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Dan Luu Mar 23, 2023

As someone who couldn't care less about fighting games, I find the SSBM controller situation fascinating

Apparently some top players to spend thousands of dollars on controller mods to get a good controller and, before there were controller mods, maybe even more to find a good copy of a controller?

And there are all-digital controllers that fix the problems with "classic" controllers, commonly used in other fighting games, but they're considered unfair or even cheating by a lot of folks?

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cancel Mar 23, 2023

@danluu Historically, a portion of the skill involved in Melee was in finessing the analog inputs to do what you want, quickly and consistently. The “digital” controllers output exactly the right values on the analog axes to do the specific moves that people want to do in Melee. I don’t agree with the people who think it’s cheating or unfair, but you can kinda see where they’re coming from.

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Alexander The 1st

@cancel @danluu I mean, it's steps from "This controller will do specifically what I want to do even if tell it to do more", to essentially Turbo Controllers (Which admittedly probably would mess up your inputs, but importantly would *also* mess up your opponent's inputs in a pretty likely to be ruled "Cheating" way.), and then to TAS-input-assisted controllers.