Fallout 3 ...With an NES controller!

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Published on March 11, 2025 2:25:18 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDGOuPT3YS8

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Fallout 3 (2008)

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Finally returning to this project, and this one I was wanting to do for awhile too. Definitely the most complex one so far. This was using Steam's built in controller input, it has a lot more options than I expected, but it was still a challenge finding a setup for this game.

Making it see the NES controller as an Xbox 360 controller was definitely the way to go, initially I went with mouse and keyboard and moving the mouse with the dpad, but that got tricky with certain screens. Then I remembered Xbox 360 buttons have multiple functions in this game. So we have:

A = A (Activate: open doors, pickup stuff etc.)
B = RT (RT does two things, it attacks but also, lets you switch tabs in the Pip-Boy, the latter is hardcoded and cannot be changed, so RT was needed)
Start = B (B does two things, it opens the Pip-Boy, but also acts as back/cancel, while Pip-Boy can be remapped, back/cancel cannot, and it allows me to exit terminals, trading with merchants, etc.)
Select = X (this is needed for the "You're Smart!" book at the beginning, otherwise you'll be stuck, levelling up, confirming a trade with merchants). In addition, holding Select changes what the dpad does. In Steam, you can assign two things to a button, in this case a regular press is X, and a Long Press activates what I call "camera mode", when X is released after a Long Press, it exits "camera mode".
Dpad (normal) = Left Stick Up (move forwards), Left Stick Down (move backwards), Right Stick Left (turn left), Right Stick Right (turn right)
Dpad (holding Select) = Right Stick Up (look upwards), Right Stick Down (look downwards), Left Stick Left (strafe left), Left Stick Right (strafe right), the strafing I don't really you, but we need Left Stick left/right to move between menus in the Pip-Boy.

So yeah, like I said, most complex game yet.

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