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Hardware Review: Krikzz Joyzz Wireless Sega Mega Drive Controller - Perfection Comes At A Price

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The best wireless option for Sega fans.

If you're a keen follower of the modern-day retro gaming scene then you'll no doubt have heard of Igor Golubovskiy, better known as
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. Over the past few years, Krikzz has built up a solid reputation thanks to his superb line of
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which cunningly allow you to play ROMs on vintage hardware. After creating carts for almost every retro system you could mention – as well as iterating on them to add new features and
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– he has now turned his attention to other items of classic hardware, the most notable of which is the rather swanky Joyzz wireless controller for the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis, if you prefer).

Bluetooth pads for old consoles are nothing new;
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has been producing high-quality facsimiles of
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and
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pads for years, and these have been given additional appeal by the fact that they also work wonderfully with the Nintendo Switch. However, while 8BitDo does offer a
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which covers the fantastic Sega Mega Drive 6-button controller, it's not actually compatible with the original system. Next year, 8BitDo will release a proper wireless Sega pad – the M30 – alongside
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, but for now, Krikzz has this small sector of the market all to himself (Sega did release an
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back in the day, but it uses an infrared signal so you have to have line-of-sight with the receiver plugged into the console).

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