TytaTite

You'd think that there would be more indie games that use one-button/one-stick, considering of the wealth of European indie developers, the continent's history with 8 bit computers that used mainly Atari joysticks, and the general worldwide retro gaming culture. However, for some reason there aren't that many games in general that go back to this format. Most indie devs in general seem to take more inspiration from the NES, which obviously had most of its games take advantage of its two-button controller.

Okay yeah, in retrospect, that was a really stupid thing for me to say. I'll admit that.

I mean you could play like that. It's not required to shoot fireballs. You could play the whole game through without shooting a single fireball. However, it just feels like it's crippling the game experience.

Does anyone know of any modern games for mainstream consoles that only require one joystick or d-pad, and one button? The only game I can think of is Super Mario, but even then, you would need a second button to shoot fireballs and to sprint.

That's a shame. I think even the USB ones have multi-button support, which are made by the same company as the 9-pin reproduction to my understanding. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Does anyone know if there's an easy way to mod them so that all 4 buttons can each function independently? With an adapter, perhaps I can make the buttons correspond to A/B/Select/Start on an NES controller.

So I recently ordered a reproduction Competition Pro Retro joystick (the 9-pin plug one, not the USB one), which is coming in the mail soon. I was wondering: Do the fire buttons register as independent buttons when plugged into a system that supports multi-button controllers, like the SEGA Genesis or Atari 7800? I think I heard from somewhere that some of the original ones from the 80s may have had that feature, but I'm not sure if the new ones do as well.

Hi. I'm debating on which 80's computer I should get for cheap sound and music design. Basically, I want to turn it into a ghetto music workstation. I'm looking for something around the 16/32 bit era of 80's computers (like somewhere around 1985 to 1993, more or less) Two computers of interest are the Amiga and the Atari ST; however if someone could inform me of something better, I'd be happy to consider it. I've turned to here because I literally cannot find any information on this from anywhere on the internet, so if people here could help me out on this, that would be awesome. Thanks.