what was the select button for?
what was the select button for?
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Inventory or map screens
Pretty much. Kinda silly how they got rid of start and select when it seems most games just turn the touch pad into a giant button to replicate their function.
The LED got more practical use than the touchpad. Even in games that used gestures and shit the touchpad is just too out of place to use naturally.
The touch pad was pretty nice for drawing in Tearaway. The worst game to use it in my experience was Gravity Rush because dodging is mapped to swiping the touch pad in the direction you want to dodge, since the vita version had you dodge by swiping the touch screen which worked alright even though it was awkward, but the dodge on the PS4 version is just unusable because of it. I forget if dodging in 2 worked the same way or not.
iirc in 2 you can change in the settings whether you want it to be swipe or L+R2
vestigial button
start
To select something
things that shouldve been on the pause menu
For obscure jap games
Perfect button for calling timeouts in football games because you’ll never accidentally press it.
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I miss the start and select button being in natural feeling locations. The PS5 controller is fucking ass.
and the ps4 controller as well
i just hate how the logo for start and share look basically the same in a quick look and you always press the wrong one when prompted
Why the hell does share even need a dedicated button? Fucking stupid.
The switch pro controller drives me nuts because they put the screenshot and home buttons right fucking next to the not-start and not-select buttons and I can't tell which one I'm pressing without looking.
I just remembered that the select button on my controller is actually labeled "share". How retardded.
I don't know if you're talking about the PS4 controller, but on it the Share button isn't Select. Share is just for stupid features you'll never use. Pressing on the touch pad is used as the replacement for Select.
It does select for me. Maybe its the way the DS4 drivers work on linux.
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I wish we had gotten the original design
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It’s a repurposed snoy tv remote.
Don’t try to find logic or ergonomics in it.
originally it was intended to select objects. start is pause, then scroll through theoptions until youbtfegiuwHJP;B4WG3W4GHB
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On the NES and SNES select was sometimes used to toggle between menus at the start of the game and some other options. The start button either started the game from the title screen or usually just literally halted the game (to perform as pause). The select button was then relegated to performing basic actions like maybe switching weapons or something. Maybe on the SNES era it toggled your map on or off during the overworld exploration, I dunno.
Then, since the original playstation controller was just a SNES controller with R2, L2 and the horns, they carried over the select button and gave it the same kind of misc. use like on the SNES. Just actions that you don't perform often and therefore should not really be that accessible with the natural playing position. For example on Final Fantasy 7, if you press select while exploring you activate a help to see the doors and the location of your chacater more easily. On the battles it toggled additional info on the enemies on/off and so forth. A lot of games had no use for it, but it was nice to have.
You would press start to enter a mode select screen and then use select to choose which mode you want to play and then hit start again to play the game.
You press select on Adventures of Lolo to have a nice day.
It was a different time.
it says right on it ya dingus
select selects
start starts
what you want to use the d-pad to select?
no that's for controlling mario retard
To select Deez nuts.
Select lets you choose between game type A and B. On the PS1 and 2 you had to get up and physically toggle a switch instead of just pressing a button on your controller, so it's a nice upgrade.
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Clue is in the name to select an item