

[Radchu24]

Yeah, In my opinion, Wavebirds are the best alternative you can get to wired controllers, since the grips and overall shape is just like the GC controllers (the battery section doesn't get in your way, unless you have a real freaky playing style I guess). The only thing bad about them, as previously mentioned, is in tournament play.

Who plays GC tournament anymore (ahem Nintendo switch).

 

[ScaryMunky]

Man really just threw down a sextuple post on a 13 year necro. Nice. My wavebird is the only one to survive out of all my og controllers. It stayed in great shape on account of being abandoned from us growing tired of replacing the batteries.

 

[Tahjima]

Is their any lag or anything like that with the wavebird? Like does it affect frame perfect timing things in any way?

 

[ScaryMunky]

Is their any lag or anything like that with the wavebird? Like does it affect frame perfect timing things in any way?

Do GameCube WaveBird Controllers Lag?

I looked all over for the answer to this online and no one had any proof, just feelings and other icky things. So I figured it out myself.

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I found this with a quick google search. The validity of this I can't speak to, but some of the comments may provide more insight. I'm sure there's a more extensive test of the wavebird out there somewhere.

 

[Synnett]

They are not tourney legal, because there are only 16 channels, and in the case of a tournament, someone in the audience could just switch to your channel and mess up with your inputs / play for you.

There's also a bit of lag, but I couldn't tell you how much.