Gadgetory

we talked about a lot of different weird controllers before in this channel and normally when we do it's a fun little history lesson about where a controller came from why was made what game it was for and whether or not it was actually maybe even useful in certain situations this time it's a little bit different so we went on the internet we searched and bought a bunch of weird controllers and one of the ones we found was this little one right here the horrid jog dial for PlayStation now I had never heard of this controller before and so we picked it up I tried that a little bit and we did some research and I found almost nothing as far as we can gather the main idea behind this guy is that it is a one-handed controller for RPGs specifically mining the idea being that a lot of RPGs back then were turn-based they were slower so you didn't have to worry about things like hitting buttons quickly or having coordination doing button combos you could just with one hand make options and selections and do what you need to do in the game it's not an accessibility controller it is not designed to make it easier to do any kind of other game one-handed it is specifically just a way to more lazily play RPG use with one hand which does make a little bit of sense there is another line of older controllers that had the same idea as well called the ASCII grip and that was the same kind of setup right here now like I said we did find one article in Japanese talking about it and the little extra info we can glean from that is that there are these two buttons at the bottom here which have a D and T on them I wasn't terribly sure what they did before but based on article it sounds like their mode change buttons which might be the words fight and protect or defend or something that which kind of makes sense because for the T the Japanese word provide is Tata Kai Wow the T could be the first letter in that the D though I'm not so sure because other than just straight up using the word defend any Japanese word like that doesn't start with DS so it could be mixed languages or it might be totally unrelated terms that I'm just messing up here it's just I'm not sure and the thing is not even knowing what these buttons do as far as the names go just trying it out I still can't figure out what they actually do I've hit them all playing different games trying different things it doesn't seem to be any kind of turbo function or changing what buttons do they're just mode changes that might do something one of the thing we did figure out too is that while we ordered this thinking it was a ps1 controller which it will work for still it applies to that it looks like it might have actually been released for the ps2 specifically in mind now as I said this is supposed to be for RPGs supposed to make any other kind of game easy with one hand so let's actually give this a shot let's try it on some RPGs and then maybe some other games that it's not designed for so real quick first we're gonna test this on the kind of game it was actually designed for with one of my favorite PlayStation titles Final Fantasy 9 idol 10 deceit so this should be pretty simple I just have to use the d-pad and hit X every now and then maybe something else this is still called a demon d-pad when it's like a circle like that probably it counts so for Final Fantasy's from ps1 it is a little different because it's not actually turn-based there's like kind of a sense of time but it's not rushing you that much that you should still be fine doing stuff like I could imagine some specific things that come up later where you might have to use rather a hand to quickly hit one of the other buttons at the same time but those are like weird isolated incidents most of the game this is yeah fine no brainer next let's try something a little more complicated I'm gonna do Gran Turismo 2 it's your vehicle too because with a racing game I mainly just need to worry about accelerating and turning at the same time and then I guess if I want to be good at the game I should break every now and then but let's let's see how that works out with with this thing hey guys important questions do I pick a slow car so I can actually control it or should we just go fast all the time so it's gonna be weird about this is that accelerating is X and so if I want to be able to hit that but also turn at the same time I'm just gonna rest my thumb here press down and then turn which I can't imagine being comfortable oh yeah this is this is not off to start it doesn't help that the brake button is next to accelerate so if I turn too hard to the right I hit that and start braking I'm doing it I'm turning and stuff I've been second for now oh no it's about to go bad like this certainly isn't optimal but it's not bad so far once again though like I'm not really playing pro now I'm also uneasy so that's what Oh No okay now it's like bad alright so next I'm gonna go with another ps1 classic with Castlevania Symphony night that's sylvania Symphony ayat which is like a side-scrolling action game so I have to worry about moving jumping and attacking and all kinds of other stuff at the same time so this is gonna be a little more weird it's definitely more time-sensitive in the other game so far all right so I can move forward with the myth a little difficulty let's just go ahead and try and do some other stuff real quick before we even try fighting anyone yeah that's Jeff I can jump in oh no this is this is bad the other thing too is that so since the buttons are below the d-pad and I'm gonna try to hit a button and the d-pad at the same time using only one hand I end up pressing down a lot which causes me to crouch in this game and that's that's not good this isn't good but it's not as bad as that was afraid of at least so far having the trigger definitely helps but it's really difficult to simultaneously jump attack and just do all those things at once while trying to move at the same time dodging moves is a problem I'm now I'm dying I don't even know how I just did that I forgot this game viable yes good god at all this is this is a bad idea don't don't try playing Castlevania with with this don't do that let's go one step harder okay so for our last test I'm gonna try playing Metal Gear Solid Bill Gear Solid so I need to worry about crouching moving holding my gun aiming all kinds of stuff that I can't imagine even being remotely possible this controller suppose you mean consider that you have the bottom buttons and the shoulder buttons divided by this entire distance here and I only have the one thumb attack attack nope bad I can't be stealthy when I can't control very well nope that's I really need to stop taking the trigger because this just making me crouch which is not a good idea when people are firing at you now I'm not saying it's impossible together the first room it's not that's not a thing it's impossible for me to do it right now with only having this with this controller in the game for a minute look man I'm not one of those people it's gonna be dark souls using a Guitar Hero Qatar it's just not I'm not that's not me so when this controller says that it's for RPGs and nothing else it means it really don't try using this other stuff unless you just want hard mode stick to a regular PlayStation controller I can kinda understand why it kind of just disparate in history because it is such a weird specific use but that's also more the reason why I want to know anything more about it so if any of you guys watching know anything about this guy that we have already talked about in this video let me know in the comments please cuz I need to know