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Q: What do you want from your Controller?

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    #32
    Vegeta
    Registered Users Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    k8bcly wrote: »
    i have never been more confused in my life!!!
    im doing this project too and sorry for sounding like a retard but wat is a d-pad??:confused:
    i very rarely play games and when i do im realy bad at them!!!
    im screwed in this project!!!:(

    dpad.jpg

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-pad

    It's the cross shaped bit on a games controller. Usually operated by the left thumb and controls the movement of on screen characters.


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    #33
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    k8bcly wrote: »
    i have never been more confused in my life!!!
    im doing this project too and sorry for sounding like a retard but wat is a d-pad??:confused:
    i very rarely play games and when i do im realy bad at them!!!
    im screwed in this project!!!:(

    lol the Dpad is the circle part of a 360 controller on the left side below the analog stick.

    It can be pressed in 4 directions and diagonally.

    Here's a pic with an arrow pointing at it:

    http://media.photobucket.com/image/360%20d%20pad/AgentBBJ/microsoft-xbox-360-wireless-control.jpg


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    #34
    thewheel2.0
    Registered Users Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭thewheel2.0


    D-pad is short for directional pad.

    http://www.everyjoe.com/files/608/2008/05/dpad.jpg

    Important link


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    #35
    k8bcly
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭k8bcly


    tanxx
    at least that makes sense :D:D


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    #36
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    k8bcly wrote: »
    tanxx
    at least that makes sense :D:D

    lol yeah most things do in gaming to be fair. They rarely name thing the obfusucation device :P

    Just ask if you have any other questions. I'm subbed to this thread (like all threads I post on) so I'll get email updates and others will be sure to answer too in the unlikely event that I don't know something or it looks like I encrypted my post :pac:

    Oh and does this include handheld console controls? Reread the original post and can't see if it is just home console controllers or whether the DS and PSP are included.


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    #37
    smooch71
    Registered Users Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭smooch71


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    #38
    Vegeta
    Registered Users Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    Smooch that's a horrible thing, the analog sticks on the PS controllers have always been an after thought and are in a very awkward position for my hands.

    I also find them too free moving and sloppy, if ya get me.

    Would love 2 Game Cube sticks in the 360 controller position


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    #39
    smooch71
    Registered Users Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭smooch71


    Vegeta wrote: »
    Smooch that's a horrible thing, the analog sticks on the PS controllers have always been an after thought and are in a very awkward position for my hands.

    I also find them too free moving and sloppy, if ya get me.

    Would love 2 Game Cube sticks in the 360 controller position

    Hey, I thought it was pretty cool!

    I hear ya on the Gamecube sticks though.


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    #40
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    The 360 controller is great and a big improvement on the first Xbox controller. I would say the best controllers outside this generation were the Gamecube and The Dreamcast. Both of them fit like a glove. The GC even to this day, if I hold it it's just damn comfortable.


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    #41
    seraphimvc
    Registered Users Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭seraphimvc


    totally GC,or n64's controller :D the first time i have this in mind:

    'this pad is built for me hands!!!'

    pure awesomeness Nintendo.

    p/s:btw,DS's pad s*cks :(buttons too small!!


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    #42
    Vegeta
    Registered Users Posts: 11,393 ✭✭✭✭Vegeta


    smooch71 wrote: »
    Hey, I thought it was pretty cool!

    I hear ya on the Gamecube sticks though.

    Don't get me wrong I prefer the face buttons on the PS controllers and the d-pad. I just don't like the orientation of the sticks and how they feel.
    Shryke wrote: »
    The 360 controller is great and a big improvement on the first Xbox controller. I would say the best controllers outside this generation were the Gamecube and The Dreamcast. Both of them fit like a glove. The GC even to this day, if I hold it it's just damn comfortable.

    Yeah the Gamecube controller has my favourite stick and is my favourite to hold. Dreamcast was good too (the 360 controller looks like a direct descendant) but the d-pad blistered the bejaysus out of my thumb. The left hand edge is quite raised from the curved surface of the controller and in something frantic like a fighting game it can be rough.

    I am with seraphimvc 100% on the DS. Very innovative but have you tried playing one of them without the luxury of being able to leave the DS itself down on something. As I am right handed I use the stylus in my right hand and hold the DS in my left.
    There's actually not that much room to grip it because the touchpad screen takes up a lot of the space. I generally get a tiredness/pain/cramp in my left hand if I cant leave the DS on my lap or the table.
    Maybe its better for small handed Japanese folk and kids but I would work on making it more ergonomic for this project


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