This:
I used this piece of shit to play Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon.
Come to think of it, those games and that controller deserve each other.
Oh, fuck that game with a cactus covered in smaller cacti. Unless you have unlimited Lurch bombs.
Oh, I know. I loved it as a kid. But, it was so brutally hard and could be unforgiving in some of those corridors where you had that.... Black orb gun that had the parabolic wave to it. Trying to hit those dumbass slimes was blatantly troubling trouble. And the constant fear of mistakenly walking over a weapon downgrade and going BACK to that weapon was real. The whip weapon, though. That was the shit. The bosses were pretty cool looking too! I don't think I ever beat it, though. I think I got to the final area and then wound up dying. I might have to toss it on my 3ds and play it again.
I genuinely love this controller and I bought the modern version of it recently. The only problem with the original version of this controller was the lack of shoulder buttons, which was solved by the modern version. I plan on playing the Spyro reignited trilogy using it to further add to the blasphemy (a PS1 game trilogy with an original Xbox controller)
I think it would be impossible to control with.This custom Xbox controller I saw on etsy a while back:
Neat to look at, but looks like it would be uncomfortable to hold.
I raise you a Resi 4 chainsaw. There were two of these even, one for the Gamecube version another for the PS2 version.This custom Xbox controller I saw on etsy a while back:
Neat to look at, but looks like it would be uncomfortable to hold.
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this piece of shit yet.
TBF, there are some pretty amazing hacks you can do with these things and they do plug right into a serial port.
Edit to add: the history of the powerglove is pretty intriguing stuff sometimes. It's based on a high end system called a DataGlove, which at the time sold for ~$3,000. The means by which they scaled that down to a consumer product is some clever shit. In the original DataGlove, photoreceptors in each fingertip measured light in a fiber optic cable being shone down from each knuckle. It would dim as the finger was bent farther down. In the power glove they use very low level electricity run through a conductive inlay. Only 4 of the fingers measure movement and the pinky is a duplicate of the ring finger. It took real vision to make this thing happen, but it came on the market about 60 years too early (and in the wrong universe).
I've heard their steering wheels were consistently good as well, it was just their regular gamepad line up that was cheap garbage.
Dreamcast failed because the fucking cable went into the controller from the bottom. What mental patient thought that was a good idea?
One of my favorite controllers only for the fact that if you wrap your hands around it like I do, you end up giving two thumbs up. The d-pad was pretty sad and not good for playing fighting games with though, and the analog stick felt kind of weird. I love this controller a lot, but even I have to admit that it wasn't the best design.
I remember when that was being developed, or something like it. Wasn't it originally for disabled people who didn't have full range of motion with their fingers/hands?So this is a thing that exists
That first one looks like a pretty wicked flight stick. I'd use that.
That's this one or this one:
That overshell is designed to allow competitive players to access the right face buttons without moving their hands off the right analog stick. It's supposed to shorten travel distances for your fingers.
