Damn, that looks fantastic. If only it had volume keys or a dial then it’d be perfect.
The Genesis/MD 3-button pad either has the greatest or worst d-pad of all time depending on whether the button letters are coloured or left black and nobody talks about this
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I think there are also sub models of black button pads. I dont know if you can judge them by feel now due to age though
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years ago I spent quite a few days opening up all of my Sega controllers and cleaning/reconditioning them, and the amount of different revisions for the D-pad mechanism in those 3-button pads was probably the most fascinating part. IIRC there were at least three, the most baffling being a design where the top of the D-pad (the part your thumb presses) mounts to a shaft that goes through a hole in the PCB inside to a lower disc that presses up on a membrane and copper contacts on the bottom of the PCB.
Anyway, 6-button pad ride or die.
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I don’t want to gush too much bc i’ve had it for two days but i got the cheapest tourbox on sale and it’s super exciting. I don’t do any of the things it’s marketed for, i just read journal articles and write markdown in sublime. The 'box replaces the trackpad in sublime and the keyboard in browser. I mapped the dial to ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab in safari and feel so powerful
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Oh hell yeah, the Tourbox is such a nice device! I use mine to do ancillary stuff on PC like granular controls on youtube videos, flipping through images in my image viewer, video editing, but mainly as a scroll wheel for everything. I got the model that lets me use it on iPad and Android though, and there it’s my main shortcut device for drawing and it basically replaces what I’d use a keyboard for.
Incredible device and its nice software makes it much more worthwhile than just a generic keyboard/wheel device thing
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It sucks because my giant bear paws love the size of the three button, but yeah. It’s got problems.
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should probably say something now that New Steam Controller is real
mostly it’s looking at this and hootin’ and hollerin’
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damn thats a significant battery for a controller.
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I wish split controllers would just become the default.
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the back just come off and the battery there and the controller is whole
the idea of doing 4-8 screws and the battery is right there is utopia after having been inside a DS3
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Seems better than the Playstation Access Controller in terms of modularity
It’s not much more expensive either and it comes with a Brook adapter, though you need to buy the additional parts. Basically a third party XAC for PS5
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The Switch Pro Controller is like this too. Unfortunately the same absolutely cannot be said about the Switch 2 Pro Controller.
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I don’t play flight sims but
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This thing has been in the back of my mind ever since so I ended up pulling it out to remember just how what it is.
I want to know how this revision came about. I want to know how this roundabout solution came to be. Did this thing crawl so the Saturn D-pad could sprint? I can’t stop thinking about it.
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On the old SB/internet this would have been front paged and made the rounds
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i wonder if this is to get around a patent
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Patent Harriers
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Sega did something and then a lawyer looked at it and went “hey you know Nintendo has dibs on that”
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