/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.6012903]

Does anyone else remember N64 games that detected the color of your attached controller? I vividly remember at least one game where this was a feature and I thought it was common knowledge, but I'm having a hell of a time finding it documented anywhere. It seems there's just no information anywhere about it. I only vaguely remember that it was a hockey game that I actually saw it work with my own eyes, but I'm sure I saw it.

[Anonymous No.6012905]

fucking sage and kill yourself

[Anonymous No.6012907]

>>6012905
Rude

[Anonymous No.6012908]

>>6012903
I don't think that has ever been the case, you might be misremebering how many games and manuals would use the various colors for representing the controller such as Banjo-Tooie, DK64, and so on. I do know that Nintendo Switch actually does detect the colors of your controller (even the button colors) but outside the system menus only Pokemon Sword/Shield and Labo actually reflect this in-game.

[Anonymous No.6012912]

>>6012908
http://www.winternet.com/~mr_n64/reviews/n64/wg64/wg64exp.html

Found this ancient website where this guy mentions it too. I think it was just such an obscure fact that few people knew it existed

[Anonymous No.6012989]

>>6012903
>Does anyone else remember my delusion?
>Where I vividly remember something that I only vaguely remember?
Aside from the voices in your head? No.

[Anonymous No.6012995]

>In the early N64 days, it was rumored that several 4-player games would take advantage of the multiple colored controllers by including a feature that would recognize a player’s controller color and represent this in the game. For example, somebody playing with a red controller would have his character in the game highlighted in red. This feature, first rumored to be in Midway’s Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey, never truly materialized.

[Anonymous No.6013016]

>>6012903
Seems reasonable considering the Switch can tell which Joycon you're using. Not sure if something like that is actually coded into the controllers though. Would be interested in seeing if there's any truth to it.

[Anonymous No.6013026]

>>6012903
If the controller actually has some form of identifier for which colour the controller is, then sure, that'd work.

But they don't.

[Anonymous No.6013029]

>>6013016
Seems reasonable they'd do that 25 years ago? No. It doesn't. At all. I mean hell if they were going to do that why not just have the NES suck your dick and have built in Twitch functionality?

Some of the most basic features today weren't even dreamed up a quarter century ago.

[Anonymous No.6013737]

>>6012995
Holy shit, dude
Add this to Mandela effect because it was real in my universe

[Anonymous No.6013742]

>>6013029
>Some of the most basic features today weren't even dreamed up a quarter century ago.
This isn't sophisticated technology, it would be a simple byte or less indicating the controller's color. There was already parallel data going on to activate the rumble pak or memory pak, it would not have been remotely difficult for one of those micro controllers to have had a color designation on board, and clearly the idea was there as it was rumored to at least be a planned feature at some point

[Anonymous No.6013771]

>>6013737
You are a fucking retard. If it were true you would have this feature show up in emulators.

[Anonymous No.6013798]

>>6013029
>why not just have the NES suck your dick
I'm sure someone has made a custom NES with a build-in ona-hole.

[Anonymous No.6013843]

In Japan, they were called Controller Bros.

[Anonymous No.6013969]

Theres a bug in DK64.
if you are using a banana colored controller when you unlock Lanky kong, you get HIV IRL

[Anonymous No.6013986]

OP I know what game you're talking about.
In Aerogauge there's an N64 controller racer you can unlock, and the color of controller you use determines the color of the ship. The feature is broken in emulators though, which is why you always see it as its default grey on youtube. There's little to no documentation on this neat feature anywhere, probably due to how few people actually liked Aerogauge.

[Anonymous No.6013991]

A lot of this thread belongs on /r/nothingeverhappens

[Anonymous No.6014450]

>>6013771
>doesn't know what the Mandela Effect is
>calls others retard
teh ironing

[Anonymous No.6014901]

>>6013969
Always wondered how that happened to me, good to know

[Anonymous No.6014905]

>>6013986
I'll give it a try in a few hours and report back with my findings. The game seems to have an easy unlock all cheat. I'm assuming it'll work on Everdrive, no reason it wouldn't.

[Anonymous No.6015003]

I think it was in the NTSC-J version of the going into games machine

[Anonymous No.6015024]

>>6013986
if this isn't just bullshit it doesn't work in emulators because no one has documented the command that tells the controller the return what color it is. If it's legit and there's a reasonable way to unlock it it would be easy enough to find te needed info. It might not even need to be unlocked. The game might just read the color at the beginning. Gonna wait for this to before confirmed legit before wasting any time on it though.

[Anonymous No.6015061]

>>6012903
I mean, this argument can be ended by someone posting the n64 controller circuit schematics, can't it?

[Anonymous No.6015064]

>>6013843
yep http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0TpUdUrXY&t=11m50s

[Anonymous No.6015092]

>>6013986
>>6014905
>>6015024
Hmm... Well, gave it a try. I have a solid blue controller, an atomic people, a grey, and a Tribute. Figured I'd try this with each of the different controllers inserted (except grey). This didn't change the default color. However, there are quite a few alternate colors you can select for the vehicle: red, green, blue, dark gray, and yellow. This is simply selected by pressing the R button before selecting the vehicle and it's standard in the game to have alternate colors like this.
I'm not totally 100% sure but I think we could call this one debunked. You'd think it would recognize my solid blue one if such a feature existed.

[Anonymous No.6015103]

>>6015092
You're quite gullible, but at least you took the time to check it out.

[Father Electronics Boutique No.6015108]

>>6014450
>>>/x/

[Father Electronics Boutique No.6015110]

>>6013986
10/10

>>6014450
>>>/x/

[Anonymous No.6015113]

>>6015103
Didn't take up much of my time so whatever.

[Anonymous No.6015247]

>>6014450
In my universe you were sucking my cock right now. Better get to it anon.

[Anonymous No.6015403]

only works during full moon

[Anonymous No.6015417]

best color

[Anonymous No.6015565]

>>6015061
No

>>6015092
You probably just haven't activated the color code on the controller. To do this you have to enter the konami code 9001 times with a transfer pak inserted with a crystal cart that has a shuckle holding a rare candy obtained from a berry as the first pokemon in your party.

[Anonymous No.6015806]

>>6012912
Except he says himself that it straight up didn't work.

[Anonymous No.6016746]

>>6015092
Are they all first party controllers?

>>6015806
Yes, but it proves the notion that it should have worked existed

[Anonymous No.6016765]

>>6016746
>Are they all first party controllers?
Please refer to >>6015103

[Anonymous No.6016860]

>>6013986
No way...

[Anonymous No.6017084]

>>6013969
Is that what you told your family?

[Anonymous No.6017103]

>>6016860

[Anonymous No.6017127]

>>6015103
Devices knowing what their hardware/firmware revision is not at all strange man.

[Anonymous No.6017418]

>>6013986
>>b-but detecting color is advanced alium tech
kek zoomers when will they learn

[Anonymous No.6017625]

>>6017127
Bad bait aside, that whole colour coding is bullshit and you know it. Don't torture retarded /vr/.

[Anonymous No.6018707]

>>6016746
>but it proves some kid was retarded once
And you proved some kid is retarded now

[Anonymous No.6018713]

>>6015092
>gave it a try
Stupid fuck.

[Anonymous No.6019893]

>>6018713
Imagine living your life as such a cuck you're afraid to spend 30 seconds to learn something on your own

[Anonymous No.6019914]

>>6012903
>he tries to come up with stupid urban legends to immortalize himself with /vr/
sage and kill self

[Anonymous No.6019917]

>>6019914
Except
>>6012912
>>6012995

[Anonymous No.6019934]

>>6013029
>>6013742
It wasnt that easy, youd have to have a special board for EVERY COLORED CONTROLLER. It would make life in those chinese factories hard when you couldnt use the thousands of identical controller chips for any controller

[Anonymous No.6020186]

>>6019934
Just like how for avoiding shitposts by ignorant zoomers you'd have to have a special board with 18+ rules and enforce it for EVERY SINGLE POST. Zoom away back to facebook little zoomer.