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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You could definitely play diablo 2 with controller with the right maping. The person who first introduced my mom to diablo 2 was actually a paraplegic man she was a home care nurse for. He didn't have enough motion to use keyboard and mouse properly but he did have just enough finger control that he could play by holding the mouse upside down in his hand and rolling the ball of the mouse with his thumb. That's practically a joystick at that point. Apparently he was also pretty damn good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's incredible. I happen to use a Logitech thumb-ball mouse, so I'm quite familiar with the concept. Never thought to use a conventional mouse upside down though; that's incredibly resourceful.

I don't know if you or anyone else here needs to see this, but this reminds me of Ben Heckendorn who makes custom accessibility controlers. He's also known for a bunch of stuff, including Bill Paxton Pinball, the Hand-held 2600, podcasts, YT videos, and more junk on his site.