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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    1 month 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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      1 month 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.

  • WFH ( Wfh@lemmy.zip ) English
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    1 month ago

    Meanwhile I opened my RGCubeXX to swap AB/XY. Which means I had to swap the buttons at the OS level. Which means I regularly have to swap back buttons in game.

    Still worth it tho.

  • Joe Bidet ( JoeBidet@lemmy.ml ) English
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    1 month ago

    I don’t personally care as much about “industry” or standards that i care about history and preservation. For me (and i wouldn’t push this on anyone), a mobile console is a gameboy, and my favourite console ever is the SNES (among others… who said PCEngine?? ;) ) so i appreciate that.

    I am all in favour of having controllers that would have several options through. Like the 8bitdo pro allows for different buttons schemes…

  • veee ( veeesix@lemmy.ca ) English
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    1 month ago

    If you consider that the more comfortable position to place your thumbs on the right side of a controller are at the edges (e.g. on a SNES controller it’s dpad-left and A) it makes sense that the A button should be on the right (i.e. the first button from the perspective of your right hand).

    • AnimalsDream ( AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ) OPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Faulty premise, I do not consider the right side to be more comfortable. If it were up to me, A would be bottom, and B would be left, because in a lot of games B tends to be attack and A either jump or some dodge roll. That setup makes it convenient to place the thumb over both buttons simultaneously.

  • AceFuzzLord ( AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ) English
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    1 month ago

    I personally LOVE the “BAXY” ( right down left up ) layout because I think it is the most logical button layout. As much as I’m not a fan of microsoft, they perfected button layout, IMO.