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Jan. 18th, 2016 05:20 amMom made me a Reuben sandwich for lunch yesterday between 10 and 11. An hour or so later, I noticed the sandwich press plugged in, and unplugged it thinking that she might've left it that way. Next thing I know, Mom tells Dad that he didn't plug it in (obviously after some complaining on his part), and I happened to be just in my room not that far away and able to clear things up.
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Started playing Freedom Planet once and for all, after hearing from Jake that the game is going to be nerfed when the patches come out. He told me that those responsible for said patches have basically been kissing the asses of those who complain that the game is too hard (even on Easy and Medium difficulty), even though the developers made a point of eliminating collision damage (of all things).
During the conversation that ensued from there, I told him that I will do no such thing with Day of the Beehive if that ever gets materialized. While I am aware that the ridiculous difficulty of Earthbound Zero was a result of insufficient testing (and that was during a time when patches were obviously impossible to provide), the only people who will have any say about DotB's difficulty will be those who I allow to beta-test the game in return for any funding on their part (especially since I will be providing the game for free).
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Moving on, first thing I obviously did (after watching the opening cutscene) was to configure the controls. While I'm obviously using a keyboard, the gamepad option is represented by what's surely enough a Saturn controller. However, the direction buttons are represented with a joystick (as opposed to a D-pad), and the action and pause buttons are simply numbered 1, 2, 3, and 7, instead of with letters (or shapes, which all Playstation controllers have). And then I google to see which controllers the game is actually playable with, and find a forum thread where people claim to have played it through Xbox 360 and One controllers.
I did read on the FAQ page for Mother 4 recently, that that game will be gamepad-compatible. At first, I thought this would be specifically with an NES or SNES controller and maybe the Game Boy Advance itself (if anything exists to let that act as a controller), but with this new information, maybe it's just a way to make things convenient in general.
After having read that about M4, I had gotten the idea of enabling DotB to be played via a Playstation, Saturn, or PC-FX controller, displaying all three controller types alongside a keyboard icon in the configuration menu, and even commissioning for devices to allow them to connect with a hard drive. Special mention goes to the PC-FX variety, which is particularly unique in tandem w/ the other two; whereas Playstation and Saturn controllers respectively had shapes and letters for the face buttons and one and two pairs of shoulder buttons (L and R), PC-FX ones had six face buttons w/ Roman numerals, no shoulder buttons, and even a pause button labeled "Run" instead of "Start".
By the way, it was legal for Sega to design its Genesis controllers to also work on Atari's already defunct 2600, right?
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Started playing Freedom Planet once and for all, after hearing from Jake that the game is going to be nerfed when the patches come out. He told me that those responsible for said patches have basically been kissing the asses of those who complain that the game is too hard (even on Easy and Medium difficulty), even though the developers made a point of eliminating collision damage (of all things).
During the conversation that ensued from there, I told him that I will do no such thing with Day of the Beehive if that ever gets materialized. While I am aware that the ridiculous difficulty of Earthbound Zero was a result of insufficient testing (and that was during a time when patches were obviously impossible to provide), the only people who will have any say about DotB's difficulty will be those who I allow to beta-test the game in return for any funding on their part (especially since I will be providing the game for free).
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Moving on, first thing I obviously did (after watching the opening cutscene) was to configure the controls. While I'm obviously using a keyboard, the gamepad option is represented by what's surely enough a Saturn controller. However, the direction buttons are represented with a joystick (as opposed to a D-pad), and the action and pause buttons are simply numbered 1, 2, 3, and 7, instead of with letters (or shapes, which all Playstation controllers have). And then I google to see which controllers the game is actually playable with, and find a forum thread where people claim to have played it through Xbox 360 and One controllers.
I did read on the FAQ page for Mother 4 recently, that that game will be gamepad-compatible. At first, I thought this would be specifically with an NES or SNES controller and maybe the Game Boy Advance itself (if anything exists to let that act as a controller), but with this new information, maybe it's just a way to make things convenient in general.
After having read that about M4, I had gotten the idea of enabling DotB to be played via a Playstation, Saturn, or PC-FX controller, displaying all three controller types alongside a keyboard icon in the configuration menu, and even commissioning for devices to allow them to connect with a hard drive. Special mention goes to the PC-FX variety, which is particularly unique in tandem w/ the other two; whereas Playstation and Saturn controllers respectively had shapes and letters for the face buttons and one and two pairs of shoulder buttons (L and R), PC-FX ones had six face buttons w/ Roman numerals, no shoulder buttons, and even a pause button labeled "Run" instead of "Start".
By the way, it was legal for Sega to design its Genesis controllers to also work on Atari's already defunct 2600, right?