Sega, Xbox, Steam - and functionally speaking, even Sony all default to a face button scheme with the action/enter/accept button on the bottom, and cancel/back on the right. Nintendo’s control scheme is really the primary thing that throws a wrench in retro handheld setups. It’s also just a bad layout. X on top? What is that nonsense?

  • popcar2 ( popcar2@piefed.ca ) English
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    2 months ago

    Hard disagree, most people play Nintendo games on retro handhelds. Retro handhelds usually emulate PS1, which also mostly had circle to accept and X to cancel (and still does in Japan). Nobody is emulating xbox games. Following what most people are playing is the right choice, and that’s usually NES/SNES/N64/GBA.

    • cristian64 ( cristian64@reddthat.com ) English
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      2 months ago

      For people that have only played N64 and GameCube, the A button has to be in the south/center, and then the B button somewhere to the left/below.

      Nintendo messed up their own user base with the change they made for the classic gamepad in Wii. They definitely pushed me away as a user.