No, left amd right hand are switched (the controller rotated upsidedown) so that I can more easily tongue that little stick of joy.
i mean
Submitted 6 hours ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
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Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 6 minutes ago
Toes@ani.social 43 minutes ago
Did any of you change your controls to use the dpad for navigation in 007 golden eye? My friends called me a psycho for it.
dvlsg@lemmy.world 22 minutes ago
No, but I did use the yellow buttons for movement and the joystick for aiming. I guess that’s fairly similar.
pjwestin@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It was designed at a transition point between joysticks and the D-pad. Your right hand goes on the right prong for the A, B, and C buttons. Your left hand should be on the center prong when using a game designed for the joystick, or on the left prong when using a game designed for the D-pad. It’s not the most elegant design, but it’s really really not that hard to figure out.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 5 minutes ago
Or you’re like me and you put your hand on the left pron and stretch your thumb onto the joystick anyway. Middle prong be damned.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It’s honestly baffling people still riff on this. Anyone that’s held the controller for 2 seconds understands it.
tempest@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
You’re right it’s just the system had very few games where the d pad was the obvious primary control device.
What everyone here is really missing is the ahead of its time Golden eye 2 controller two stick setup. They knew where things were going the controller was just a little too soon.
hOrni@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Still beats flying
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
no wonder i was so bad at south park 64
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
The left hand goes on the left or the middle depending on the game.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 hours ago
The designer of the controller had 3 arms and always wondered why people didn’t like the design.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Better have a long tongue to reach the “Z” button with.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Regular length tongue is fine. It’s just not inserted all the way in the picture.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Understood. My experience deepthroating N64 controllers is …uh… limited.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Yoshis tongue was based on the lead designers
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 hours ago
Still a better time than whatever nightmare gaming is nowadays.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 hours ago
I still don’t get how they ever approved this design.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 49 minutes ago
It’s better than the current factor for switching between d-pad and joystick exclusive games.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 hours ago
It was the early days of 3d gaming consoles. And as nobody knew how control schemes will develop they created this controller with three different kinds of input schemes:
- Left on left/ right on right for traditional plattformers
- Left on middle / right on right for 3d games that require that analog stick
- Left on left / right on middle … yeah I don’t know either.
red_tomato@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Is there any game that utilized the d pad though? The d pad and the L button must have gone down in history as the most useless buttons ever put on a controller.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Gotta get good enough to throat it down then tongue the clit
tpihkal@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Worst controller design of all time.
Denjin@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
Objectively false, and it’s not even close
pjwestin@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The worst has to go to the Phillips CDI. In fairness, this was designed primarily as a remote control, and there was a much better dedicated gaming controller available, but they believed this layout would be adequate for gaming.
aeiou@piefed.social 2 hours ago
The Amiga CD one does not look that bad?
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
I had a cheat code for some game where I definitely had to use my mouth or face to move the analog stick.
bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I had to use this technique for Shadows of the Empire. I want to say it was the one that let you change between the Outrider, X-Wing, and Tie Fighter.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 hours ago
You might be right, it might have been that game. You had to hold it like halfway to the left (or maybe my controller was just old).
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Wtf is that controller? Some kind of new-fangled wireless abomination? That’s not original hardware. And, since it is new, why did they put no effort into fixing the joystick? You’re just going to get a floppy dick stick in a few years with it anyway.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
mouthanussmuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
I’ve just been stabilizing it in my bellybutton. I need to work on my flexibility.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 36 minutes ago
jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Maybe this controller was meant for girls.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 minutes ago
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