Current Events > What happened to analog buttons?

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Seems like every launch PS2 game used it but now most controllers don't have it anymore.

i'm always accidentally pressing down on it when i'm trying to do something precise
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I'm pretty sure analog buttons are still in use, mainly for racing games.
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Thompson posted...

I'm pretty sure analog buttons are still in use, mainly for racing games.

Those are the triggers, TC I think is talking about face buttons
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What are you talking about? the R3 and L3 presses? Tons of games utilize those.
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Directional pad?

Or like, r3/l3?
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What did the analog button on those old controllers even do? I was never clear on what they were there for.

cuttin_in_farm posted...

Directional pad?

Or like, r3/l3?

Face buttons
Square, triangle X and O
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A5modeu5 posted...

cuttin_in_farm posted...

Directional pad?

Or like, r3/l3?

Face buttons
Square, triangle X and O

He said analog buttons. Like L3 and R3.

Mikablu posted...

What did the analog button on those old controllers even do? I was never clear on what they were there for.

It depends on the game. In the KH games, it centered the camera directly behind Sora. I remember in MGO1, it reloaded your gun. I think in Chrono Cross, R3 was "accept" and L3 was "decline", so you could pretty much navigate menus and stuff without almost ever leaving the analog sticks. In the FFVII re-release on PS4, it enables certain things like no encounters, or speeding up the game.
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Kisai posted...

He said analog buttons. Like L3 and R3.

The face buttons on the PS2 controller where analog.
I am pretty sure he is talking about those.

In MGS2 for example slightly pressing square would aim and pressing it hard would fire the gun.
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Kisai posted...

A5modeu5 posted...

cuttin_in_farm posted...

Directional pad?

Or like, r3/l3?

Face buttons
Square, triangle X and O

He said analog buttons. Like L3 and R3.

Mikablu posted...

What did the analog button on those old controllers even do? I was never clear on what they were there for.

It depends on the game. In the KH games, it centered the camera directly behind Sora. I remember in MGO1, it reloaded your gun. I think in Chrono Cross, R3 was "accept" and L3 was "decline", so you could pretty much navigate menus and stuff without almost ever leaving the analog sticks. In the FFVII re-release on PS4, it enables certain things like no encounters, or speeding up the game.

No, I meant the tiny little "Analog"-labelled button on old PS controllers, not the stick buttons. Did that button just turn on/off the stick buttons or something?

Mikablu posted...

No, I meant the tiny little "Analog"-labelled button on old PS controllers, not the stick buttons. Did that button just turn on/off the stick buttons or something?

...Well, before the Dualshock, there was just a regular... non-Dualshock PlayStation controller.
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Mikablu posted...

Kisai posted...

A5modeu5 posted...

cuttin_in_farm posted...

Directional pad?

Or like, r3/l3?

Face buttons
Square, triangle X and O

He said analog buttons. Like L3 and R3.

Mikablu posted...

What did the analog button on those old controllers even do? I was never clear on what they were there for.

It depends on the game. In the KH games, it centered the camera directly behind Sora. I remember in MGO1, it reloaded your gun. I think in Chrono Cross, R3 was "accept" and L3 was "decline", so you could pretty much navigate menus and stuff without almost ever leaving the analog sticks. In the FFVII re-release on PS4, it enables certain things like no encounters, or speeding up the game.

No, I meant the tiny little "Analog"-labelled button on old PS controllers, not the stick buttons. Did that button just turn on/off the stick buttons or something?

Oh well that one turned off the Analog sticks, iirc.
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What did the analog button on those old controllers even do? I was never clear on what they were there for.

The "analog" button on the PS1 controller switched off the analog sticks in case dor some reason you wanted to do that. I never did. In any game, you could use the D-pad regardless of the state of the button. They probably put it there to simulate the normal PS1 controller, but... again, why would you want to? It doesn't give you any functionality the Dualshock doesn't.

The "analog" button on the PS2 controller I'm pretty much convinced was just for show. You pushed it and nothing happened. The light didn't even turn off.

Now on the topic of analog face buttons on the PS2, those existed specifically to make you rsge when your character did the wrong thing. Trying to interrogate a guard in MGS3? Nope, he's dead now. Trying to aim but not fire your assault rifle? Pew pew pew pew now everyone knows where you are, haha. Trying to glance around a corner in Enter the Matrix? Hey player, let me show you my new wall corner dance. It's all the rage.
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Actually the corner thing in EtM was a shoulder button thing, but it was still an analog problem.
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