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how come the dreamcast controllers have what appears to be an actual dpad? that was during the time period nintendo had a patent on dpads--both the playstation (before the dreamcast) and the xbox (after it) had to make compromises on their dpads to avoid the patent
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@Felthry maybe they just paid for the license? afaik the xbox d-pad is like that because they wanted to make it easier to play games like fighters where you'd need to roll and hit diagonals

@noiob I dunno, was nintendo willing to license out the technology? We hadn't heard of anyone else paying for a license, and though sega was on their last legs by then they were historically nintendo's main competitor
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@Felthry I mean with the gamecube they ended up being their greatest ally

@noiob How do you mean? Just all the dreamcast games that got rereleased on gamecube?
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