what was the select button for?

what was the select button for?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Inventory or map screens

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            iirc in 2 you can change in the settings whether you want it to be swipe or L+R2

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    vestigial button

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    start

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    To select something

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    things that shouldve been on the pause menu

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For obscure jap games

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Perfect button for calling timeouts in football games because you’ll never accidentally press it.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    your mom

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it's for well what is it

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I miss the start and select button being in natural feeling locations. The PS5 controller is fricking ass.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      and the ps4 controller as well

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why the hell does share even need a dedicated button? Fricking stupid.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The Switch Pro controller drives me nuts because they put the screenshot and home buttons right fricking next to the not-start and not-select buttons and I can't tell which one I'm pressing without looking.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I just remembered that the select button on my controller is actually labeled "share". How moronded.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It does select for me. Maybe its the way the DS4 drivers work on linux.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    sex

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I wish we had gotten the original design

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Soul

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ass to ass

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It’s a repurposed snoy tv remote.
    Don’t try to find logic or ergonomics in it.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    originally it was intended to select objects. start is pause, then scroll through theoptions until youbtfegiuwHJP;B4WG3W4GHB

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  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    star punch

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It Dougs

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You press select on Adventures of Lolo to have a nice day.
      It was a different time.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it says right on it ya dingus

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    select selects
    start starts
    what you want to use the d-pad to select?
    no that's for controlling mario moron

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    To select Deez nuts.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It Dougs, obviously.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Clue is in the name to select an item

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