WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:06.400 when it comes to human bodies there's no such thing as 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:09.840 normal so how do you design something like 00:00:07.279 --> 00:00:15.920 a game controller that's meant to offer the highest performance possible to as 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:18.320 many people as possible do you just kind of 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:24.160 take the average well actually yeah that happens pretty often but if 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:27.680 you do that you're naturally going to end up with a design that a lot of 00:00:26.080 --> 00:00:32.880 people really like i'm particularly fond of this one but 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:36.480 that others simply cannot use it all thankfully microsoft has given us 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:43.280 another option the xbox adaptive controller is not 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:49.039 specifically designed for anyone so that it can be used by everyone 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:52.960 the thermaltake a500 aluminum mid tower case features a minimalistic design 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:57.520 brushed aluminum panels for a clean uninterrupted look hinged tempered glass 00:00:55.120 --> 00:01:02.239 Windows on both sides and compatibility for radiators of up to 420 millimeters 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:12.159 at the front get it today at the link in the video description 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:19.280 okay so here i am i've got my adaptive controller and i'm connected to my xbox 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:24.240 one it's got wireless capabilities but it also comes with a 9 foot usb cable 00:01:21.759 --> 00:01:29.759 that can plug into this usb type-c port that is also used for charging so the 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:36.720 big d-pad here is for navigation and then i also have the menu view and xbox 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:37.600 buttons up here as usual but then 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:42.560 like other than that there's not really a lot 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:46.720 going on here i mean i've got these two big black buttons here that are labeled 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:50.880 a and b which actually have 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:56.960 like pretty nice tactile feedback and click reasonably consistently no matter 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:58.799 where you press them but like 00:01:56.960 --> 00:02:03.280 so what am i expected to play with just two buttons and a d-pad tetris 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:09.440 blades of steel this is like a nest layout 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:10.959 okay here we go 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:17.360 okay cool so this is sort of usable i've got my 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:21.280 accelerator i've got my break i've got oh shoot 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:26.640 but there's some issues like press y to rewind i don't have that i can't press 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:31.440 hand brake or like look behind me or 00:02:28.720 --> 00:02:36.160 or really much of anything so then odds are you'll want a few more buttons than 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:41.200 this luckily microsoft has given us a few options the easiest of which is 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:47.440 called copilot this actually lets you use your adaptive controller and a 00:02:44.239 --> 00:02:49.599 conventional xbox controller together as 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:54.879 one player so for example if you have more mobility on one side than the other 00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:58.959 then you can use a mixed grip or you can even have a friend operate one 00:02:56.640 --> 00:03:04.640 controller while you operate the other one okay so uh here we go then the 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:08.879 joystick so i'll steer yeah and then the gas i'm gonna do gas and braking so then 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:12.720 you'd be able to rewind if i was like yo i want to i want to see that again 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:16.800 oh that's pretty cool running hot we're going no no i got this 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:21.120 i got this i got you fam like that's a truck yeah whatever screw these guys 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:25.440 oh so that's actually pretty cool 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:28.720 but the real power of the adaptive controller comes 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:32.400 here each of these three and a half 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:37.680 millimeter ports back here corresponds to a button that you would 00:03:35.040 --> 00:03:41.200 find on a conventional xbox controller and there are actually two extra ones 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:46.959 that are confusingly labeled as x1 and x2 so you 00:03:44.799 --> 00:03:54.480 end up with the x the x1 the x2 and the x box 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:59.120 uh let me tell you no one needs that many 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:05.680 x's but i don't know then again this was designed by the same people what brung 00:04:00.799 --> 00:04:06.560 you xbox xbox 360 and xbox 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:11.439 one anyway here's how it works if i want to 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:15.120 be able to press y i just plug in another switch 00:04:12.799 --> 00:04:19.519 like for example this one the adaptive controller works seamlessly with most 00:04:17.280 --> 00:04:23.199 input devices that have this three and a half millimeter connection type and 00:04:21.359 --> 00:04:27.600 that's really important because there is such a wide range of ability within the 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:32.639 gaming community and the perfect setup for you might not be the perfect setup 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:37.040 for the next person so where's my why there it is 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:40.880 cool so let's take a look then through a handful of the different switch types 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:45.840 that you could use to build your unique setup so this one right here 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:49.759 is kind of your basic buddy button in gator green 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:54.000 so we've also got though this pillow button this one's cool so it's actually 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:59.840 cushioned to make it comfortable to press with your head or with your cheek 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:03.840 you can actually hear it actuate there we've also got this guy right here this 00:05:01.840 --> 00:05:08.000 is called a wobble switch and you can activate it a couple of different ways 00:05:05.520 --> 00:05:13.680 so you can swipe in any of four directions or press it down 00:05:11.280 --> 00:05:17.039 and this one right here is an ultra light switch is actually designed to be 00:05:15.520 --> 00:05:20.720 worn and you can see here it requires very little 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:24.080 force to actuate so if you had it on the back of your finger or something and you 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:28.400 pushed against something you would activate it quite easily then there's 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:32.320 the little candy corn proximity sensor which can be activated without even 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:36.880 actually touching it just by getting very very close 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:41.680 finally this guy right here is a foot pedal that's actually typically marketed 00:05:38.880 --> 00:05:46.320 towards transcribers but see i mentioned this before it does work 00:05:44.320 --> 00:05:51.680 with our adaptive controller because it uses exactly the same connector okay so 00:05:49.919 --> 00:05:56.720 i've got all my different options here i guess i'm gonna 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:58.960 start playing some mortal kombat xl okay 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:03.520 so if i don't have any accessories at all uh all i pretty much have is 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:08.720 punch other more different punch 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:09.919 forward back jump and crouch 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:15.520 which is clearly well i don't know i'm doing right 00:06:13.520 --> 00:06:18.720 but it's not going to get me too far now i'm just sticking with the uppercut 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:23.120 boom okay so this is enough to beat an easy 00:06:20.960 --> 00:06:26.080 computer player especially with you know remapping these two buttons to the you 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:34.160 know two things you want to do the most often but i can't even block so it's obviously 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:36.080 not ideal now let's kick it up a notch 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:40.000 starting with a foot pedal so i want this on what why 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:45.600 okay i've got this plugged in but like now where do i even put it uh okay let's 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:50.560 go with here man this is crazy like i'm all of a 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.520 sudden realizing just how many buttons there are 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:57.280 on an xbox controller like even if i only give myself 00:06:55.199 --> 00:07:01.680 four buttons here the adaptive controller is a hundred bucks the foot 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:06.080 pedal is 25 and the buddy button is another 65 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:11.280 so we're at just shy of 200 and we still haven't even a 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:16.160 mounted all of this stuff or b attached enough buttons to issue even 00:07:13.280 --> 00:07:20.880 half of the total number of commands fortunately though we don't have to add 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:26.319 one button at a time so the adaptive controller also has usb ports on both 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:31.199 the left and the right hand side so i could attach something like this which 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:37.120 is basically like a an xbox compatible 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:39.199 wii nunchuck controller or get this you 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:43.599 can also use a device that you already have lying around like this joystick 00:07:41.520 --> 00:07:47.919 which could provide both directional movement 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:48.880 and check this out a whole whack ton of 00:07:47.919 --> 00:07:53.360 buttons alright so we've kind of got all the ingredients 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:57.520 now but this is where things get a little bit 00:07:55.280 --> 00:08:03.039 more complicated than what i would consider to be ideal so take the one 00:08:00.479 --> 00:08:07.840 hand joystick for instance here we go it's got some shoulder 00:08:05.280 --> 00:08:12.080 buttons and when you click the joystick you can actually switch layers so that 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:15.280 the shoulders have secondary functions not bad for 20 bucks 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:20.240 but how do you remap it well instead of the 00:08:17.840 --> 00:08:24.479 joystick appearing as its own object in the accessories app you actually have to 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:28.639 program it through the adaptive controller 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:33.760 so doing this requires knowing that when you plug the joystick in the adaptive 00:08:31.039 --> 00:08:39.519 controller assigns certain buttons to it so these are x1 and x2 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:46.880 so changing these buttons then affects the usb device but also any switches 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:49.519 that you plug into the x1 and x2 ports 00:08:46.880 --> 00:08:52.959 over here due to that same limitation that we discussed earlier 00:08:51.839 --> 00:08:58.399 then stay with me here guys if you plug the joystick into the other 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:05.519 side it actually doesn't get mapped to x1 and 00:09:00.959 --> 00:09:06.880 x2 it gets mapped to view and menu now 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:10.959 so it didn't take us too long to figure 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:14.399 this out through a combination of checking the manual and trial and error 00:09:13.040 --> 00:09:18.240 since there's only a couple of buttons on this thing but then 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:23.120 hold on a minute what about my other random joystick 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:26.880 which has a bunch of buttons oof 00:09:24.560 --> 00:09:32.160 all right so the first thing to note is that the adaptive controller only 00:09:28.560 --> 00:09:35.680 supports eight buttons per usb device so 00:09:32.160 --> 00:09:38.399 step one is to identify which of the 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:40.480 more than eight buttons are even being used 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:45.120 then i guess what you'll have to do is just 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:51.040 hop into a game that you're really familiar with grab a pen and paper and then start to 00:09:48.880 --> 00:09:54.240 map out what the eight buttons do when your joystick is plugged into the left 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:57.839 and then repeat the whole process again when it's 00:09:56.399 --> 00:10:02.720 plugged into the right also if you don't like which eight 00:10:00.959 --> 00:10:07.360 buttons the adaptive controller decided to utilize like for example what if i 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:12.560 only wanted to use these buttons down here instead of these ones up here 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:15.839 well as far as i can tell you just 00:10:13.839 --> 00:10:21.200 don't get a choice one other word of caution too if you're 00:10:18.079 --> 00:10:23.200 using a high powered device like ah one 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:26.959 of these mouth mice you're going to need to make sure that you plug your adaptive 00:10:24.959 --> 00:10:32.000 controller into the wall so it has enough juice both for itself and any 00:10:29.680 --> 00:10:37.440 connected accessories now microsoft wants twenty dollars for this adapter in 00:10:34.160 --> 00:10:39.120 their store but they also helpfully 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:44.240 clearly labeled the back so you could just use any five volt two amp adapter 00:10:41.839 --> 00:10:49.200 so in conclusion then there is definitely some room to improve 00:10:47.040 --> 00:10:51.279 the user friendliness of the adaptive controller 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:56.880 but honestly the main reason that we made this video 00:10:54.560 --> 00:11:00.880 wasn't to do an in-depth review of it necessarily but rather to bring a little 00:10:59.040 --> 00:11:05.519 bit more attention to how for all their flaws 00:11:02.640 --> 00:11:09.440 amazing it was that microsoft spent both the engineering time and the money to 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:13.519 make this thing in spite of the hundred dollar price 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:17.600 being higher than a standard controller i can pretty much guarantee you that 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:22.160 microsoft is never going to break even on this thing let alone turn a profit so 00:11:20.560 --> 00:11:26.240 the only conclusion other than that okay the cynical among 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:31.760 you might assume they did it just for the good pr but i'm not sure if i buy 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:37.440 that i think i think it's fair to say that if nothing else someone or 00:11:34.800 --> 00:11:42.480 someone's over there worked really hard on this thing so that they could open up 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:44.640 new possibilities for many many xbox 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:49.279 and pc gamers because the whole thing also works with Windows who haven't 00:11:46.640 --> 00:11:54.320 always had many good options no it's not perfect and yes a fully 00:11:52.079 --> 00:11:59.200 kitted out setup can end up with the same kind of ludicrous price tag that 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:01.920 many other pieces of accessibility equipment suffer from 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.600 but this is still a giant 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