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Lil' Lavery

07-09-2016 22:05

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Why would anyone WANT to use a Gamecube or N64 controller? Those are two of the worst designed controllers in the history of gaming.

troy_dietz

07-09-2016 23:11

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery (Post 1605450)

Why would anyone WANT to use a Gamecube or N64 controller? Those are two of the worst designed controllers in the history of gaming.

The GameCube controller is widely considered to be one of the best controllers ever made. While it looks pretty weird, it's extremely comfortable (as long as your hands are reasonably human sized), the analogue sticks have nearly no deadband, and the triggers are analogue, but provide still tactile feedback when fully depressed. It also helps that one of the most competitively played videogames (SSB Brawl) happens to be a GameCube Game.

The N64 controller can go sit in a cardboard box for another 15 years.

dirtbikerxz

07-09-2016 23:14

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I think the main reason people (robotics "nerds") would want to use the game cube controller (I could be completely wrong here), is simply to say that they are using a game cube controller or n64 controller. Just to have that "novelty"

niklas674

07-09-2016 23:17

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Originally Posted by dirtbikerxz (Post 1605485)

If you want a true novelty controller, you must use a guitar hero guitar to control the robot...

Cothron Theiss

08-09-2016 00:20

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Originally Posted by Jay O'Donnell (Post 1604837)

But I've also seen ...snip... a guitar hero guitar.

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Originally Posted by niklas674 (Post 1605487)

snip... a guitar hero guitar to control the robot...

Who did this, and where can I thank them? I would have loved to have seen this.

niklas674

08-09-2016 00:57

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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss (Post 1605510)

Who did this, and where can I thank them? I would have loved to have seen this.

We had one in 2014 but it was never used during a comp. My apologies as I have no pictures or video of it.

troy_dietz

08-09-2016 01:27

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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss (Post 1605510)

Who did this, and where can I thank them? I would have loved to have seen this.

Some teams mentioned using the guitar hero controllers here: https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=97194

adciv

08-09-2016 05:57

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Originally Posted by dirtbikerxz (Post 1605485)

That would be if they used an NES or Atari Controller...which I must now do.

DaveL

08-09-2016 08:17

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I did some usability testing on Microsoft's Sidewinder Strategic Commander, gaming device.
We used Crazy taxi as the testing game and the sound track was so addicting.

We tweaked the side vs rotational forces. It was a blast. Would like to get my hands on one and use it to control a robot. It has forward, backward, right and left twist, plus a bunch of function buttons. The only downside compared to the current crop of game controllers is that its designed to sit on a table.

Let me know if you have used this device.

http://netego.dk/wp-content/strategiccommander.jpg
https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-E06.../dp/B00005U21V

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