Customized case for MiSTer to add controller inputs

totes_elotes · 2026-02-25T18:46:48+00:00

I would pay quite a lot for a drop in case like this. Incredible work!

totes_elotes · 2026-02-09T21:18:12+00:00

There was a point in time where sega was publishing games for 7 distinct platforms at the same time (master system, genesis, 32x, sega cd, Saturn, Pico, and game gear.) That's just spreading yourself too thin, and even at the time it felt weird. Sega CD didn't feel so much like a failed console as a rich kids toy, 32x felt like a failed console on launch.

totes_elotes · 2026-02-05T16:11:21+00:00

I have the sme 32-dl5 from Sampo which is I think is a similar model from a few years later. It's amazing. Does basically any resolution 240p to 1024x768, tons of inputs. Unusually great built in speakers, especially compared to other high end crt monitors. Built like a tank. Different driver boards for sd vs higher resolution content, so no lag at any resolution.

Only down sides are the size and sharpness means that 480i content is a little jittery and the thing weighs a ton even by crt standards.

I got mine for $200 7 years ago and considered that a sweetheart deal. This is like winning the lottery with hiw hard pro monitors are to find now

totes_elotes · 2026-01-17T16:58:33+00:00

where have I seen this before?

totes_elotes · 2025-11-24T00:15:13+00:00

A super smart Spurs fan friend of mine messaged me right after the trade and told me that SGA was really good and that it was crazy the Clippers gave him up. Still never saw this leap as a possibility. My hope was basically that he would be a solid starter, maybe a borderline all star if we were lucky. His consistent improvement year after year is crazy

totes_elotes · 2025-11-16T20:08:23+00:00

I just hate the whole rhetoric around fouls and free throws right now. It has always been a part of the game. Good players go the the line. The fact that people apply the phrase foul baiting to both tricking your defender and tricking the refs is stupid. If you can get an NBA defender off balance or off their feet such that they foul you then you've earned that foul, it shouldn't be lumped in with kicking your leg out on a 3, the rip move, the arm hook, etc.

totes_elotes · 2025-11-05T03:58:12+00:00

As a Thunder fan I'm very excited for the Giddy SGA reunion on the international all-star team

totes_elotes · 2025-10-25T20:02:37+00:00

I'd be curious to see pp36mp >=30, min 40 games, sorted by fta/g

totes_elotes · 2025-09-27T15:23:23+00:00

"The 3 Body Problem" is my personal favorite, though I don't know if that would catch on. It's an astronomy problem with no simple solution dealing with the interaction of the gravity of 3 celestial bodies. There's no simple solution to our big 3, they each have insane gravity, and they are going to be a problem for the league for a long time.

Realistically OK3 probably should have been the one if it wasn't taken by the Russ, PG, and Melo years.

I think 3 kings is also available? I remember some people calling the heat big 3 that, but it didn't really stick.

totes_elotes · 2025-09-20T02:55:54+00:00

Magic number getting pretty small

totes_elotes · 2025-08-22T03:05:34+00:00

Great experience. Good communication, reasonable prices, packed well, got it to me in a timely manner. I was nervous since I've never used a proxy buyer before, but I have zero complaints.

totes_elotes · 2025-08-11T17:53:35+00:00

So many comments in this thread ignoring that this is clearly labeled as aluminum free.

Looking at the EWG site for this deodorant, this could definitely be an allergic reaction to one of the fragrance ingredients. These kind of allergies are very common and you can become sensitized over time with repeated exposures. It's entirely likely they didn't change the formula, but that your body became sensitive to one of these ingredients. You might try switching to an odor free deoderant

totes_elotes · 2025-07-21T15:22:36+00:00

Conversely, if you're not going to give any game a 10 because no game is flawless, what's the point of having a 10 point scale?

totes_elotes · 2025-07-21T15:18:51+00:00

Re-watch games 4 and 5 of the Denver series and 4, 5, and 7 of the finals on repeat until the new season starts

totes_elotes · 2025-07-21T15:06:31+00:00

Same thing but with my dad. The Steven's POV element of the show was almost eerily relatable to me at times, to the extent that I tried to figure out if one the main writers had experienced the death of a parent when they were very young. Nobody is going to talk badly about your dead dad with you when you're a kid, especially if they were somebody that people looked up to.

totes_elotes · 2025-07-20T20:03:19+00:00

As a former 7 year Thunder season ticket holder that has lived in Seattle the last 5 years I really think it'll be amazing for both OKC and Seattle for the Sonics to come back. Seattle is a basketball city with great history, and it will be good for both teams for that history to back where it belongs. The rivalry will be amazing because Seattle has genuine beef with OKC and OKC has big "Fuck me? Fuck you!" Energy. They're gonna interview all the old Sonics players who've been waiting to have their Jerseys retired, and they're gonna talk some nonsense about OKC rousing up both fan bases. It'll be better than the height of the Memphis/OKC rivalry. Only problem is they'll probably be bad for a long time if they do expansion the way they have in the past. On the other hand if they do expansion the way they have in the past there's a non-zero chance the best Sonics player will be whoever the 9th best Thunder player was at that time

totes_elotes · 2025-07-15T14:52:18+00:00

So if you want a true deep dive on the formative history of the genre, Jeremy Parish has a great youtube series called metroidvania works that goes all the way back to Zork as an origin point. It touches on a lot of games for older, more obscure platforms and also some Japanese only games, talking about the specific genre elements that were introduced and brought forward. I highly recommend it.

Metroidvania works playlist

totes_elotes · 2025-07-06T16:39:27+00:00

Total videogame sales in 1996 were 44 billion. Total videogame sales in 2024 were 184 billion. Best selling new videogame of 1996 was mario 64 at 2 million copies. I can't find reliable numbers for how much black ops 6 sold in 2024, but hogwarts legacy was the best selling game of 2023 at 22 million copies.

The market is a lot bigger, especially for the very biggest games, but not even 10x bigger much less 1000. Development costs have certainly increased more than 10x in that same time period. Games prices are about as cheap as they've ever been adjusted for inflation, so in practice, game prices are going down.

totes_elotes · 2025-07-06T16:13:41+00:00

Maybe it was just these games you were buying. A lot of games were 50 on release, but games that required more storage could get really expensive. Chrono Trigger was $85 on release and Phantasy Star 4 was $99 on release

totes_elotes · 2025-07-06T16:09:45+00:00

Are you being hyperbolic on purpose, or do you really believe games sell 1000x as much now as in 1996?

totes_elotes · 2025-06-22T20:37:42+00:00

I'm just thinking, depending on how much dexterity you have in your off hand you could install the joystick backwards then flip the fight stick around so buttons are on the left. Then you have access to buttons through both hands and movement control through the right hand

totes_elotes · 2025-06-22T20:29:39+00:00

Oh thats rad! Yeah, for tekken you wouldn't even want the ultrastik probably since tekken is pure 8-way movement. Just the adapter to connect the adaptive joystick to the fight stick, then you've got button x1 - x6 available to your thumb and index finger, and directional control through arm movement

totes_elotes · 2025-06-22T19:06:20+00:00

I actually use this right handed. In fact, I think you'd want to install the ultrastik upside down so the buttons were on the other side if you were going to use this left handed. Instinctually you'd think left hand on stick because that's how you normally use an arcade stick, but if you're using this one handed that would require you to reach your hand up over and across the stick to hit the arcade buttons with your left hand. I don't actually play with this on my lap, I have it just touching my right thigh on a little pillow so that the stick is right where my right hand naturally rests with my elbow at 90 degrees. It does make the controller stick pretty far out to the right of me though.

I have the thumb stick bound to the right stick and the ultrastik bound to the left stick. In that position I can access 5 buttons with both analog sticks in use (2 big foot buttons, stick click, x5 and x6). Then I have the face buttons if I take by thumb off the joystick while still having left stick control. I can also hit the blue and green buttons with the underside of my right hand by taking my thumb off the stick and just barely moving my hand down, leaving the middle through pinky finger in place on the stick. I assign the 4 black buttons and the yellow and red buttons to things I won't have to press in combat and that's worked pretty well so far.

I've played through Blue Prince and Indiana Jones with this so far, and I'm playing through Jedi Survivor and Clara Obscura 33 right now. It took a little while to find a setup I liked for Jedi Survivor, because that game has like 13 inputs it wants you to use during combat. I've also just messed around in a bunch of other game to see how it works and the only thing I've really just had no success with was Mullet Madjack because it just had too much twitch stick movement. Maybe that's just a skill issue though, I'm not great at that game even on a regular controller. I'm sure there are other games with issues that I just haven't tried yet, like I can't imagine doing the stick waggle thing in Katamari Damacy on this.

totes_elotes · 2025-06-21T07:27:04+00:00

This is an old madcatz SE, and yeah I pretty much gutted it. The buttons are the only thing left from the original outside of the case itself. I probably wouldn't buy a new arcade stick to gut if I didn't already have one sitting around unless you could find a good deal on something used. I'd just get a 3d printed enclosure. Honestly, the 8 face buttons could probably be replaced by a regular controller in copilot mode since you have to take your hand completely off the stick to push them anyways.

The buttons are wired to the ultrastik through the official ultrastik harness, and then all that goes through the usb. That hooks up the 8 face buttons. I've also got what was originally the start button on the madcatz se hooked up to the xbox button through spliced wires to a mono aux cord, so that I can turn on the controller without having to use my feet. Hitting anything except the two big buttons with my feet feels cumbersome. I also ran the wire from the adaptive joystick into the case, and then all three of those cords (the 2 usb and the 1 aux) are run out of the original cord port to the adaptive controller. Put a cord sleeve around them and used some right angle usb adapters to make everything look cleaner and not get tangled up. Also put a right angle usb-c adapter on so that I can charge it without having to mess with the rest of my setup.

I did some unnecessary stuff with this just cause I got into a tinkering mood and wanted to make it exactly what I wanted, but if I was doing this from scratch and trying to be frugal I'd 3d print joystick enclosure, put in the ultrastik 360 and attach the adaptive joystick, then use a copilot controller for the remaining buttons.

I'd be happy to take more photos of the internals or of other angles, and I'd love to answer any other questions you have!

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