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Modding Game Controllers For Greater Grip
japala writes "Fast-paced videogames require a steady hand and great reflexes, it's generally agreed. But some game controllers and pads just don't seem to fit in your hand, and sometimes they slip and slide, making you miss the action. So Metku.net has tried coating videogame controllers with chemical rubber - it seems to improve grip, and possibly even your score."
because my game is nethack!
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So Mektu.net has tried coating videogame controllers with chemical rubber - it seems to improve grip, and possibly even your score.
My girl improved her grip without the rubber so I don't know wha.. wait.
This is a game controller? Eh *tries to recover* who said love wasn't a game?
--zo
They should have coated it in rich creamery butter. If nothing else, it would have been more delicious.
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I'd wager that most net-aware geeks with broadband access have already developed an extraordinary grip thanks in large part to non-gaming computer entertainment. Hell, I've seen geeks who have forearm imbalances like a tennis player! Trust me, geeks are finding ways to develop impressive gripping endurance.
But some game controllers and pads just don't seem to fit in your hand, and sometimes they slip and slide, making you miss the action.
Damn, coffee all over my keyboard. I curse my British upbringing...
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
You mean your score for volatile hydrocarbons circulating through your bloodstream?
You there, fill it up with petroleum distillate and re-vulcanize my joystick, post haste.
It seems that overclocking the chips are all the rage these days, but I was excellent at Wolfenstein 3D when it first came out, because my computer ran at 20 Mhz and the minimum recommended speed was 25 Mhz. Slowing down the processor turns a real time game into a turn based game.
Now having said that, since overclocking requires massive cooling effects, would underclocking require that there be an external heat source? Or by underclocking, will an endothermic reaction occur, giving you a free air conditioner. Hmmm. I'll have to do some investigating here...
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Stop pounding off to DOA: Extreme Beach Volleyball, and you will find the controller doesn't slip out of your hands as much.
So in other words, "The more you tighten your grip...the more game controllers will slip through your fingers"?
Shhhhhh...
The rubber coating is actually meant for those bastards that insist on throwing the controllers when they've had their ass kicked in multiplayer game. You know the kind,
"What the hell? Fuck that, I pressed pass...I PRESSED PASS!!!!"
*controller zings by plasma screen as I cringe*
"OH, COME ON!!!! I was JUMPING!!!!"
*controller sends cat screeching into the other room*
With enough coating it will be more like,
"Bullshit, I COUNTERED!!!"
*controller is thrown to the floor, bounces up and hits the guy in the face*
And I imagine a few saved TV screens, scratched pieces of wood furniature, etc.
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