Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by nosioptar 9 days ago
I know they're pretty standard controls, but I would suggest letting users remap keys.

Enter is off by itself, so you have to move a hand to press start. Switching to space would solve that.

(I prefer wasd for arrows, and h/j for b/a with y/u or u/I for start/select, but I think most b̵r̵a̵i̵n̵ ̵d̵a̵m̵a̵g̵e̵d̵ right handed people prefer arrows.)

1 comments

I'm left-handed and I prefer ZX for AB and arrows for the D-pad. Which is actually the mirror of how the real Gameboy Advance was laid out.

...Why is the D-pad always on the left on all of the controllers/handhelds anyhow, and the buttons on the right? After all, they're aimed mainly at the right-handed people, right?

The story I heard was that early arcade games had the joystick on the right, and switched to the left to make it a bit harder so they'd make more money.

Another reason I prefer wasd is I mainly use laptops, they always have tiny arrow keys.