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Tue 10/07/01 at 14:25
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Posts: 787
Control pads were meant to be utilised by the gamer,not become stale and un-used.The one button that is subject to this is the select button.....Lets be honest,who uses the damn thing.i for sure dont.It is so pointless to put it in,never gets used.Who here agress with me?....I wish Sony wouldnt put the rubber in my pad.......
Tue 10/07/01 at 14:25
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Control pads were meant to be utilised by the gamer,not become stale and un-used.The one button that is subject to this is the select button.....Lets be honest,who uses the damn thing.i for sure dont.It is so pointless to put it in,never gets used.Who here agress with me?....I wish Sony wouldnt put the rubber in my pad.......
Tue 10/07/01 at 14:28
"High polygon count"
Posts: 15,624
That depends on the games you play, doesn't it?

It's used in Onimusha to bring up the Options screen; Madden NFL 2001 uses it to call Timeouts.

I'm sure theer are many more uses in other games, but I can't think of them at the moment.

Answers on a postcard, please...
Tue 10/07/01 at 14:29
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"Eric The Half A Bee"
Posts: 5,347
I'm still trying to find out what Scroll Lock is still doing on Keyboards...

And what its for... ???
Tue 10/07/01 at 14:29
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Posts: 14,117
It brings up the rear view when playing KKK on the GBA.
Tue 10/07/01 at 14:29
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"not dead"
Posts: 11,145
Some games require less buttons than others.

Surely theres some gamesthat require you to use the 'select' button?

I know that it was handy in tons of NES and SNES games!

Mind you, if it wasn't there a different button would have done the same thing...
Tue 10/07/01 at 14:32
"High polygon count"
Posts: 15,624
Your Honour wrote:
> It brings up the rear view when playing KKK on the GBA.


Isn't 'KKK' a bad choice for a game name? Or is it just me?
Tue 10/07/01 at 14:38
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"not dead"
Posts: 11,145
That is a rather bad abbreviation...

Unless the game is really about the KKK, but we wouldn't expect that on a Nintendo console, that would be like Disney releasing porn...

Then if it was about the KKK, what does having an option to 'bring up the rear view' say about them?
Tue 10/07/01 at 14:41
"High polygon count"
Posts: 15,624
Meka_Dragon wrote:
> that would be like Disney releasing porn...

You mean 7-up *isn't* a film about Snow White and the seven dwarves? ;-p


> Then if it was about the KKK, what does having an option
> to 'bring up the rear view' say about them?

It says something which really shouldn't be discussed on these particular forums...
Tue 10/07/01 at 14:47
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Posts: 14,117
I just realised i actually got it wrong. KKK is Kuru Kuru Kurin, some stick game.

I meant Konami Krazy Racers, KKR.

Sorry.
Tue 10/07/01 at 14:56
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"not dead"
Posts: 11,145
So not the Klu Klux Racers then?

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