/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1105995
Done differently. If I remember correctly, the buttons on the 7800 stick each sends signals down two lines. Both send a signal to the 2600's button line, so you can play 2600 games with them. They also send signals down their own dedicated lines for individual detection.

Using a Genesis controller only the B button produces anything on the Atari (or anything that most games would typically look for.)

If you plugged the 7800 stick on a Genesis, it would do some odd things of its own. The only one I recall offhand was hitting both buttons simultaneously would fire the super weapon and pause the game. Hitting them individually wouldn't produce either result.

Not as bad, but I never cared much for this controller either. The joystick's feel was just, weird.

>video game controllers were so much simpler in the 80s
This has more buttons than the 360 controller