**Controller Review: A Solid Bluetooth Option**

For Android device owners looking to upgrade their gaming experience with a controller, this Bluetooth controller is an excellent option. The device can be paired up with it but if you want to use this with games that don't natively support controllers you can pair it up in a much different way just move the selector on the side of the controller to the gear icon and repair it it'll be in mapper mode and now from the game shacks app it'll detect it and from here we can use their pre-made profiles or we can map it ourselves so I'm going to go ahead and add a game and it'll be gentian impact.

**Mapper Mode**

I'm excited about this feature because I know that there's really not much out there when it comes to controller support for Android games. But now with the ability to use mapper mode, we can totally customize the inputs so what this is doing is taking the input from the controller and turning it into a touch input on screen and it's very basic i mean it's super simple to do you can drag these around to wherever you need them hit save and you're ready to go but I find that the pre-made profiles actually work really well. Yeah, I mean we have slight movement here you can go full speed with it same thing with the camera analog sticks work great there's no analog triggers in this game i mean there's really nothing you could use them for but the way they've set this up is actually really nice and it's working really well with these touch inputs now.

**Pre- Made Profiles**

The pre-made profiles are a great feature because they allow us to get started right away without having to spend too much time setting everything up. But, there is one thing that I will say about their pre-made profile when you're trying to use a bow character it's a bit awkward because I'm using that right analog stick to aim and I'm holding b so I might add the fire button to the left shoulder but it's totally customizable so you can kind of pick and choose how you want to use this.

**Shacks App Settings**

There are several more settings that I wanted to show you inside of the shacks app. This will work in android mode or mapper mode from here we can change this function button up and right off the bat it's set to mouse mode so if I press the function button on the controller it'll turn this into a mouse and the left analog stick will control the cursor we could also set the function button up to turn on turbo in case you need that for some game and it does come in handy for older emulators.

**Additional Features**

If you do end up getting one of these controllers I highly recommend updating the firmware as soon as you get it but from here we can actually set it up to sleep after 60 minutes from 5 to 60 and we can change the led brightness so we'll turn it right back up we can reset the controller from here and calibrate the analog sticks so as soon as you get this like I mentioned update the firmware and then go into here and calibrate those analog sticks you're going to get a much better experience out of it.

**Design Issues**

However, one thing that is kind of frustrating with this controller is the design. I mean we just have so much overhang on each side here and I know it was kind of hard to pack everything that they wanted into this controller make it smaller or up closer to the phone itself but yeah, I mean as you can see there is a lot of overhang but other than that it's not a bad Bluetooth controller.

**Alternative Option: Razer Kishi**

Now, if you're not into Bluetooth i would highly recommend the razer kishi you can find those on sale all the time. They use a usb type-c connection so you don't have to worry about any kind of latency over bluetooth or 2.4 gigahertz but in the end I do think this is a solid Bluetooth controller if you're looking for a telescopic controller for your android device we have a lot of different functionality built in from that mapper setup to just running in native android mode so it'll work with cloud streaming or games that natively support controllers straight from google play.

**Conclusion**

I hope this review has been helpful for those considering purchasing one of these Bluetooth controllers. Keep an eye out for listings with a coupon attached because usually you get like five ten or even fifteen dollars off it just really depends on when you're gonna pick one of these up and if you're not into Bluetooth controllers like I mentioned, i would recommend the razer kishi.

**Additional Resources**

I'll also leave a link down below those go for 99 but they're always on sale for around 60. so keep an eye out for that also but that's gonna wrap it up for this one if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys cta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a pretty interesting little android controller and actually this also works for ios but in this video we're just going to be testing it with android at some point this was up on either any gogo or kickstarter but this recently popped up on my amazon feed and i figured i'd go ahead and pick it up this is known as the shacks s5b and inside of the box we're going to get a controller with a case we also get our usb type-c charging cable user manual and an alternate d-pad so yeah this does look pretty interesting it's a telescopic bluetooth controller for android or ios and at first glance you wouldn't notice that it's a telescopic controller until you pull it apart i'm going to tell you right now the pictures that i've seen don't look great with your phone inserted in the middle but i can actually overlook that if it's a good controller for android and i'll show you what i'm talking about here i would have loved for these controllers to be a little closer to the phone itself but it works and it does hold these larger phones this is the red magic 6r and they have an application that allows you to map this controller to games that don't use controllers in the first place which is a big plus as for the layout i mean it's a basic layout here we have dual analog sticks d-pad abxy we also have start select a back button for android home function and power taking a look at the top we have two shoulder buttons and two trigger buttons these trigger buttons do look a little odd they do have a lot of throw to them but that's because they're analog triggers which means in certain games that support it like most racing games if you press it just a little bit you're gonna give it a little bit of gas or a little bit of break depending on which button you press and a lot of these bluetooth android controllers don't support this basically they're on or off but we have a full 100 range with both of these triggers here over on the right hand side we do have a selector switch from android windows ios and the very last one is the mapper function which will work with the shacks app and we're going to take a look at that in a second what this does is allow the controller to work with games that don't natively support controllers like ginge and impact down here we have our bluetooth pairing button and this has five functional leds the very first one is going to be our battery indicator and the last four change depending on which mode we're in be it android windows ios or even the mapper setting and like we saw with the unboxing we have two different d-pad covers here getting this paired up to your android device is pretty easy we're gonna go with android mode which will work with games that natively support android so we'll power it up press the pairing button on the bottom here two blue leds will start rapidly flashing and we can move over to the phone now just make sure you're in your bluetooth settings it should show right up give it a second here to scan for these devices there it is we'll just go ahead and pair it and i'm on android 11 so this might look a little different from older versions of android but there we have it we're now in android mode and this will work with emulators and games that support controllers right out of the box we don't have to do any setup it's basically working in x input mode like an xbox controller would connected to your phone now one thing that they offer for free from google play is the shacks app and this comes in really handy you can update the firmware which i would highly recommend doing as soon as you start this up you will need to have the controller plugged into power to update the firmware but we also have this gamepad tester and i can show you here that we have those analog triggers so everything else is just going to be on or off but when we move up here to the triggers you can see that we have analog input zero to a hundred percent both of these here and this comes in really handy for racing games and taking a look at the analog stick input it's actually pretty good we have slight movement you can see that it's not just on or off this is a true analog stick and some of the cheaper controllers that you'll find on amazon are basically on or off i mean there's not much throw there and a lot of them have a huge dead zone but this is doing way better than i thought it would so the first thing i wanted to do was test a couple games that natively support controllers in android there was no setup whatsoever i needed to do with this all i did was pair it up in android mode and it's working with minecraft and if you're not sure which games natively support controllers inside of the shacks app they do have a link to their website they have a full list of games next up we have the new next up we have the recently ported version of bikini bottom for android and this does support controllers as you can see so with games like asphalt 9 real racing 3 gta san andreas bully there are a ton of games that do natively support controllers and this will work right out of the box with no setup whatsoever last thing i wanted to test here in android mode was the d-pad so i've gotten to a little bit of emulation here this is marvel vs capcom 2 running in the redream emulator and i wanted to test out this d-pad i seem to be missing a few here and there i could get used to it but as you can hear it's got a little bit of a clicky sound to it and it's very oddly shaped i've actually never messed around with the controller with a d-pad shape like this so i think my best solution would be use the other d-pad adapter i've actually become a big fan of these dished adapters and with something like this it does make it a lot easier to use so we've got regular old android mode covered as long as the game supports a controller it'll work with it but if you want to use this with games that don't natively support controllers you can pair it up in a much different way just move the selector on the side of the controller to the gear icon and repair it it'll be in mapper mode and now from the game shacks app it'll detect it and from here we can use their pre-made profiles or we can map it ourselves so i'm going to go ahead and add a game and it'll be gentian impact i can't wait till it really adds controller support for android but you can start it just like it sits with their pre-made profile or we can go into edit mode and from here this is going to allow us to totally customize the inputs so what this is doing is taking the input from the controller and turning it into a touch input on screen and it's very basic i mean it's super simple to do you can drag these around to wherever you need them hit save and you're ready to go but i find that the pre-made profiles actually work really well and yeah i mean we have slight movement here you can go full speed with it same thing with the camera analog sticks work great there's no analog triggers in this game i mean there's really nothing you could use them for but the way they've set this up is actually really nice and it's working really well with these touch inputs now the one thing i will say about their pre-made profile when you're trying to use a bow character it's a bit awkward because i'm using that right analog stick to aim and i'm holding b so i might add the fire button to the left shoulder but it's totally customizable so you can kind of pick and choose how you want to use this there's a few more settings that i wanted to show you inside of the shacks app this will work in android mode or mapper mode from here we can change this function button up and right off the bat it's set to mouse mode so if i press the function button on the controller it'll turn this into a mouse and the left analog stick will control the cursor we could also set the function button up to turn on turbo in case you need that for some game and it does come in handy for older emulators if you do end up getting one of these controllers i highly recommend updating the firmware as soon as you get it but from here we can actually set it up to sleep after 60 minutes from 5 to 60 and we can change the led brightness so we'll turn it right back up we can reset the controller from here and calibrate the analog sticks so as soon as you get this like i mentioned update the firmware and then go into here and calibrate those analog sticks you're going to get a much better experience out of it so yeah i actually like the controller i mean the functionality of it works great but i hate the design i mean we just have so much overhang on each side here and i know it was kind of hard to pack everything that they wanted into this controller make it smaller or up closer to the phone itself but yeah i mean as you can see there is a lot of overhang but other than that it's not a bad bluetooth controller now if you're not into bluetooth i would highly recommend the razer kishi you can find those on sale all the time it uses a usb type-c connection so you don't have to worry about any kind of latency over bluetooth or 2.4 gigahertz but in the end i do think this is a solid bluetooth controller if you're looking for a telescopic controller for your android device we have a lot of different functionality built in from that mapper setup to just running in native android mode so it'll work with cloud streaming or games that natively support controllers straight from google play i just kind of wish that the design was a little more streamlined or a little closer to the center itself but yeah that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about this or picking one up i will leave a few links in the description the price on this on amazon is usually around 60 but i was able to pick this up for 53 shipped to the door definitely keep an eye out for listings with a coupon attached because usually you get like five ten or even fifteen dollars off it just really depends on when you're gonna pick one of these up and if you're not into bluetooth controllers like i mentioned i would recommend the razer kishi i'll also leave a link down below those go for 99 but they're always on sale for around 60. so keep an eye out for that also but that's gonna wrap it up for this one if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on guys cta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a pretty interesting little android controller and actually this also works for ios but in this video we're just going to be testing it with android at some point this was up on either any gogo or kickstarter but this recently popped up on my amazon feed and i figured i'd go ahead and pick it up this is known as the shacks s5b and inside of the box we're going to get a controller with a case we also get our usb type-c charging cable user manual and an alternate d-pad so yeah this does look pretty interesting it's a telescopic bluetooth controller for android or ios and at first glance you wouldn't notice that it's a telescopic controller until you pull it apart i'm going to tell you right now the pictures that i've seen don't look great with your phone inserted in the middle but i can actually overlook that if it's a good controller for android and i'll show you what i'm talking about here i would have loved for these controllers to be a little closer to the phone itself but it works and it does hold these larger phones this is the red magic 6r and they have an application that allows you to map this controller to games that don't use controllers in the first place which is a big plus as for the layout i mean it's a basic layout here we have dual analog sticks d-pad abxy we also have start select a back button for android home function and power taking a look at the top we have two shoulder buttons and two trigger buttons these trigger buttons do look a little odd they do have a lot of throw to them but that's because they're analog triggers which means in certain games that support it like most racing games if you press it just a little bit you're gonna give it a little bit of gas or a little bit of break depending on which button you press and a lot of these bluetooth android controllers don't support this basically they're on or off but we have a full 100 range with both of these triggers here over on the right hand side we do have a selector switch from android windows ios and the very last one is the mapper function which will work with the shacks app and we're going to take a look at that in a second what this does is allow the controller to work with games that don't natively support controllers like ginge and impact down here we have our bluetooth pairing button and this has five functional leds the very first one is going to be our battery indicator and the last four change depending on which mode we're in be it android windows ios or even the mapper setting and like we saw with the unboxing we have two different d-pad covers here getting this paired up to your android device is pretty easy we're gonna go with android mode which will work with games that natively support android so we'll power it up press the pairing button on the bottom here two blue leds will start rapidly flashing and we can move over to the phone now just make sure you're in your bluetooth settings it should show right up give it a second here to scan for these devices there it is we'll just go ahead and pair it and i'm on android 11 so this might look a little different from older versions of android but there we have it we're now in android mode and this will work with emulators and games that support controllers right out of the box we don't have to do any setup it's basically working in x input mode like an xbox controller would connected to your phone now one thing that they offer for free from google play is the shacks app and this comes in really handy you can update the firmware which i would highly recommend doing as soon as you start this up you will need to have the controller plugged into power to update the firmware but we also have this gamepad tester and i can show you here that we have those analog triggers so everything else is just going to be on or off but when we move up here to the triggers you can see that we have analog input zero to a hundred percent both of these here and this comes in really handy for racing games and taking a look at the analog stick input it's actually pretty good we have slight movement you can see that it's not just on or off this is a true analog stick and some of the cheaper controllers that you'll find on amazon are basically on or off i mean there's not much throw there and a lot of them have a huge dead zone but this is doing way better than i thought it would so the first thing i wanted to do was test a couple games that natively support controllers in android there was no setup whatsoever i needed to do with this all i did was pair it up in android mode and it's working with minecraft and if you're not sure which games natively support controllers inside of the shacks app they do have a link to their website they have a full list of games next up we have the new next up we have the recently ported version of bikini bottom for android and this does support controllers as you can see so with games like asphalt 9 real racing 3 gta san andreas bully there are a ton of games that do natively support controllers and this will work right out of the box with no setup whatsoever last thing i wanted to test here in android mode was the d-pad so i've gotten to a little bit of emulation here this is marvel vs capcom 2 running in the redream emulator and i wanted to test out this d-pad i seem to be missing a few here and there i could get used to it but as you can hear it's got a little bit of a clicky sound to it and it's very oddly shaped i've actually never messed around with the controller with a d-pad shape like this so i think my best solution would be use the other d-pad adapter i've actually become a big fan of these dished adapters and with something like this it does make it a lot easier to use so we've got regular old android mode covered as long as the game supports a controller it'll work with it but if you want to use this with games that don't natively support controllers you can pair it up in a much different way just move the selector on the side of the controller to the gear icon and repair it it'll be in mapper mode and now from the game shacks app it'll detect it and from here we can use their pre-made profiles or we can map it ourselves so i'm going to go ahead and add a game and it'll be gentian impact i can't wait till it really adds controller support for android but you can start it just like it sits with their pre-made profile or we can go into edit mode and from here this is going to allow us to totally customize the inputs so what this is doing is taking the input from the controller and turning it into a touch input on screen and it's very basic i mean it's super simple to do you can drag these around to wherever you need them hit save and you're ready to go but i find that the pre-made profiles actually work really well and yeah i mean we have slight movement here you can go full speed with it same thing with the camera analog sticks work great there's no analog triggers in this game i mean there's really nothing you could use them for but the way they've set this up is actually really nice and it's working really well with these touch inputs now the one thing i will say about their pre-made profile when you're trying to use a bow character it's a bit awkward because i'm using that right analog stick to aim and i'm holding b so i might add the fire button to the left shoulder but it's totally customizable so you can kind of pick and choose how you want to use this there's a few more settings that i wanted to show you inside of the shacks app this will work in android mode or mapper mode from here we can change this function button up and right off the bat it's set to mouse mode so if i press the function button on the controller it'll turn this into a mouse and the left analog stick will control the cursor we could also set the function button up to turn on turbo in case you need that for some game and it does come in handy for older emulators if you do end up getting one of these controllers i highly recommend updating the firmware as soon as you get it but from here we can actually set it up to sleep after 60 minutes from 5 to 60 and we can change the led brightness so we'll turn it right back up we can reset the controller from here and calibrate the analog sticks so as soon as you get this like i mentioned update the firmware and then go into here and calibrate those analog sticks you're going to get a much better experience out of it so yeah i actually like the controller i mean the functionality of it works great but i hate the design i mean we just have so much overhang on each side here and i know it was kind of hard to pack everything that they wanted into this controller make it smaller or up closer to the phone itself but yeah i mean as you can see there is a lot of overhang but other than that it's not a bad bluetooth controller now if you're not into bluetooth i would highly recommend the razer kishi you can find those on sale all the time it uses a usb type-c connection so you don't have to worry about any kind of latency over bluetooth or 2.4 gigahertz but in the end i do think this is a solid bluetooth controller if you're looking for a telescopic controller for your android device we have a lot of different functionality built in from that mapper setup to just running in native android mode so it'll work with cloud streaming or games that natively support controllers straight from google play i just kind of wish that the design was a little more streamlined or a little closer to the center itself but yeah that's going to wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about this or picking one up i will leave a few links in the description the price on this on amazon is usually around 60 but i was able to pick this up for 53 shipped to the door definitely keep an eye out for listings with a coupon attached because usually you get like five ten or even fifteen dollars off it just really depends on when you're gonna pick one of these up and if you're not into bluetooth controllers like i mentioned i would recommend the razer kishi i'll also leave a link down below those go for 99 but they're always on sale for around 60. so keep an eye out for that also but that's gonna wrap it up for this one if you have any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching you\n"