The Gravis Gamepad was the gamepad at the time. It wasn’t a great gamepad, but it was what we had.
The screw on joystick with the colorful face buttons is so iconic
I remember getting one of these. Looks like absolute garbage to my 2023 brain, but in 1998 I was just happy not to be using my keyboard to play pirated ROMs on ZSNES any more.
ZSNES in 1998? Did they even have sound working then? IIRC it wasn't until 2000 or so that SNES emulation really became playable.
Sound was working, but transparency wasn't, so in certain parts of certain games e.g. 600 AD in Chrono Trigger where there was a fog effect, it would be opaque, and you'd have to go into the emulator menu and switch that layer off to see what you were doing.
But hey, it ran at playable speeds on a Pentium 1 / 100Mhz so it wasn't all bad.
