Haha yeah mine is pretty worn too. I was gonna wait for the N3DS to hit NA.. Nintendo is saying it won't for a while. Projected 2016... So damn it. I'll just grab the WiiU version and continue smashing there.

HA good luck trying to find those gamecube controller adapters, those things are already extinct.

Amazon still seems to have stock for em so might get lucky

Nope you're out of luck there too. unless you wanna buy the over priced ones that come with a single port. seems ordering from best buy online might be your best bet.

Oh I'm Canadian so the .ca site has the adapter =P

Not according to this! Looks like there's a new model coming out. :O

says not available though, thats the one im reffering to. my friend and i are trying to get one but all stores are sold out XD Ugh i don't wanna play with those shitty wiimotes....

It says they come out the 21st of November. That's in just four days. :U Search for it on Best Buy, their site'll let you pre-order one.

Oddly there's Wii U gamecube controllers out now since yesterday!

But that's been known since the demo came out. People are playing it like it's a Gamecube controller, but they need to just play it in a calm manner. But that won't matter for some since they'll be moving up to the Wii U in a few days.

Well I don't have a WiiU yet at least. But I agree just being careful and going full retard on it

I did say "for some" since not everyone has a Wii U. But yeah, Gamecube controller != 3DS controller, so going crazy on it will strain the handheld a lot more than necessary.

No I know you meant some I was just saying I'm thinking of getting next year and agreeing with you. The 3DS version is good just don't go crazy with it.

yea..its not easy playing a smash game "calmly". Especially since its laggy online

Which is why you don't wanna play too crazily either. Just breaks your controller sooner for little success on laggy conditions.

I don't understand what playing in a calm manner is suppose to mean, it's an extremely frenetic game that requires you to be in near constant motion. Not saying it happened on it's own, just wasn't expecting it to wear down so damn fast.

I guess everyone peering at my word choice a little too much to the letter. I'll say it so everyone can understand:

Gorilla-handling your controls like you're not going to make the input is not ideal on such a handheld like the 3DS, especially with latency being terrible at times and the 3DS not use to constant pressure of a Smash player. The most optimal way of playing in such situation would be either play more to precision of inputs (not wildly flickering your controls repeatedly to do one move to another) or (for some people; not everyone has one, I know) to wait until the Wii U to come out and use more durable controllers. Cause when it was happening the most near late September and last month, people were playing their 3DS with literally no care in the world.

I'm seriously considering just knuckling down and splurging on a 3DS XL and 32 GB SD card so I can have all my games and stuff again, instead of having to deal with my Ambassador 3DS that's positively ancient.

Mind as well wait until the new model comes out sometime in 2015.

You're talking about the "New 3DS" I'm guessing?

Yep. According to Nintendo, they didn't release it in western territories yet because they felt there wasn't enough market saturation of the original model yet. Perhaps if there was no internet, that would have made sense. Everybody knows about this thing, so why drop cash on the inferior model when the "New" one's right around the corner?

Indeedy. The "new" 3DS is, from what I understand, essentially more an "upgrade" over the original model than a "new" handheld altogether.

On the plus side (if any), it will still retain backwards compatibility in not just playing 3DS games from the older model, but still NDS & NDSi games as well. Again, that's just what I've gathered regarding news on it so far.

i cant wait for smash bros wii u i already pre purchased it and just waiting for it to come out

So far, I have NOT had that yet on my 3ds.

Super Smash Bros is way too powerful for the 3DS

seriously? I've had my 3DS since 2011, I've played Smash Bros and kid icarus and a bunch of other aggressive games and my circle pad hasn't lost any of its spring. I can't believe how ham handed some people can treat their video games sometimes.

I dunno man, I've played my 3DS constantly since I bought it a few years ago. Wasn't until I started playing Smash that my circle pad started going kaput, or maybe some units have weaker pads than others. Maybe I got one from a bum run.

you know, something like this happened with the gamecube. When we were playing Meelee someone figured out a trick called "wave dashing" that could make a normally slow character move much faster. It also DESTROYED the control stick, after a couple days all the communal controllers were messed up and I wouldn't let anybody touch mine.

I put plenty of hours of smash into my Gamecube pads. The original that came with the system still works fine. Maybe the Circle pad is not an especially good design for something like smash?

I never damaged my controllers either, and I played hundreds of hours of Smash on the gamecube. Blame those assholes with their damn "wave dashing" for screwing everything up.

I'm guilty............of barely touching the game at all. *retreats shamefully*

no dont go :(

Awwww.....!

Work usually has me too busy to play games anymore...I still buy them though. I played SSB4 a little bit the day the 3DS one came out.

i still play it im tryin to unlock everythin lol i play as soon as i get off work

Are you getting the WiiU version too so you can download MewTwo?

i already have it prepurchased on my wii u just have to wait till friday

Cool! I'll pick mine up in store and also get my Pokemon preorders.

nice my friend preordered omega sapphire

I've been looking forward to these remakes since the Johto one was done.

nice

I play gently on Smash Bros, but that didn't stop this from happening.

At least it's only the rubber cover and not the entire stick. It was glued on terribly in the first place anyways.

Yeah, I think the rubbers all under the pad and causing it to stick. Hopefully I can just get some canned air in there.

...Well, I don't have that game yet, but I am glad I sprung for the extended Gamestop warranty when I got my 3DSXL

My circle pad is worn, but not gone, and I don't have 3DS Smash.... Mariokart7 is my culprit, though

I was just amazed at how fast it got worn out. O_O