Happy to announce the collaboration I've been working on behind the scenes with TurbX has dropped!

Cael x TurbX Astra

I unsurprisingly indulged in pretty angelic lineart for form and function.

The Asspull 3X controller. Looks rather strikingly similar to a certain other input device, doesn't it?

But that's not why I posted this.

I just watched an interesting YT video about the select button. About how the NES had one because some Nintendo arcade games had one and the controller therefore needed one for home ports. And how this then basically became a vestige of backwards compatibility. Even the PlayStation controller has a select button remaining from its past as the Nintendo Play Station (two words).

So the A3X controller, I designed it with start and select buttons. You can't see 'em on this render but there's two shoulder buttons too.

But does it really need a select button? Does it in fact need a start button, or can it be reasonably relabeled "pause"?

To wit, the GeneDrive's controller only has a single start button. Its predecessor the Master System had none, overloading 1 to also mean start. Almost(?) all Sega consoles afterwards also had only a start button.

The Gravis PC Gamepad of course also had none, but the PC-Engine had select and run buttons. And the XBox-lookalike Logitech controller I test all this with has start and back buttons.

So now I'm doubting myself again, as one does, and could really use some external inputs (lame pun intended) to help guide things.

Me: *worried the D-pad on the A3X controller might be too small*

A3X D-pad: *exactly to scale*

Design and Construction of Control System for Automatic Voltage Stabilizer

by Hnin Hnin Aye "Design and Construction of Control System for Automatic Voltage Stabilizer" 

Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-1 , December 2018, 

URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd19004.pdf

Direct Link: http://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electrical-engineering/19004/design-and-construction-of-control-system-for-automatic-voltage-stabilizer/hnin-hnin-aye

open access journal of engineering, ugc approved journals for engineering, call for paper engineering

I made this 3d controller. I know the design would be impractical for a real controller. I don’t think your thumbs would be able to reach the joysticks. aha

I just thought a controller that is made to look like a D pad would look cool.