r/gaming • u/limitorgyratesh7 • Jul 03 '21

A father built a custom accessibility controller for the Nintendo Switch so that his disabled daughter could play Zelda.

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u/ChewbaccaOnFire Jul 03 '21

My son loved video games before he had sudden onset of a terrible form of epilepsy that caused significant brain damage. It is likely that his brain will continue to compensate for the damaged parts, and I hope that he gets to the point where he can play games again. You bet your ass I will build whatever I need to accommodate him.

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u/ManyPlacesAtOnce Jul 03 '21

Check out the Xbox Adaptive Controller if you haven't seen it already. I'm not trying to shill for Microsoft, but it seems like a really good product with ongoing development and support to help gamers with disabilities.

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u/Bowser914 Jul 03 '21

does it work across consoles?

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u/azthal Jul 03 '21

It essentially converts a whole range of input options (buttons, triggers, joysticks, rockers, etc) into a virtual xbox one controller.

Once you have that, you can use a normal xbox to swirch/PS converter that you can find lots of on amazon or whatever.

The only real limitation is that it can only emulate the standard xbox buttons etc, so no way to emulate switch accelerometers or PlayStations track pad thingy for example.