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NES Controller Laser Mouse
An anonymous reader writes "Old school is new school, fool. It's time to take that retired NES controller of yours that you broke so mercilessly smashing it on the carpet in frustration at never ever ever being able to beat Ikari Warriors, and recycle that biz. Be good to the environment and turn that thing into a laser mouse, why don't you? And yes, the A button is left click, and the B is your right, and your raging case of carpal tunnel is about to get a whole lot more fun."
My problem with this is that I don't see how this could possibly a viable mouse that one can use for any length of time. INstead of having the mouse buttons in a line that corresponds to your fingers, you need to shape your hands to specifically handle it. Or, you have to turn the controller so that you have a big chunk in the way of where your thumbs rest.
It's a cool mod, but it's not practical in the least. Maybe if they turn it into a Joystick for flight sims, perhaps?
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Did anyone else besides me buy the little robot that would play gyromite with you ? That thing was awesome .I'm betting that has seriosu modding potential .
would be modding an optical mouse into the Super Nintendo mouse.
It's something I've been thinking about for a while but hadn't gotten around to doing. The SNES mouse would certainly be more practical (useable) in Quake or Firefox.