Game Boy Advance Elite Brass Buttons - RetroSix

The buttons look great! However, they are very heavy. I had an issue where they were weighing down the pads causing the gameboy to register unwanted button presses, but after a fresh set I’ve had no issues. So I’d recommend ordering fresh button pads with these.

Very happy with these buttons, they feel great, and really make my Zelda build pop imo. I wish they would make shoulder buttons like these, and the sides as well. Would really enhance the overall esthetics of the GBA

These might come with a bunch of molding defects and deep scratches, so be prepared to shrug off some visual quirks. The burning is kinda unavoidable but the other stuff just seems like lack fo QC. Maybe it's charming, but definitely not like the photo.

As to the button feel; With original membranes it's a bit of a tight fit, it feels like they don't have as much travel as other buttons you can get. The normal OEM and aftermarket GBA buttons give a super squishy feel with those conductive rubber mebranes to begin with. But with these will definitely make that a bit worse.

However, in my case it works. My GBA had broken contacts under the d-pad. I'm using a tactile button mod with it. It's important to note that this tactile switch mod I used comes with a protective rubber membrane, so it's not meant to be plastic on switch. And that overall setup; SP style tactile buttons + protective rubber + brass d-pad makes for a really great overall feel. I'll do that for a+b as well. I play mostly really spammy games so we'll see how dorable that's gonna be. It might wear those membranes more quickly with the metal buttons.

Another thing that's a bit annoying about metal buttons is that the little hooks that keeb the a+b buttons from rotating are slashing against the plastic of the shell on rebound, and it's a bit louder and more harsh sounding. I might try to put a tiny peace of kapton tape into the cavities in the shell to dampen that. But it's not gonna be ideal since if it doesn't sit perfectly it'll get caught up.

So overall, it's not the best quality and pretty expensive. The look is decent if you vibe with the imperfections. But even then, you'll have to make a bunch of tweaks to make it satisfying, so it comes with even more cost. You might rather want to get it machined if you know a guy.

Definitely have to start out saying they are my favorite looking metal buttons on the market (at least from what I've seen). No complaints on the appearance. In fine print under the description it does say you may need to test out different membranes to get a better button feel which I hadn't taken very seriously when I had purchased them. Installing normally with no customization the feel is atrocious and unplayable in my opinion. I only had the OEM membrane and the replacement I had purchased to choose from and I wasn't going to wait around to order a different one. Both felt equally terrible. I had first thought I got defective ones since the back of my buttons were completely flat vs the OEM have a small crater in the back for the membrane to sit in. I reached out to customer service and they assured me there was no error. What I ended up doing was taking a Dremel to the back of the buttons to try and mimic the crater on the OEM buttons. Learned the hard way it's easier to remove material than it is to add material back. I ended up taking out too much but after refiling it in with a two part epoxy I found the sweet spot. Button feel is back to normal and they look great. In my opinion since these require
some sort of modification to work properly these are an incomplete product hence the "over priced" title. Again, I hadn't experimented with too many different membranes so maybe there's one out there that's a perfect fit. In conclusion they look awesome, make sure you take the warning about button feel seriously and plan to do some sort of modification to make them work.

Bought these to accompany a dark teal glow GBA, in order to match a pair of shoes.. turned out incredible. However I am getting just a lil less punch back on my B button. I swapped the cushion out be still couldn’t solve the problem. I do believe it’s just the inset of the production milling. Which can be easily dremel’d out just a tad. All in all, these are by far the fanciest set of buttons I’ve ever seen.. very nice.

They look great and have a nice clicky feel. After sharing with a friend, they pointed out the buttons get warm from your hands. That's a little weird but it's not a deal breaker for me.