More than 30 years ago, Nintendo launched a “Power Gloves” controller with a red and white machine. Although it was very popular at the time, the sales of games that were difficult to control and matched were not good. This product was also discontinued a year after its release. . But recently, some foreign players have successfully connected this glove to operate the Switch to play “Mario Kart Live Home Circuit”!
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Foreign players transformed Nintendo’s “Power Gloves” to successfully operate Switch’s “Mario Kart Live Home Circuit”
In addition to using the game handle, playing games through the somatosensory operation is another option. In fact, as early as 1989, Nintendo launched a game controller “Power Glove” with a red and white machine. Although it is a pioneer product of the somatosensory controller, the two games that were matched with it that year did not sell well, and the power glove is not easy to control. It also made it discontinued after only one year of sale.
With the evolution of the times, the selection of VR games has become more and more abundant in recent years. Niles Mitchell, a foreign player, shared on his YouTube channel a piece of “Mario Kart Live Home Speedway” using “Power Gloves” to control the Nintendo Switch. An augmented reality racing game for the Switch platform!
Originally, the player played in augmented reality on the host through the physical remote control car and camera lens, and he planned to use this more than 30-year-old antique to control the vehicle. It is also curious what the scene will be.
So how do you make the “Power Gloves” connect to the Switch to control the game? In his video, Niles Mitchell first uses the USB NES RetroPort v2 and Titan One:
The main purpose is to use these two little things with the power gloves to achieve the purpose of connection:
In addition, considering that the USB NES RetroPort v2 was used in CRT TVs in the past, but of course they are all LCD TVs now, so he also put a wooden frame in front to fix it, and also calibrated before connecting so that the power gloves can be correct control the direction.
Then test the direction control of other games first, you can see that the protagonist on the screen will move with the direction of his hand:
After testing the movement, it’s time to play Mario Kart Live Home Circuit with the Power Gloves! It can be seen that the Mario racing car on the TV screen turns with the direction of his hand swing, and the picture-in-picture in the lower right corner of the screen can see the moving process of the vehicle at home.
In addition to turning left, the vehicle also turns right when he swings his hand to the right. But to be honest, it’s quite tiring to play racing like this, because the arms have to be held in the air for a long time. Maybe you can also play racing as a sports?
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We have also introduced before that some players make DualSense modification kits by 3D printing, so as to realize the super god modification of the DuelSense controller with one hand (click me to read the article). At that time, this modification kit could not only control the direction, but also integrate the game control buttons into a mode that can be operated with one and a few. If you are skilled, you can even play two characters at the same time.
▲ Image source: Akaki Kuumeri (YouTube)
Further reading:
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