What peripheral do you think should make a comeback?

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• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The full guitars, drumkit and mic setup for Guitar Hero made for a pretty fun party game

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• sicarius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a gun available called The sinden lightgun it doesn’t use infra red, it had a high speed camera in the barrel and monitors it’s position relative to the border of the TV. Works brilliantly on modern tva and even projectors.

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  • Redfeather@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I second the Sinden. I use it in MAME and it requires some config changes to set it up, but their support documentation on how to get it up and running is spot on. The only real problem game I’ve run across is Terminator 2.

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  • turbodrooler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s also the GUN4IR project that can be put together for a fraction of the cost of the Sinden. The Sinden requires a visible border around your game.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s so bad.

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But it’s what I want.

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• You_are_dust@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Roll & Rocker. Games today just don’t require you to balance on a weird peripheral like they used to.

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• ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want a lightgun that works like those big chunky ones you’d see on arcade machines back in the day that weighed like 4 lbs and had servos to give it real clacky recoil. I know people make these and you can buy them (or even just pull ones off an old arcade cabinet and interface them with the hardware) but they’re way to expensive for me to actually buy though.

  If it was like a $50-100 project maybe but I’m pretty sure it’s like $600+ and that’s just an obscene amount of money for this. But it would be fun

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  • waz@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I miss the Time Crisis gun for playstation

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    • turbodrooler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Look into the GUN4IR project. They have drop-in replacement parts to make the Guncon work on LCD monitors.

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• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Super Scope, we hardly knew ye.

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Battleclash & Metal Combat were both awesome. Another forgotten IP…

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• tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Steel Batallion’s humongous controller. That beast is the most fun I ever had with a simulator.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How many times did you lose your save file from not ejecting in time before you removed the little cover over the eject button?

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    • tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Too many to count, I almost tore that cover apart but kept it for immersion…

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was hoping someone would bring this up!

    I got to play with one at PAX. It was so much fun!

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  • oddspinnaker@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was always super jealous of this controller but I couldn’t afford it when it first came out!

    I love ridiculous controllers.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can get modern light guns that work with newer displays. They track using infrared, so it’s not quite the same, but it’s good enough to play all the arcade mame classics without a problem.

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• oddspinnaker@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was playing a lot of Final Fantasy VII when it first came out around 1996, and used a paper strategy guide.

  I got a one-handed controller (an ASCII Grip that was amazing for old JRPGs. I still miss having it for those kinds of chill games where I don’t feel like I need to be hunching over a controller.

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• gwheel@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Check out GUN4IR, I put together a two player setup last year and it’s a ton of fun. The accuracy and response time are basically perfect. They also support solenoids for arcade games, but I haven’t had the time to put that together yet.

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• ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not sure I’d want it to come back, but this post brought back the memory of Boktai. It was a gameboy game where the cartridge had a built in light sensor that let you charge your weapon within the game.

  …wikipedia.org/…/Boktai:_The_Sun_Is_in_Your_Hand

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have never even seen a foot pad controller, like for the NES Track and Field or the more popular Dance Dance Revolution for a PC.

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• sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cranks and dials like the Tempest arcade cabinet and the more recent Playdate.

  The Playdate almost nailed it.

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• B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fishing Controller and a copy of Sega Bass Fishing for the Dreamcast was good fun.

  I’m a big fan of the lightgun more though and have so many good memories. Point Blank, Die Hard Trilogy, Virtua Cop, Time Crisis, Confidential Mission, House of the Dead and even Ghost Squad and Red Steel 2 on the Wii were all so good.

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    House of the Dead was an all-timer.

    I also loved the Jurassic Park arcade game.

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• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll throw out another one, too: Force feedback joysticks were amazing for flight sims, but I’m not sure you can get a new one at a reasonable price.

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Light gun games. With VR this would be an absolute cash cow of releases like time crisis and house of the dead

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aren’t those pretty much a staple of VR games? A lot of them seem like shooters

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but they’re not Time Crisis and House of the Dead.

      Crisis VRGrade 2 will never be time crisis no matter how much inspiration it takes from it :)

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