I know may of you like myself love the max because of its form factor and turbo buttons, but hate the cycloid disc thingy.

In the past we have used Xbox 360 thumbsticks and some have super glued gamecube d-pads (really super glue?)

I had a thought and it worked add a NES D-Pad to it.

First we sand the back of the NES D-Pad to eliminate the bump in the back and make it flat



Once is all nice and Flat we move on to the ring of the Max where the arrows are and we start sanding and test fitting



Remember we are looking for a tight fit, Sand and Test Sand and Test until it pops right in



Im planning to mod another one in the next couple of days for a local buddy so I will take more pictures then.

I will try to record a video, it feels very natural LIKE IT BELONGS THERE

TWO PAIR;


I have modded a new one this one is sporting a Black D-Pad


This poor guy was abandoned as non working, and its shell is cracked on the corners so much so that two of the internal posts where broken, I said well no pain no gain, so I decided to step up my mod with a SNES D-Pad in it and I am still testing it, it feels good so far.

NEON GREEN


NEON PINK

This was my only gripe with the Max controller. If I ever score one in the wild I will give this a shot for sure. Thanks for sharing!

looks nice man

Nicely done !!

How does it play? Does the outer ring get in the way? Seems like a perfect use for a MAX if it plays (nearly) as good as a standard controller.

It feels great the ring does not interfere at all as your thumb is always on the dpad like the standard nes controller

My only gripe and maybe this applys to some of us, is that we are grown ups now and the max feels a bit small to the hands

Has anyone else given this mod a go or a try?

Yup, I just use snes controllers with adapters on my nes, hori turbo controllers if needs be.

Sold the one I made to YOSHI and made a new pair for UKWildcats, here are the pictures of the outcome

https://imgur.com/a/Auq19...

I wanted to chime in and let everyone know that I'm a big fan of this mod. It has handled everything I threw at it, including diagonals, beautifully. I'll do more gameplay testing here and there, but its been great so far.

Nicely done man! I'm considering the mod and I would love to see you post a video of this.

Thanks Yoshi, I am very happy I could bring the max into view and make it more accesible to all

PM incoming

 

I have made two more, one to sell and one to keep as it was too beat up to sell

I have gone wild, I am going to mod three more...

 

I just had him mod two for me and I love them! He did a great job and was very fast!!!

thanks Ukwildcats, I am really enjoying making these, glad to see you are enjoing them very much

How much is one, Bryan?

PM incoming
 

Made two more today, I feel great makibg these for you guys to enjoy

NEW NEON ORANGE

Looking to improve the mod by going super Nintendo d-pads but it gets tricky because of the size

Ooh, SNES D-pads does sound interesting. Count me in for one.  

I have to admit SNES D-Pads open a new world of possibilities but it is waaaaay harder to install as the tolerances as way higher and there is too much sanding to do plus it presents the oportunity to mess it all up.