this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
39 points (100.0% liked)

Gaming

30618 readers
125 users here now

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I play games on PS5, Switch, and Mac Mini.

On consoles, I use gamepad, usually with back buttons / paddles. Nothing interesting.

On my Mac Mini, I mostly play emulated games and point and click games.

  • For emulated games, mostly using gamepad, except for shmups, fighting games, and arcade MAME games, which I use my Hori Mini Fighting Stick
  • For point and click games, Civ, and OpenRA, I use a cheap Huion drawing tablet
  • I don't play much FPS, but the last one I played was TimeWarpers (an idle FPS game), and I managed to use a trackball to play it comfortably

I switched from right hand mouse to left hand trackball (It's Kensington Expert trackball, not really right or left handed) earlier this year, because my right hand was aching. I thought it was RSI, but now when I think about it, it might have been uric acid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I kind of want one of those Hori fight sticks. But I only play SF and Darkstalkers from time to time so it might not be worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's a not-terribly-active community on the Fediverse that I saw earlier dedicated to arcade sticks.

looks

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The mini fighting stick is quite ok, but it doesn't work directly with my Mac. I have a Mayflash Magic-NS adapter that allows the OS / emulator to detect it.

I'm just using it for nostalgia, reminds me of playing old arcade games.