Comment on New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 9 months agoIsn’t the N64 controllers using optical sensor and those are one of the worst controller ever existed?
The sensors on the N64 are basically the same kind you’d find in a mouse wheel. They work fine.
The crap part is the physical construction. There’s a lot of parts that wear down with use and cause the joystick to become loose due to the plastics wearing away.
N64’s issues came from the bushings wearing out, the sensors were still very good
Primarily the plastic bowl
Yup. If they’d just made the bowl out of something OTHER than ABS, they would have been good. Delrin, PTFE, even a thin layer of brass or broze, and those controllers wouldn’t have had anywhere near the amount of issues they’re known for having.
There are third-party manufacturers who sell replacement bowls and sticks, made from everything from POM to steel.
the reason the n64 sticks suck is down to the stick tension construction and not really the sensing mechanism. Pretty much the thumbstick was pressed against a plastic bowl that wore away eventually through use. it didn’t really have anything to do with the fact that it was an optical stick
CanofBeanz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
N64 does use optical sensors, the n64 stick is actually super precise and doesn’t suffer from drift. The n64 is a goofy controller but it is simply a great and accurate input device, and a lot of the games were really designed with that stick and notches in mind.
But it is made of all plastic and features plastic on plastic moving parts, without lubrication, so it suffers from wear of the plastic. Worn n64 sticks will actually be filled with plastic dust from the stick and gears literally sanding themselves down. The only problem with the controller is the premature wear of the stick.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s crazy to me that no company ever made a decent 3rd party N64 controller. The 3rd party ones were all as ridiculous as the defaults. Great console that I loved, but would have gotten a lot more out of with better controllers.
Sniper@lemmy.world 9 months ago
there was a hori n64 controller that looked like a normal double handle controller and it was really good, but it’s crazy expensive these days on ebay. I’ve also heard good things about the new brawl64.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 months ago
The Hori Pad Mini? I had never seen that before, leagues above anything I remember being available at the time.
Royal_Bitch_Pudding@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you’re willing to pay big bucks you can you can pay for replacement parts/module made with steel