Comments | animeanonymous: The call to standardize gamepad button layouts.

animeanonymous

The call to standardize gamepad button layouts.

Oct 15, 2007 11:32

Almost all of my gaming these days is done on the Xbox 360 (Halo 3, Puzzle Quest, Blue Dragon and Bomberman Live) or the Nintendo DS (Picross DS, Etrian Odyssey, and Phantom Hourglass). This causes a small bit of confusion whenever I'm learning a new game for what may very well be a stupid reason. That is, on the Nintendo DS the face buttons are ( Read more... )

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kefkafloyd October 17 2007, 04:16:14 UTC

MS even took the colors from the Super Famicom face buttons and had the nerve to rearrange them as it saw fit. Jerks.

kefkafloyd October 17 2007, 22:38:04 UTC

I've got to say, though, that I hate the L1/L2/R1/R2 notation with a passion. You'd think by now that I'd be able to tell which was which in a pinch, but you'd be wrong.

LT and LB, and RT and RB? No problems. ^_^

Lys

anonymous November 2 2007, 10:09:16 UTC

You have my sympathy... I have the exactly same problem with my PS2 and DS. The PS2's 'enter' button is the 'x', which is on the bottom, while the DS's A button is on the left.

Would you care to start a petition for your grand suggestion?

anonymous April 17 2008, 23:11:14 UTC

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