2 Button Games

	. Divekick Dave Lang. Best 2 button fighting game on the market!
	. Super Hexagon Spent 27 hours in this game. Still great to come back to.
	. One Finger Death Punch Fantastic game with lots of content. Wish it had Steam save cloud support!
	. Kung Fury: Street Rage Adds new gameplay mechanics to the 2 button formula from One Finger Death Punch. Very challenging but fun!
	. Pinball FX2 Pinball is awesome. Original tables that are based on existing IPs like Star Wars, The Walking Dead, different cartoons like Archer, South Park and a whole lot more!
	. The Pinball Arcade Pinball is awesome. Based on real tables. Pick your poison!
	. Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat Never played it but this is probably a 2 button game right?

As a followup to my 2 button Games list, I was looking for an alternate way to play them. Since the Divekick controller unfortunately was never commercially available, I had to look for other methods to get my 2 button controller fix.

I was inspired by this video by Nick Robinson who used Gamecube Bongos to play One Finger Death Punch.

I considered buying the bongos but I ended up getting a cheap 10 dollar usb Drum Pad from China instead.

Turns out you just can't jam the usb cable into the usb port and expect it to work as a controller, whoops! I ended up setting an overly elaborate daisychain of no less than 5 programs to get it to work, but it works, so yay!

If you want the cliffnotes version on how to install this thing, I'll give it to you because I sure as hell didn't find any instructions for it on the internet!

Cliffnotes on how to get the USB Drum Pads to work as a controller

The first thing you do is install a program called USB2MIDI, which is a program specifically made for the usb drumpads to convert the input from them to MIDI signals.

Then you need to download a program called LoopBe1 which is a virtual MIDI driver. It allows programs that use MIDI signals to talk with eachother without actually needed a physical MIDI inport.

Afterwards you need to install a program called Bome's Midi Translator Classic which is able to convert MIDI signals to keystrokes. (Cool right?!) Unfortunately this won't be enough for most games since the keystrokes need to be delivered at a low enough system level (I'm not sure of the details).

Fortunately there is one program that is able to do that! Autohotkey! This ended up being a fairly roundabout way to do things. I used keyboard keys as hotkeys for other keyboard keys. e.g. Numpad1 ended up being a hotkey for the "left arrow", Numpad2 ended up being a hotkey for the "right arrow". You can't use the left arrow key as the hotkey for the left arrow key because of... reasons.

Finally, the most important thing... Bongo sounds! Google is your friend for finding those sounds, there are plenty of free ones out there! But how do you get those sounds out of the drumpad? Well, there is this awesome program called Soundplant which turns your keyboard into a music delivering device. I ended up binding the bongo sounds to my arrow keys and voila presto! Bongos! (Make sure to switch "background key input" on though which is situated in the middle top of the program).

After all that's setup, time to play! I had a fun time playing One Finger Death Punch, Kung Fury: Street Rage and Divekick with it! (Super Hexagon not so much!)

I also made some videos, showcasing some gameplay, enjoy!

Drumpad Game Videos