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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/1\/23051545\/fisher-price-toy-baby-gamepad-real-xbox-controller-rudeism-elden-ring<\/a>
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I never thought I\u2019d be writing about my baby\u2019s Fisher-Price gamepad<\/a> again, but here we go: a modder has turned the cheap tune-filled toy into a complete Xbox gamepad<\/a> with everything you\u2019d need to play Elden Ring. <\/em>And incredibly, he did so without losing any of the Fisher-Price Game & Learn Controller<\/a>\u2019s built-in sound effects \u2014 meaning you can now pair your Malenia run with such classic kiddie hits as \u201c1, 2, 3, 4, up goes your score!\u201d and \u201cOrange, purple, white and pink, green, red and blue, woohoo!\u201d<\/p>\n

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here’s the Fisher Price Xbox controller in action!<\/p>\n

let me know what games you’d like to see me play with it<\/p>\n

and thanks to @Wario64<\/a> for the off-hand joke that inspired me to make this happen pic.twitter.com\/3OETvcsEsI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rudeism (@rudeism) May 1, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

This may not be surprising if you\u2019ve heard the name Dylan \u201cRudeism\u201d Beck<\/a> before because this is actually one of the less<\/em> ambitious controller stunts the New Zealand native and Twitch streamer has pulled. He\u2019s the guy who beat Dark Souls III<\/em> with a single button \u201cMorse code\u201d controller<\/a>, built a motion-controlled lightsaber and Force power glove<\/a> for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, <\/em>and rigged up his own flap, waddle, and honk controls<\/a> for Untitled Goose Game<\/em>. You can see all of those in the tweets below:<\/p>\n

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Dark Souls 3 has been beaten with Morse code! <\/p>\n

19 bosses, 258,250 button presses. (DLC to come)<\/p>\n

And just because it can be beaten with one button doesn’t mean games like Dark Souls shouldn’t have accessibility & difficulty options! pic.twitter.com\/DporRqC15E<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rudeism (@rudeism) October 24, 2021<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

But Rudeism tells The Verge<\/em> that the new Fisher-Price mod is one of his favorite builds nonetheless, \u201cpurely due to how clean it looks.\u201d After some fiddling<\/a>, he was able to cram an entire Arduino Pro Micro clone in there, a two-axis joystick (since Fisher-Price\u2019s original \u201cjoystick\u201d was really just a button), and a few microswitches to turn the original\u2019s clicky-but-non-electric \u201cshoulder buttons\u201d into real buttons as well. <\/p>\n

All the original Fisher-Price buttons still work, though \u2014 right down to the Konami Code easter egg<\/a> \u2014 because he\u2019s got the Arduino set to piggyback off their inputs by soldering directly to the pre-existing board. So yeah, he\u2019s largely playing games with the actual Fisher-Price gamepad, not just using a Fisher-Price gamepad as a shell. You do have to plug it in, though: \u201cNot much space for batteries sadly,\u201d he says, since the Arduino is taking up that room.<\/p>\n

How does he get every Xbox button out of these limited controls, you might ask? Well, you can\u2019t get \u2018em all at once. But he did rig up the Fisher-Price slider as a mode selector that can let you have either a left or <\/em>right analog stick at any given moment as well as access to Start, Select, and Guide buttons on A, B, and C. The \u201cbumpers\u201d can be both bumpers and triggers all on their own because they\u2019ll press a different switch depending on whether you rock them left or right. <\/p>\n

Rudeism says it was a two-week backburner project that started out as a joke: deal hunter Wario64 tweeted<\/a> that the gamepad would be \u201cperfect for Elden Ring,\u201d and he decided to put that to the test. Unfortunately, there\u2019s no footage of Rudeism destroying bosses with the baby gamepad quite yet, but he says he\u2019s planning on beating the whole game this way. (He\u2019s also working on a YouTube build video if you want to try it, too). The total budget was $20, including the controller itself \u2014 but admittedly not the old 3D printer he used to make mounts to keep the joystick and switches in position.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll build one of these with my now-two-year-old\u2019s pad, but it is a joy to see this hunk of plastic and circuitry in the headlines once again.<\/p>\n