The Power Glove.™ You plug it in like any joystick. But the similarity stops there. Because now you don’t just guide the action. You’re in the action.
As soon as you put on the Power Glove, its 3-D sensors track the position of your hand in space. You enter the program code. Calibrate the glove. Center it. And feel the mechanical moves of a joystick give way to free-flowing, instant response. You actually knock out Mike Tyson. Grab the steering wheel of Rad Racer.® Bank and fire your P-38 in 1943™ The Battle of Midway. All simply by moving your hand.
The Power Glove has a unique programmable keypad that gives the best NES™ players moves they’ve never had before—and never will have with a joystick. Twist your write for immediate head butt in Double Dragon. Bend a finger for “Thrash Mode”—your character turns and shoots in all possible directions. Bend another for “One-Shot Turnaround”: you automatically change direction and fire faster than you ever could with a joystick.
With new moves at your disposal, it makes your joystick games especially vertical scroll games, new. Different. More exciting.
Got an Xbox controller for my PC. Hope it will last longer than my last three controllers. Will microsoft controller be more durable than logitech or 8bitdo or the switch controller that starts drifting almost immediately. It’s pink at least!
Speaking of modding DS4s, I recently modded mine to have USB C because the old Mini USB port or whatever stopped charging.
This was the kit I used on my gen 1 DS4: Amazon.com only $13.
Comes with everything I needed including a little file and blade for chiseling part of the back shell to make room for the USB C port. It took a lot longer to chisel the space out than I expected, maybe like an hour, but I was going really slowly so I wouldn’t permanently ruin the back plate. In the end, it worked out perfectly and now I can charge and use it with all my USB C cables.
The other DS4 I had was a newer model, so I could use this replacement back plate that also included extra back buttons: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCBW7NSY
Both of them required replacing ribbon cables, but this one also required tiny cable management and stuffing it all into the shell to fit. In the process, I lost the teeny tiny springs in the L2/R2s for both controllers, but I don’t really use the analog function of the controllers anyway so it wasn’t a big loss. It is annoying though that in controller testing, they both register as like a 0.256 input even without being pressed down, and some games use that slight input as a confirm. My test game and the main reason why I wanted to mod my Dualshock 4, Monster Hunter Rise, uses the R2 to accept and leave for a quest, which that slight input automatically triggers; it’s pretty annoying.
Anyway, a bag of those tiny springs is a few bucks so I got one but I haven’t felt the need to replace them yet. They’re such a pain to fit in there properly too so I’m delaying it as much as possible. Don’t trust any video saying how to place the spring in there, they’re liars and the springs will fly out and disappear forever
You know, I bought one of the DS4 clicky kits, and it arrived today. I now realize, after reading the whole webpage like someone who is smart would have done before, that it does not fit the first-gen controllers.
