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9528791 No.9528791 [Reply] [Original]

Post unconventional/bizarre controllers ITT

>> No.9528793

>>9528791
It just hit me after I posted this that they have the cable coming out of the bottom. Why not have it come out of the top for more usage range plus its where the fishing line would be on a real rod anyways. What the fuck?

>> No.9528840

>>9528793
>flick handle up
>your console falls to the ground
Would have boosted dreamcast sales....maybe...
if anyone would have actually wanted to buy another

>> No.9529076
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9529076

i still cant believe this happened. and yes i fell for it

>> No.9529080

>>9528791
>here's your controller, bro

>> No.9529091

>>9528791
Hard mode: play Soul Caliber using this

>> No.9529175

>>9529091
>Hard mode: play Soul Caliber using this

The Fishing Controller works as a tennis racket in Virtua Tennis 1 and 2.

>> No.9529197
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AlphaGrip AG-5
>>9529076
My god... so ahead of its time, and yet so completely absurd, especially for fighting games.

>> No.9529369

>>9529091
Sega Rally. The accelerator maps to the reel.

>> No.9529390

>>9528791
This shit doesn't even work with Big the Cat's story in Sonic Adventure. Seriously, they add a weird character focused around fishing in a platformer game, and also make a fishing pole controller available at launch for their brand new console, but they don't bother having the two work with each other.

What were they thinking?

>> No.9529527

>>9529076
shit like this is why sega went out of business

>> No.9529534

Ah, yes unconventional/bizarre controllers. A prime topic for the retro games board. It really is strange how unconventional/bizarre controllers suddenly stopped being made after the cutoff for retro games.

>> No.9529546
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>>9528791
This pinball machine has gun handle grips you can use instead of the flipper buttons, if you want. It's harder to nudge, but you get more points for combos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37498&v=YNZ9RXjWkm8

pinballmap.com

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>>9528793
The jerking of the controller breaks the dreamcast

>> No.9529616
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>>9528791
Obligatory

>> No.9529629
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>>9528791

>> No.9529776 [SPOILER] 
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>>9528791
What were they THINKING?

>> No.9529789

>>9529776
The were thinking people were smarter than they actually are

>> No.9530246

>>9529390
Sonic's story
>Swap to NES Power Pad (for Dreamcast) for running controls
Tails' story
>Unplug your power pad, swap in your flight simulator controller
Knuckles' story
>Rip out your flight controller, plug in a compass
Amy's story
>Smash your Dreamcast with a hammer
Big's story
>Buy a new Dreamcast, use the fishing rod controller
Gamma's story
>Light gun

This is the only way to truly, in the most immersive way possible, play Sonic Adventure, and if you don't, you're not a true Sonic fan. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

>> No.9530260
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>>9528791
I've beaten Crash Bandicoot 1 with mine for a nice challenge. No game overs, either. I assume with 2 and 3 with slide jumping it would be much harder.

>> No.9530292
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9530292

*blocks your path*

>> No.9530495

>>9530292
Damn. I should start playing that again.

>> No.9530518

>>9529776
It's true, absolutely terrible controller. Build quality is poor, too. Not much above 3rd party manufacturers.

>> No.9530581

>>9529546
>It's harder to nudge
What?

>> No.9531104

>>9529197
>make a controller into a keyboard and mouse
>put W, A, S, and D on the back so you have to remap every single key to make it useful for any game

>> No.9533207

>>9529534
I can not discern whether or not this is sarcasm. Forgive me, I have the autism.

>> No.9533376

>>9529091
It's called Soul Calibur, moron.

>> No.9533543

>>9533207
>I can not discern whether or not this is sarcasm. Forgive me, I have the autism.

Your sarcasm detector doesn't work because the post isn't sarcarm yet. It's like a plant that hasn't fully grown yet. We have to wait for for the response post to determine what anon means. He left it intentionally vague.

The post is designed to be flexible. Anon will watch the responses he gets then, depending on what is said, say he was being sarcastic. Or say he was being serious and that he genuinely doesn't know what hapoened to bizarre controllers.

>> No.9533556

>>9529776
Honestly one of my favorite controllers. Only shitty part is the plastic analog stick.
I wouldn't choose anything else for playing N64 games.

>> No.9533558

>>9529629
looks comfy

>> No.9533634

>>9529629
The fuck system is that for?

>> No.9533943

>>9530246
I know youre taking the piss but Big's story is unique in that it was pretty much just an ad for their fishing games which makes it surprising the controller didnt work. It has the exact same gameplay as Sega Bass Fishing but with less mechanics.

>> No.9534008

>>9533634
Xbox

>> No.9534016

>>9529629
Why does it have a bubble level?

>> No.9534429
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>>9529076
Holy shit I don’t know why this made me laugh so hard. I think I honestly would have fallen for it too. I was a fucking nut for peripherals when I was a kid. Got pic related thinking it was gonna lead to some insane new games. Turns out that wasn’t the case.

>> No.9534434

>>9530292
I want to play this game so badly. A full-fledged mech sim sounds too good to be true.

>> No.9534536
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Honestly I still think this thing looks cool as shit. I wish some company would make a modern version that actually worked. Although nowadays itd have a different problem of having to support too many games with too many inputs.

>> No.9534695

>>9529776
>uh lets do analog for the new 3D games we're making
>uhh lets also include a dpad for 2D games
Its actually quite comfortable when you hold it. I cant think of games that use both at the same time during gameplay.

>> No.9534735

>>9534434
it's pretty good

>> No.9534858
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>>9533634
It's a pretty cool programmable controller for og Xbox from Gamester, they did many weird controllers.

>> No.9534862
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Only the left part is movable

>> No.9534876
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>> No.9534953

>>9534536
Glove form factor seems like the obvious companion to VR glasses instead of those regular doughnut sticks. Sure, for gunplay you would need some sort of a trigger for it to feel natural but otherwise gloves seem like the way to go.

>> No.9535091

>>9534953
The problem is that people have different size hands requiring different size gloves.

>> No.9535114

>>9528793
>t. never actually gone fishing

>> No.9535126
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>>9528791
I ain't playin games on no dil-do

>> No.9535136
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>>9528791
Never tried pic related myself but the sheer size of it has always dumbfounded me.

>> No.9535302
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9535302

>>9528791
Heard Sega Bass Fishing was a much better game with this. Sadly never tried.
>>9533376
>SoulCalibur
FTFY
>>9529616
Is this real?

>> No.9535464
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>>9534434
a buddy in college had this set up in his dorm. 90" projector + surround sound and everything. the mech start-up sequence took over a minute iirc, you had to hit different buttons and switches on the panel to get it going. the game was fun as fuck.
and if you couldn't eject in time from your dying mech the game legit wiped your save lol

>> No.9535490
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>>9534429
are you kidding! it heralded the dawn of a new age

>> No.9535858

>>9535126
BALLINNNN

>> No.9535862

>>9534016
Just for coolness, imitates a shell ejection port

>> No.9535989
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9535989

unforgettable.

>> No.9535997
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these old ridge racer controllers you had to rotate in the middle

>> No.9536003
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the prototype ps3 controller

>> No.9536430

>>9535997
Holy shit that's a cool controller. What a sick idea, and the implementation seemed to have been solid as well.

>> No.9536563

>>9529546

There’s one of these at the local ice rink near me. It was the first time I saw it and though it was odd to have those.

>> No.9536567

>>9536003
If Sony was actually fun they'd let someone like Hyperkin make a controller like this.

>> No.9536585

>>9534429
>>9535490
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but it truly did. These camera based games that work off of the player's body movement paved the way for VR. Without the eyetoy and whatever the gameboy camera was, we wouldn't have had the Wii.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=LC_KKxAuLQw
The Wii was gimmicky, but in 2010, this guy used the wii sensor bar, put it on his head and flipped it around to make this tech demo. I remember my jaw hitting the floor when I first saw it. That's when I knew that true VR games were going to be a reality. Today, I'm a simdad with a VR cockpit and games like iRacing and Il-2 are amazing. As the tech becomes cheaper and more readily available to the average consumer, VR gaming is going to explode.

>> No.9536798

>>9529076
The AI in Eternal Champions is slready brutal. I can't imagine someone beating the first fight using this.

>> No.9536926

>>9536585
lol i was being hyperbolic but i absolutely do not disagree with you
did you ever play Burnout on the 360? if a player had the camera while playing online, and you made him crash, the game would display a snapshot of the player's face the moment he crashes. was the funniest shit

>> No.9536927

>>9535114
This. Everyone who's ever gone fishing knows the line comes out of the bottom of the rod.

>> No.9536937

>>9534862
>there's actually a lotus controller to play all the billion british lotus games
I wonder if brits made an egg controller to play all the egg games they made?

>> No.9536953
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9536953

>>9528791
loved playing descent on this motherfucker

>> No.9537148
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I actually got to manhandle this one, wasn't half bad.

>> No.9537182

>>9533376
Thanks for the correction, anon. I was wondering why my Tobal No.1 disc wouldn't boot.

>> No.9538219

>>9535136
why would anyone make a miniature game gear

>> No.9539378

>>9530292
Genuinely wish there were more games for this. Mecha fans are autistic enough to mod or even make games that support it.

>> No.9539936
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9539936

Not quite retro yet but I have to mention this bad boy. I'd never heard of nor seen one of these until a local retro shop had one. Sold it to me for $3. It's one of the most amazingly cool controllers to hold in your hand. The little flaps on the sides work and this bastard...

>> No.9539940
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9539940

TRANSFORMS! The right handle twists like a motorcycle accelerator. I love this thing, but It's kinda too crazy to use.

>> No.9540995

>>9539936
>>9539940
this combo post made my day anon

>> No.9541515
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>costs $400 now

>> No.9542081
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Bump

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>>9541515
Forgot about that. I'll look up a RE4 let's play using that controller. I thought I was insane completing it with picrel.

>> No.9542643

>>9542591
I still can't believe I actually bought Link's Crossbow Training with this shit. I didn't buy any other game that used and I beat Link the very same day I bought it and never played again. I genuinely thought the Wii was going to have a resurgence of light gun games...

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>> No.9544549

>>9528791
Are there any controllers with 5 buttons?

>> No.9544571

Body harvest

>> No.9544581

>>9542643
Do waggle control on-rails games count? It had plenty to choose from on that front.
Resident Evil, HoTD, Sin & Punishment, hell even Dead Space was pretty good.

>> No.9544597

>>9534434
do NOT buy it anon
the Ai is useless when it comes to your needed allies for the later half of the game

>no continues
>run out of money = dead
>die in combat = dead
>dead = save file auto-deleted

its literally just an RNG fuckfest
could have been amazing but the game really does come up short

you will have basically ZERO room to store the controller (aka dust magnet) when not in use
it doesn't tear-down easily or return the box easily

it has fragile 90s pc-style ribbon cabling between the 3 parts

>> No.9544667

>>9535136
>Car battery sold separately

>> No.9546385
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There's a shit ton of these for different consoles

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>>9528791
How about the Dreamcast maracas? They even make the rattle noises without being plugged in.

>>9539936
>>9539940
You have convinced me, this is amazing!

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>>9544271

>> No.9547263

>>9530292
My friend has that and I really want to see if I can buy it off of him, since I'm not sure he has ever used it.

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>>9539936
>>9539940
It's like an updated version of the konix multisystem controller

>> No.9548430

>>9534876
Reminds me of the weird dildo chair that George Clooney made in Burn After Reading

>> No.9548552

>>9534695
Sin and Punishment does, but it released at the end of the console's life specifically trying to be the only game that does that

>> No.9548649

>>9548552
There were others also Pokemon Stadium 2 want you to change hands during a minigame. But only a single minigame.

>> No.9550464

>>9546385
what the hell even is this

>> No.9550617

>>9535136
>>9544667
>Lasts at most 3 hours on a deep discharge marine battery

>> No.9551275

>>9536953
Played a ton of Xwing vs TIE Fighter with mine

>> No.9551836

>>9528791
I have one of these its actually very fun to play the fishing games with it

>> No.9551894

>>9544581
Also the only decent part of Raving Rabbids.

>> No.9551924

>>9544581
Also all the Sega arcade games. Those were just fine on Wii.

>> No.9552974

>>9546385
Sega Saturn Pachinko controller, a type of japanese slot machine.

>> No.9552982
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>> No.9552989
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9552989

Here's your controller, bro.

>> No.9552997

>>9535302
Yep, it is. Gunstation, Google it.

>> No.9553306
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Don't know how 'bizarre' this is but I had this as a kid. Used to play crash on it all the time. The part with the buttons on it spun around too.

>> No.9553589

>>9530292
i wanted that so bad.

>> No.9553598

>>9530292
i think it was only the demo but the sequel to Steel Battalion using the Kinect was dogshit. Pretty much like most kinect games.

>> No.9553610

>>9539378
There's a mod for it that turns it into a Xinput device
https://hackaday.io/project/182810-steel-battalion-controller-teensy-adapter

>> No.9553635
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>>9535136
had a friend in school that had the tv tuner. of course it was terrible. you could pick up the local nbc station if you were lucky

>> No.9554189

>>9553635
it looks like it supported an external antenna. between that, the video input and ac adapters I bet it was comfy.

>> No.9554793

>>9547220
Classic

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>> No.9555307

>>9530260
They were made for RPGs for some reason.

>> No.9556049

>>9555307
Makes sense I guess. Since the vast majority of RPGs are turn based, you don't need the controller to be super ergonomic and it leaves you with one hand free so you can do other shit while you're grinding levels. Not the worst idea ever.

>> No.9556171

>>9555307
>>9556049
i own one of these and it's wonderful to use

>> No.9558040

>>9556171
We're talking about playing games. Not buttplay.

>> No.9558086

>>9536567
This is why Sony will never have soul.

>> No.9558096

>>9528793
Sometimes an earnest post on 4chan is still a shitpost.

>> No.9558097

>>9529546
>a
I just watched this movie. Good shit. Good times.
I used one of these machines ages ago too.