Techfreak's Dpad Mod! It's Free...

[techFreak]

Hi People,

DPAD Mod is what we need for GP2X! I have discovered GP2X has already got a DPAD. h34r: How? Just turn your GP2X 180 degrees. Now you have a dpad in the left side of your GP2X. B for left, A for right, X for up and Y for down. Stick Button, Vol + and Vol - can be used as buttons. You can use L and R shoulder buttons with your palm if you need. Joystick also can be used for alternative moves in Doom, Duke3D or Quake (Strafe look, turn)! Here's how it looks like:

All we need from developers to have support to rotate the screen 180 degrees and button mapping! I think it may be very good for emulators such as Gnuboy and HU6280. :wub:

As an alternative; maybe Kounch can develope a utility to rotate the screen 180 degrees and change the button registers.

 

[clarky2o2o]

by george its so stupid I think hes got it



lol well ill be ok with it as it be not that much different than playing N64 games on the pc using a ps1/2 pad

 

[moz]

GP2xEngine does this already

 

[craigix]

The MK2 screen will probably look better at that angle too

 

[Aninhumer]

I tried setting up quake to use the buttons as a D-Pad, and I didn't think it worked. You can't slide your thumb around like you can on a normal pad.

Hang on I just tried it again, it does work, at least for quake. I don't think I'd want to hold it upside down though...

 

[Hory]

Indeed GP2Xengine does it and it is great.

I propose that every emulator implement this feature. It's really useful for certain games. Pretty please?

 

[Wite_Noiz]

Personally, I think that's genius. Good job!

 

[God Ginrai]

by george its so stupid I think hes got it



lol well ill be ok with it as it be not that much different than playing N64 games on the pc using a ps1/2 pad

That's a sin! O_O

 

[WhiteFalcon]

I like the idea, cannot figure out why it did not occure to me too

The joystick can act as one button too so we have three buttons on the right side, just like on the Megadrive standard gamepad.

 

[ruffnutts]

Even though the GP2X looks crap upside down lol

 

[starpause]

using this method, the first thing a stranger will notice about you is that you're playing your video games upside down--not that you're playing video games on a psp-knockoff

 

[aapje89]

using this method, the first thing a stranger will notice about you is that you're playing your video games upside down--not that you're playing video games on a psp-knockoff

Loool :lol:

 

[The Spider Mastermind]

I just tried setting up DRMD like that. It was actually pretty easy to control, but I found myself dying a lot because I was playing sonic upside down . If there was a rotate-180 option, It would certainly be a good plan.

 

[rabidcow]

Why do you need to turn it 180 degrees to do that? Can't the dpad be on the right?

 

[jmetal88]

Sometimes I play my Lynx with the D-Pad on the right...

 

[PSyMastR]

HAHAHAHHHAHAHAHA! That is so great. Techfreak's dpad mod FTW!

 

[nickspoon]

This is even better than that free stand!

 

[Aaaaaaaa]

whats wrong with using the stick?

 

[pantera6]

this was mentioned a while ago
but its good that someone re-thought it and captured more attention

 

[ste_167]

This is great, I'd not seen it before! A 'fix' for gngeo2x, anyone???