Reconfigurable video game controller

Details Reconfigurable video game controller Reconfigurable video game controller

1997-06-19

2000-06-06

Martin-Wallace, Valencia

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

Player-actuated control structure

345168, A63F 922

Patent

active

060711949

ABSTRACT:
A reconfigurable video game controller for use with a video game program running on a personal computer platform, wherein the controller may be reconfigured or reprogrammed directly by the user so that user-defined keycodes are obtained from a local memory and transmitted to the computer while playing the video game. The controller is reconfigured by selecting desired input switches and then entering keycodes via an attached computer keyboard while in a setup mode, and the keycodes and selected input switch codes are transmitted to the computer for display to the user under the supervision of a reconfiguration window program. The controller is also capable of storing local codes for use in controlling operation of the controller during the video game play mode. One type of local code is a delay code useful in controlling delay of individual keycode transmissions in a multi-keycode playback sequence. Another type of local code is a force-feedback code, which is useful in controlling force-feedback control circuitry associated with the input switches such that the user can program which types of force-feedback effects are to be implemented by the controller during game play.

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