Hacking idea for a screw in joystick for NDS?

[fitzbean]

Don't know if this has been done - if so, lead the way.. but remember the old sega 8bit controller that came with a small threaded joystick you could pop a small cap off the game pad and screw into the middle of it? This would probably work pretty well for the nds game pad, no?

 

[tjas]

dosn't really sound durable...

 

[fitzbean]

durable? Well I don't suggest tossing it around in the yard, but it would be plenty strong of course dependent on the thickness of the plastic of the game pad.

 

[lagman]

Yes, but it's a removable piece so you can lose it, that's not good.

 

[larvi]

The original Gravis Gamepad for the PC had one of those too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravis_Gamepad
If I remember right it didn't work all that well but it could have just been my lack of dexeterity.

 

[sirAnger]

Seems like a rather small thing to re-engineer the DS for just that. The threads would have to go in pretty deep in order to be stable enough to jerk around. I think that might increase the size of the DS a bit. The gravis pad was thick and didn't have hardly anything behind its + pad.

I wouldn't use it - I'm fine with the + pad as it is.

 

[Veho]

I wouldn't like it

It would be too fiddly, I prefer the D-pad, and besides, what would you gain with it? You still wouldn't have analog, and now you'd have a clumsy console, because you can't keep a grip on it with that knob sticking out and teeter-tottering this way and that while you're trying to hold the DS (and play, too).

 

[Kenzya]

The original Gravis Gamepad for the PC had one of those too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravis_Gamepad
If I remember right it didn't work all that well but it could have just been my lack of dexeterity.

Haha I had that controller. The screw in stick was waaaaay too tall to be useful. It didn't change the fact that it was still an 8 direction d-pad. It was just much more effective to not use the stick.