Yes, people are really this retarded.

I'm curious though, why did the analog button actually need to exist? Was it solely for games that gave you the option of using d-pad or analog? Games that didn't support analog just used the d-pad by default anyway, seems kind of weird to include the button instead of just coding the controller to accept both analog/-dpad inputs in games that support both.

>>4195109
In my defense, I didn't know either until I got AC3, but fuck, people are retarded. My excuse is that I didn't know any English at the time, but whoever made that picture probably uses 90% emojis while writing.

>>4195115
So you can disable it and avoid accidental inputs.

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Back in the day, I never found a use for this.

>>4195115
There are some games that don't accept inputs with the analogs sticks on. I know FFVII is one of them.

The Genesis 6-Button controllers have a Mode button for the same reason, some games developed before it was a thing won't accept inputs in the 6-Button mode.

>>4195115
The sticks were a lot closer to the D-Pad on the first version, so if you were using d-pad you wouldn't bump the stick.

Remember that the dual shock only came out in 1997, while the PSX came out in 1994. 3 years.
So, the analog button serves the purpose of compatibility. Because developers from 1994~1997 didn't know of this controller, they had no way to prepare for the analog mode. Most games work fine with the light on (just d-pad movement doesn't work), but some will get completely crazy inputs, or just refuse to register any input. That's why you turn the analog mode off.

When someone asks you why only a few PSX games were made with the analogs in mind, tell them this: game developers didn't want to exclude people who had the normal controller.

>>4195159
Games that released after 1997/8 that didn't support the analog sticks frustrate me

>>4195159
>psx
why do you call it that?

>>4195174
why do you care

>>4195174

Because that's what it's called.

Don't make me post the pic.

>>4195181
Why isn't there a PSX2?

>>4195190

Virtually all console abbreviations are 3 letters, anon.

Also the X was at the end of PSX just because it was the 90s, not for logical reasons. PS2 was not 90s.

>>4195193
Must be why the N64 was called Ultra64 by everyone

>>4195193
Yeah, like the SNES, MD, FC, and GB.

>>4195115
So you could use the analog to mimic the D-pad for games that didn't support analog

>>4195214
>virtually

>>4195115
The PS1 identifies both the Dualshock and Digital controllers differently (As well as controllers such as the Jogcon, Justifier, etc etc) . It's there as a backwards compatibility mode, in case software had issues with the "Dualshock" mode.
Everyone else that has responded to you is an idiot and incorrect.

>>4195257
how was >>4195149 incorrect?

>>4195197
When will the Dolphin be considered retro?

>>4195264
Because he's special, and everyone else is wrong.

>>4195257
How the hell would a PSX manufactured in 1994 know what a dualshock controller was? That's why they put the compatibility switch on the controller.

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>>4195325
>Because he's special
Gee, thanks Anonymous. You're a cool guy.

>>4195329
>How the hell would a PSX manufactured in 1994 know what a dualshock controller was?
How do any PS1 games use analog controls?

>>4195197
Ultra 64 was its original name. It was later changed to Nintendo 64.

>>4195115
On the PS1 it has little use, but toggling analogue does have some unexpected results in other sitatuions. When plugged into a PC you'll notice that when analogue is on the D-pad becomes four extra buttons that can be bound to anything. When analogue is off the D-pad becomes a digital version of analogue input, it replaces the default input, those four extra buttons are lost. Interestingly the right stick stays enabled even when analogue is off, toggling only affects the left stick.

>>4195115
How do you 'code the controller'? Controller is just a piece of hardware, all the code was in the games, and the controller needed to be backwards-compatible with older games.

>>4195427
That also happens in the console itself. It's just that very few games actually used both analogs. See Ape Escape. It uses both analogs and the d-pad.

What other games do is switch the left analog with the d-pad.

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>>4195174
fuck off completely
don't care if you're just doing this as a joke, just fuck off forever

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>>4195174

>>4195527
>>4195534
No one said it wasn't called that, but since no one lives in the fucking 90s any more and we know that what was properly named the PSX was an entirely different console altogether, why still call it that? Do you still refer to FF4 and FF6 as Final Fantasy 2 and 3?

>>4195765
Nobody owned the Japan only PSX so it's not talked about and this is never a source of confusion.

>>4195771
I guess you have a point. Everyone assumes you're talking about the SNES CD and not the thing that is actually literally called the PSX.

This has to be shopped. No way.

>>4195782
Most people know you're referring to the PS1 when you say PSX. Some don't even know about either the SNES CD or the PSX, in fact a friend of mine always referred to it as the PSX until I showed him either of these.

Besides in my opinion PSX sounds neat. Much better than PS1 and if we went too far, we could argue that we should call the older Playstation model "PS" and the PSOne, a PSOne or PS1. Or both as "PS".

Let's just fucking use PSX.

>>4195109
Don't bother, even /vr/ does not know, it's full of people who never used one back in the day.

You had things in mind like "well shit, this game has pretty shitty controls" and then you had the analog stick as a decent solution to that.

It's like the 3DS with DS games. You know, a handful of them aren't so nice with the fucking d-pad.

>>4195527
>>4195534
Stop posting this dog shit you miserable autistic fuck.

>>4195765
>no one lives in the fucking 90s any more
this board does.

>>4196094
>>4195765
>no one lives in the fucking 90s any more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdju-W_ZAnw
I do.
Livin' in the 90's, Fightin' in the 90's.

>>4195214
SMD, actually, not MD.

>>4195765
>no one lives in the fucking 90s any more
WTF?!

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>>4195527
>>4195534
was splitting this into 35 different parts really necessary

>>4196116
I love this shit though. I still remember 8 years ago some guy really sperging out about it on some IRC channel. Really took a while for me convince him to calm the fuck down about it. Long live PSX.

>>4196158
>i use the old wrong name because it's COOL dude