[Rudeism] loves playing Blizzard’s hit game Overwatch. He wanted to make his gaming experience a bit more realistic though. One of the characters is D.Va, who according to game lore is a member of the South Korean Mobile Exo-Force (MEKA). D.Va pilots her MEKA in game using two joysticks. Overwatch is a standard FPS with WASD and mouse controls, so the realism ends at the screen.
[Rudeism] didn’t let that stop him. He used two flight sticks to create the ultimate D.Va experience. [Twitch recording link – language warning] A commercial software package called Xpadder allowed him to map movements on the joystick to mouse and keystrokes. The left joystick maps to WASD, left shift, Q, and right click. The right stick corresponds to mouse movements, E, and left click.
This isn’t exactly the tank style steering we’re used to from classic mech games like Virtual-On, but it’s pretty good for a software solution. It makes us wonder what would be possible with a bit of hardware hacking – perhaps a Teensy handling the analog and button inputs.
People have been coming up with interesting ways to play video games for years. Check out this hack with the classic Microsoft Kinect, or these arcade hacks.
Via Reddit
xpadder is commerical software, you should link to some of the open source options for this like GlovePIE etc
I’d love to be wrong here, but to my knowledge GlovePIE is not open source.
xpadder is only $10 at http://xpadder.com/?lang=english&country=US
Wow, used software for a purpose it was intended for, what an awesome hack.
You could perhaps use a Teensy! But this guy didn’t.
Wow, used the comments section to post a negative remark. What an awesome comment.
This. What exactly was novel here? He didnt hack anything.
Ima install joymouse and blow minds.
Nothing to see here….. Other than someone still living in his mom’s basement….
We had a guy doing just that back in 1998 in my LAN group.
I miss the decent Lan games
Drinking and Doom HERETIC HEXEN
Drinking and Duke3d / Warcraft 2
Drinking and Quake with FVF
Drinking and Quake 2 / StarCraft / Diablo
Drinking and Good old CS 0.9 Beta with drivable vehicles 747 and other airport maps that disappeared
Drinking and Quake 3
Drinking and any game that would accept 66666666666666666 or 33333333333333 as the CD key
I see your group emphasized on the drinking part of the LAN party as well.
Lan parties are still fun- just hosted one the other weekend and played a bit of HL deathmatch, overwatch, and a couple silly games like golf with friends.
Most games used to let you assign whatever you wanted to joystick then anyway.
I used to use a Wingman Warrior in my right hand, and Gravis Phoenix in my right hand, to play Quake 1.
I was hoping for analog movement control at least. Maybe he could map to a virtual gamepad instead?
or breakout that current sticks poke around and make a custom USB interface from a PIC or ATmega with V-USB
WHERE ARE THE HACKS
D’Va is sooooo OVERPOWERED! POTG almost every game.