It also just uh, doesn’t have a cord.
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yyyesss@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I thought this might be real a second until I zoomed in on that AI slop controller.
The d-pad isn’t straight and the buttons are all different sizes.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Daveyborn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Image is definitely AI but there was third party IR controllers
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Well shit, I’d never heard of an IR NES controller.
Yeah, sounds like that would be awful lol.
I still remember figuring out that you don’t actually technically need the Wii Sensor bar.
Literally, two candles can do the job, rofl!
StephenMillersBarbie@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
I remember having it…they were so bad
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Very different from an IR controller though. The wiimote has an IR camera and the console looks for two static light points to triangulate a position, it doesn’t transmit anything to the console through IR.
If you’ve used an IR TV remote, you can imagine how bad an actual IR-connected controller would be. Needs a perfectly unobstructed line of sight to wherever the sensor is, can’t turn your controller too much or you’ll miss the sensor, might occasionally be subject to wrong input/light interferences…
One of the weirdest use of video game IR I know though : the 3DS had a IR port. It was used for almost nothing.
BUT. At some point Nintendo released the Circle pad pro. It’s a thing you clip on your 3DS to add a right stick and a pair of triggers.
It was not plugged into the console at all. It was just using the IR port which it was touching. Of course it didn’t have the reliability problems from remote IR, since it was basically shining an IR LED directly at its sensor with nothing in between. I guess they didn’t have a lot of options for communication ports, but still, using IR for communication between two devices that are in direct contact is weird.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There were wireless Atari 2600 controllers. RF ones, that had a big telescopic antenna that stuck out.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I mean, if they were RF, they would probably actually work, but damn that sounds like they looked goofy, haha!
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
For me it was the launcher. Looks like half of it just doesn’t exist.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Beat ya to it lol, but uh yeah, apparently AI must think multitubed rocket launchers are the same as fingers.
… I wonder how much it fuck up something like a multibarrel grenade launcher…
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 month ago
Doesn’t the VHS or whatever it’s supposed to be under the TV also look crooked?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Presumably that is supposed to be an NES, a ‘Nintendo’.
It is… closer to looking like a NES than it is to most VCRs of the time… but yeah, not very close lol.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Nintendo_Entertainment_System
Top: NES, mostly exported out of Japan.
Bottom: Famicom, basically the same thing in a different external appearance, mostly for the Japanese market.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 month ago
You’re right, I was never lucky enough to have one so my first thought was those silver grey VCRs of my childhood.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Oddly, I only remember black VCRs…
But fortunately, it is easier than ever to emulate NES games, at least! =P
xyzzy@lemmy.today 1 month ago
That’s also not what Commando for the NES looks like. This looks closer to the arcade version of Ikari Warriors.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
I really appreciate how many different reasons this picture is crap.
I wouldn’t be surprised if AI-Arnold’s watch looks like something that was designed later or something.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
This poor OP has called down the wrath of 80/90s gamers/nerds and retro emulators, oh god they no idea what they’ve done lol.