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Accessible Gaming, switch access, accessible gaming history. Bits and bobs.

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Very enjoyable one-button / one-switch game PinBol from the brilliant Sensory Apphouse:

switchgaming.blogspot.com/2025/10/pinb...
PinBol in gold lettering. A green circle at the top with dotted aim line, with three blue balls firing out against the wall down towards the various red, yellow and green simple shapes below, all with various numbers inside them.
October 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Can't complete the update. If your Dualsense wireless controller is turned off, press the PS button. OK. Error CE-102175-6.
September 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Worrying from Sony... Are they about to kill off all alternative accessible input devices / wired controllers that are not officially approved?

Will that be "Gaming that is accessible for all"?
PS5 front-end page marked: "Discover Accessibility... Gaming that is accessible for all". A grid of 5x2 boxes with various games. In the background an array of symbols, icnluding for deafness, sign-language, blindness and vision impariment and a wheelchair symbol. PS5 alert: Dualsense Wireless Controller Device Software. A new version of the Dualsense wireless controller device software is available. This update will be quick and your console won't need to restart. Some features might not work properly if you don't update ot the latest controller device software. To update later go to Settings, Accessories, Controller General, Dualsense Wireless Controller Device Software. Two buttons at the bottom. Update Now (which will fail for some controllers) or Notify After 24 Hours.
September 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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switchgaming.blogspot.com/2025/07/neur...

Fascinating updates on Neuralink progress.
Two disabled men playing Call of Duty with their minds.
July 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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micro:bit foundation looking for young people who are interested in more accessible ways to code. Can you help?

switchgaming.blogspot.com/2025/06/help...

#dev #a11y
A pixellated icon of a sand-timer, down to the last grains. Text reads, Only 2 weeks left to make digital learning more accessible. micro:bit.
June 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Nice one! Hope they include alternative play modes, as that twin mouse mode looks impossible to access for some who'd no doubt love to play this.

Also reminds me of the old International Soccer hack. Wheelchair 'Murderball' Rugby next?
Commodore 64 era game. Team of blue wheelchair users on a football pitch, waiting to kick-off against an opposing red wheelchair user team.
April 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Nintendo Switch 2: Wheelchair Basketball - using twin mice controllers. Hope they're offering alternative ways to play, as access wise, they look impossible for some.

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Nintendo Switch 2: Wheelchair basketball, played using 2x Joycons as mice controllers.
April 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Life is 1 Credit and JeSU (Japan eSports Union): switchgaming.blogspot.com/2025/03/life...

Some superb work continuing over in Japan for accessible gaming.
Street Fighter being played at a large eSports event. A player with breathing aparatus and a highly custom controller under their hands plays, flanked by others avidly following the battle.
March 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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And agreed on the split controllers. Always liked having these in the tool kit, and similar.
HORI Separate controller. PS2 style joypad, with a join in the middle. Possible to play standard, split or one-hand.
March 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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I think sometimes there's no need to reinvent the wheel. This really addresses the pdp One Hand Controller long being out of stock, and improves upon it with the optional toppers and extra buttons. The close alternative was hacked Wii nunchuks at a far higher price/time to make.
Black curved nunchuk like controller with two forefinger buttons at the front, and on the top a single thumb-stick. Top down view of a pdp black nunchuk controller. Possibly a mock-up.
March 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Christy Brown 1950s Electronic Assistive Technology (IBM Electromatic): switchgaming.blogspot.com/2025/02/down...
Christy Brown's view of his IBM Electric Typewriter, which he's using with the cover-plate off, typing with his left foot in 1962.
February 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Sorry this is upside down now... This was the page, but it's a remake of my scrawled writing.
Namco targets the Disabled. Namco is working with Japan's ministry of health to bring gaming to two new markets - the physically challenged and the elderly. The firm is releasing a series of PS2 peripherals designed for people with physical disabilities. The controllers can be operated with a single finger press, and feature symbols corresponding to the buttons on the standard PS2 joypad. Namco hopes to release the range in Japan next year.
February 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Oh, (sorry this is a bit of a blurt), this is surely what they were talking about in the Digitiser item....
Blue upright cabinet with TV inside. A chair with arms in front. Either side of the arms are slanted lecturns with four Ablenet looking coloured switches mounted on thick square of Velcro, in a cross arrangement. I assume for up,down,left,right and the four Playstation shapes. Wires come out from the middoe.
February 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Namco had been making Japanese language AAC devices for Disabled people (communicators) since 1985 under the Namcot name. Here's them branching out to the Anglosphere, with Pac-Man branding....
February 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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...and a few years later, I saw Namco had made this. Not saying they copied me, and if they had, I don't care anyway.
February 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Accessible Gaming: Study Participants Wanted. Linked to players needing aim-assist and slower games....

switchgaming.blogspot.com/2025/02/stud...
A flyer titled Study Participants Wanted. It reads: Hello, I’m Oliver, an undergraduate student from Falmouth University, I’m looking for participants to help with a study on accessibility in gaming. The study focuses on how effective automatically adjusting “Game Speed” and “Aim Assist” is in creating a personalized accessible experience. A participant would need: A reliance on Game Speed and/or assistive aiming options to access games, A Windows PC capable of running simple 3D games, up to thirty minutes of time. If you’re interested, please email ob276765@falmouth.ac.uk or message oliver with an o on discord. Thank You.
February 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Use a wide array of accessible joysticks and gamepads with the HID Remapper v7 on a Sony Access Controller or Xbox Adaptive Controller.

The latest firmware update allows for all sorts of sticks to work now without having to reprogramme the unit: www.oneswitch.org.uk/art.php?id=369
An array of black and white joysticks and Sony Access Controllers all hooked up together through a black hexagonal HID Remapper v7 from OneSwitch.org.uk
January 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Great memory. Would love to see the broadcast again. You'll have seen this no doubt.
The Hairy Cornflake (right) with young women in tight clothing and knee high boots (left) bracing a Space Invaders II upright arcade game.
January 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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One button / one-switch odds and ends. Including the remarkable ABA games.
Short animation of a Konami Scramble tribute game with pink glowing scenery, and space ship hopping and dropping bombs and firing lasers at rockets and fuel depots.
December 23, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Two gamepads, 1x XAC, keyboard and foot switches to play Steam in Brazil: switchgaming.blogspot.com/2024/12/16th...
Point of View from Rodrigo, looking at a XAC interface on his lap, a gamepad in his left and gamepad in his right hand. Adaptive firmware buttons for his feet.
December 16, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Using two gamepads, one XAC and foot switches to play Steam games in Brazil...

switchgaming.blogspot.com/2024/12/16th...
Point of View from Rodrigo, looking at a XAC interface on his lap, a gamepad in his left and gamepad in his right hand. Adaptive firmware buttons for his feet.
December 16, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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One-button accessible gaming in 1981 on the ZX81: switchgaming.blogspot.com/search?q=zx81
You have 9 pence. Press N/L to play (new line). Slot reels read 4.5.3. Lucky 7 Jackpot, with winning tray at the bottom, and playing arm to the right. All in chunky black and white graphics. Close up on a CRT TV of J.K. Greye's Asteroids from 1981 for the ZX81
December 10, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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The Colin McDonnell Technology Room at William Merritt. Unveiled December 2024: switchgaming.blogspot.com/2024/12/8th-...
The Colin McDonnell Technology Room plaque. Image of people gathered around the edges of the Colin McDonnell Technology Room. Full of accessible gaming and leisure technology.
December 8, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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Wrestle Jump 2 with keyboard update to make easier for switch users to play: switchgaming.blogspot.com/2024/12/3rd-...
Two cartoon Mexican wrestlers in mid air about to do battle on a windy sandy hillock. Text reads, Wrestle!. Five empty stars on either side of the screen at the top. Big round UP arrow in a blue button bottom left of screen.
December 3, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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This was great on the Atari VCS for a few years until people stopped bothering making games that reponded to it.
Atari VCS close up of some of the console switches, including TV type, where the toggle switch can be in colour or black and white mode.
November 29, 2024 at 12:31 PM