/vr/ - Retro Games

it’s there when you need it

Based and soulful. You know games when strayed from the path of God when the select button no longer selected things like in the NES days.

start stops games
select brings up menu

based and soulful

It's useful. I played the PCE port of Street Fighter II the other day on my two-button controller and had what was probably my most amusing select button experience to date.
>>8549281
Exactly.

>>8549251
The unsung hero of the video game world. People can look down it all they want, but I remember the first time I saw an N64 controller, my first thought wasn't "How the heck am I supposed to hold this thing with my little kid hands?" it was "Where's the select button?" Getting rid of it costed Nintendo dearly. It's no coincidence that they wouldn't experience success again until the Wii, where the select button made its triumphant return.

>>8549404
This. You know what that sad, lonesome red start button looks like on the N64 controller? A clown nose. Nintendo clowned around with us select fans, and they paid the price dearly.

Calling a timeout late in the 4th quarter after dropping a 38-yard dime to set up a HB direct snap that gets me to the pylon. = S O V L

>>8549251
it's that one extra handy menu button.

>>8549251
The map/inventory button

>>8549251
A button I can't live without.

>>8549468
>>8549573
The inventory button is either start or triangle, you fools. Select is more akin to a minor mechanic change button, like this example >>8549304

>>8549414
Not nearly as bad as the GameCube controller’s Start/Pause button. Make up your fucking mind, start or pause. Pick one label.

>>8549251
"Start and Select" has such a nice ring to it. It's a shame it's getting phased out in modern consoles for names like "Plus and Minus" or "Home and Share"

>>8549613
Home button... home.

>>8549613
I don’t mind + or - but Home, Share, Option, Touchpad, Menu, and whatever other fuckery is bullshit

>>8549251
Necessary for plunking in coins when emulating

>>8549613
I'm fine with home or options but share is the absolute worst.

>>8549613
Honestly plus and minus are the only ones I don't like because they're just pointless abstractions for the concept of a menu button, when you could just call them menu buttons.

Also I'll never get the people who don't want controllers to have home menu or screenshot buttons, that's fucking stupid.

Wizards and Warriors treats the select button as a third button for special attacks, but it's kinda awkward to use.

>>8549824
Plus and Minus simulate the L and R buttons on the Wiimote at least, they turn pages forward and back on the main menu if no other peripheral is plugged in. There's also a separate button for the menu button.

>>8549251
As useful as a gun.
Best to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

>>8549857
Amen.

>>8549251
It never fucking selects anything does it

>>8549882
it does on the title screen menus in old nes games. I think it was intended to switch between game modes

>>8549251
When Pause, Select and Triangle bring up 3 different types of menus, you know your game is 200% based.

>>8549848
That is weird. If they went with start instead of select for that it probably would've felt pretty natural but I can understand why they didn't

>>8549965
there are a few NES games that use select for pause and start for something else, probably for that reason. somehow I can't name a single one atm, but I'm sure I'm not lying about this.

Suicide button for Lolo...it's great.

>>8549251
Most of the time it's just a quick "option" button to get into settings

>>8549414
>>8549404
You guys are pussies. There will never be another Start button as satisfying as the N64's

i think in general for the functions they serve in most games their names should be swapped

>>8549813
Fpbp.

>>8549301
>pressing START to STOP a game
Brainworms.

>>8549990
Barunba for PC Engine uses B and Start to rotate the direction your gun is facing in, so Select pauses/brings up a menu.

>>8549251
Good and traditional. Should never be phased out.

>>8549808
Zeppo...

>>8549613
>Press the instant replay button.

>>8549857
Like a plan for climate change?

>>8550965
>That arch of buttons on the back is upside-down.
Hah

>>8549251
The Chad to start's virgin... much alike the yin and yang.

>>8550506
>there will never be another Start button as satisfying as the N64's
Of course it was satifying to press, the games were so shit you'd rather pause them than play them.

>>8550712
Press it again and it starts the game.

>>8550712
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

>>8550535
That's the 16th post you dumbass