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u/AttackOficcr 3h ago

As long as you know the T is for trigger and B is for button/bumper that makes it easier for xbox.

Switch Pro really fucked me up with L, R, ZL, and ZR. When Z on the gamecube was the button located in front of the right trigger(R), and now ZL and ZR are the triggers behind the L and R buttons.

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u/realoctopod 2h ago

The first time I had to use L3 and R3 in a game I was very confused for a few seconds.

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u/ImDankest 1h ago

I was soft locked on a ps2 game as a kid because I never figured out what L3 was. I stopped playing that game

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u/jaxonya 1h ago

What game was it?

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u/ImDankest 25m ago

Honestly, I couldn't tell you. It was one of my earliest memories of playing my PS2. If was an open world type of game and I think it reminded me of a Spyro game. Couldn't tell you much about it as I seemed to have gave up during the tutorial as my 6 year old brain couldn't find the L3 and R3 buttons.

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u/juniper3411 1h ago

Me too lol

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u/powy_glazer 2h ago

I always assumed it means bottom and top, idk why. I grew up with PlayStation but briefly moved to PC gaming where I used an Xbox controller

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u/snappydragon4 2h ago

This was my thought too and the reason it always screwed me up, because I'd assume the bottom one is the one that's lower than the top making me press the trigger for rb and lb.

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u/s2Birds1Stone 2h ago

But LB is the top button and LT is below it

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u/satsuppi 1h ago

it should be L/R Buttom and L/R Top ffs

and im still struggling! lol

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u/randomguy301048 1h ago

When you think about it in context of the controllers besides gamecube it makes a bit more sense. Like the snes and n64 both use L and R buttons. The Z button on the n64 was a trigger as well and I believe the same for the wii.

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u/AttackOficcr 54m ago

N64 had a Z button on the back, wasn't a real trigger yet.

Wii was psychotic B button where a trigger would be on right hand, C and Z buttons on end of nunchuck. Wii classic controller had two versions I think, one with L, ZL, ZR, and R in a straight line across the top and one with the ZL and ZR being where triggers would be and the L and R above them as in the Switch Pro Controller.

It's worth noting that only the Gamecube had analog triggers that responded to partial triggers pulls(good for feathering the gas/brakes in racing games or lightly spraying water in Super Mario Sunshine).

Everything up to and including the Switch 2 has digital triggers which are no different than on/off buttons.

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u/FoxMeadow7 1h ago

Can be doubly confusing if a game also uses L and R for the analog stick ’buttons’ (though most games do use a shape for that thankfully).

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u/hotshot_02 2h ago

TIL it meant trigger and button, not top and bottom lmao 😭

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u/JamesJohnson975 2h ago

Congrats on discovering something new!