Take a look at the 6 button PC Engine pad. You'd love it.Yossarian wrote:Also, just coming back to Retro's suggestion for using Roman numerals for a moment, I can't see that ever being a goer for the simple reason that Roman numerals are most commonly associated with traditional clock designs rather than cutting edge tech.
Same. Problem arises with the WiiU and Switch where the face buttons are all black and white.JonB wrote:. From SNES onwards though I've pretty much just gone by colour, so it's not been an issue.
legaldinho wrote:Jesus Christ, this thread
Liveinadive wrote:Same. Problem arises with the WiiU and Switch where the face buttons are all black and white.JonB wrote:. From SNES onwards though I've pretty much just gone by colour, so it's not been an issue.
Which is definitely Nintendo's fault.
acemuzzy wrote:Indeed. It feels like the mid-90s playground, with 10p the swat.legaldinho wrote:Jesus Christ, this thread
Yossarian wrote:Liveinadive wrote:Same. Problem arises with the WiiU and Switch where the face buttons are all black and white.JonB wrote:. From SNES onwards though I've pretty much just gone by colour, so it's not been an issue.
Which is definitely Nintendo's fault.
Xbox and DC have the same buttons in the same layout but in different colours. I go with letters.
ChopperByrne wrote:King of third party controllers has to be ASCII.
That was better than the original PS1 pad, especially for Vs Fighters.
Liveinadive wrote:Never had a DC cos it was shit.
Yossarian wrote:It was not hit. More's the pity.
NES mini shipments continued into the early part of this year, but its production run could not be extended further - as SNES mini was slated for production instead.
stonechalice wrote:Day fucking one if this is a thing.
Yossarian wrote:I don't really care about that, my point is that if you're going to use letters, using them backwards is a bizarre choice. This isn't about Microsoft's choice beyond them being an example of a company not making this bizarre choice, as has been noted in here, they copied the layout from the Dreamcast anyway, which is where I first used it.mistercrayon wrote:I think it's bizarre that you have to keep calling it retarded. Such an ugly word for an arbitrary choice. I mean you sit there defending microsofts abxy, as if it's some more rational thing, when there's no good reason for the buttons to be x and y. Why not abyz? Abcd? Ab12.
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