How the N64 Rumble Pak changed everything
Added 2024-03-18 11:46:00 +0000 UTCA deep dive into the Nintendo 64 Rumble Pak - an addon device that added force feedback vibration to the player. in 1997 this was the very first rumble device introduced into video games. In today's episode we look closely at the Rumble Pak and even build a homebrew application to test its features.
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(And the suspenseful rumbling with the neon psychological horror cube had me cracking up)
Don Rowe
2024-03-18 21:09:15 +0000 UTCAdded in a YT comment, but I figure I'd put it in the cool kids' club here, too: When you say that developers played tricks with timing, do you mean pulse width modulation? If so, what kind of period width and duty cycle resolution could you get out of it? Are you able to issue calls to the Rumble Pak asynchronously, or is it one message per frame (or whatever it is interlaced) of gameplay?
Don Rowe
2024-03-18 21:07:32 +0000 UTC
