Here’s the Xbox Fisher Price controller in action!
tell me what games you would like to see me play with it
and thanks to @ Wario64 for the joke that inspired me to do this pic.twitter.com/3OETvcsEsI
– Rudeism (@rudeism) May 1, 2022
This may come as no surprise if you’ve heard of Dylan “Rudeism” Beck in the past, because this is actually one of the least ambitious control stunts the local New Zealander and Twitch streamer has done – he’s the guy who won the Dark Souls 3 with one The Morse Code controller with a single button, made a lighted sword with controlled movement and power glove for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and created its own controls with wings, swing and horn for the Untitled Goose Game. You can see all this in the tweets below:
Dark Souls 3 defeated by Morse code!
19 bosses, 258,250 button presses. (DLC will come)
Just because it can be defeated with a button does not mean that games like Dark Souls should not have accessibility and difficulty options! pic.twitter.com/DporRqC15E
– Rudeism (@rudeism) October 24, 2021
However, Rudeism tells The Verge that the new Fisher-Price mod is one of his favorite builds, “precisely because of how clean it looks”. After a while, he was able to squeeze an entire Arduino Pro Micro clone in there, a two-axis joystick (as the original Fisher-Price “joystick was actually just a button) and a few microswitches to turn the original” click, but “-Non-electric” shoulder buttons “on real buttons as well.
All the original Fisher-Price buttons still work, though – until the Konami Code Easter egg – because it has set up the Arduino to piggyback from its inputs by sticking directly to the pre-existing board. So, yes, they do play games with the real Fisher-Price gamepad, not just using a Fisher-Price gamepad as a shell. You have to plug it in, though: “Unfortunately there is not much room for batteries,” he says, as the Arduino takes up this room.
How do you get every Xbox button out of these limited controls, you ask? Well, you can not take them all at once. However, it created the Fisher-Price slider as a mode selector that can allow you to have either a left or right analog lever at any time, as well as access the Start, Select and Guide buttons in A, B and C. ” “Bumpers” can be both bumpers and triggers on their own, as they will press a different switch depending on whether you move them left or right.
Rudeism says it was a two-week backburner project and started as a joke: Wario64 deal hunter wrote on Twitter that the gamepad would be “perfect for the Elden Ring” and decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, there are no plans from Rudeism to destroy the bosses with the children’s gamepad yet, but he says he plans to win the whole game this way (he also works on a YouTube video if you want to try it too). The total budget was $ 20, including the controller itself – but admittedly not the old 3D printer he used to make bases to hold the joystick and switches in place.
I do not know if I will make one of these with the pillow of my now two years old, but it is a pleasure to see this piece of plastic and circuit in the titles once again.
