>select button
>doesn't select anything ever
Select button
Kevin Barnes
Parker Evans
>start button
>doesn't start the game, actually pauses it
Samuel Carter
>X is cancel
>O is accept
What sort of backwards-ass logic is that?
Mason Robinson
In SMB you had to use the select button to select 1player or 2player
Same with Zelda and which file you wanted to play on
Jaxson Brooks
Is this a Boku no Pico thread? If not, fuck off.
Aiden Green
smug shota boys need to take over
Gabriel Lewis
what the fuck, i-is that what it was used for back in the days?
Aiden Baker
The fuck was up with this? They weren't the only games that did this too. Really ass backwards to have a dedicated button that is only used for navigating 2 options at the start of the game.
Tyler Anderson
Select originally was used to choose options from the main menu, with Start making the choice. However, people got annoyed that they couldn't just use the directional buttons for making these changes and pressing the general confirm button (usually A) to make the selection. So more and more games let you select options with directional pads and confirm with the A button. And the more that happened, the less developers remembered what Start/Select were used for and they eventually stopped using them for anything.
Adrian Hughes
>press select to start your game
>every other button deletes your progress
why do games do this