• bisby@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Stick drift isn’t when the sticks fail to recenter (which is what this would help with).

    Stick drift is when the electrical contacts inside the stick change over time and as a result the electrical signal changes over time. A perfectly centered stick might have the same signal as slightly off to the side. (Which this wouldn’t help with)

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      11 days ago

      It can be pretty easy to get up a second-hand console cheap, free, and/or as a gift.

      Have you ever seen how much good/working stuff people throw away? If you’re a little bright, you can get people to pay you to haul their “junk” away.

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        11 days ago

        definitely more common now at least in my area. When I was a kid goodwill and value village were charging $40 for an old beat up snes or n64 and that was the whole clothes budget for me and my three siblings.

        Friend ended up giving me a gamecube in middle school and that was my first console.

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    11 days ago

    Although it does remind me of grinding to level up familiars in Castlevania SotN on OG PlayStation.

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    11 days ago

    I must say, I must have gotten lucky for years while gaming because I had never experienced stick drift and only heard of it in the last few years.

    Broken buttons, that I did experience.