Select button

>select button
>doesn't select anything ever

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>start button
>doesn't start the game, actually pauses it

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>X is cancel
>O is accept
What sort of backwards-ass logic is that?

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

Is this a Boku no Pico thread? If not, fuck off.

smug shota boys need to take over

what the fuck, i-is that what it was used for back in the days?

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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.

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.

>press select to start your game
>every other button deletes your progress
why do games do this

Why did the DS bring back thr select button? I really cant think of any uses that button served in almost all DS and 3ds games

Deku is made for abuse

are you a retard or a zoomer? all NES games used select like that
the select button became outdated and then repurposed

Every Nintendo console has a Select button outside the Gamecube. It is more the DS still keeping the Select button rather than bringing it back. The GBA had Select, after all.

Relic of a bygone era.
Good times.

They stopped after the snes, the n64 didnt have a select button

It's kind of a holdover from the days when controllers weren't standard. They'd have a joystick, maybe a numberpad, and they'd have a select button and a start button so that you could make selections and begin the game. It wasn't clear what numbers you'd need to hit to move a cursor around the screen, so rather than confuse people with that, there was just a dedicated button for turning the game on.

When the NES first came out, Nintendo did basically the same thing. However, people looking at the screen and looking at the clear up-down-left-right options on their controller were trying to use up and down to make selections. So they just changed it to allow up and down to make the selections as well. Basically the same for Start/A making a selection. And then, the original use of Start and Select fell out of practice once game consoles had basically trained people to use the d-pad for movement around the game and the confirm button to make all selections.

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Have straight sex

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To be backwards compatible with GBA

And you press it again to start the game.
checkmate starthiests.

That was very informative thank you

Normal logic.

>cross something out
>okay gesture
Retard.

Family fued

>select button's replaced with a shitty gimmicky touchpad

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thanks grandpa :)

>Doug button
>it Dougs

Cute hair. Whats her name?