Put a monkey in a ball (not an actual one, monkey clearly, the ball ought to be superb) and make a online game the place stated monkey, referred to as AiAI rolls round accumulating bananas round fiendishly tough programs and you’ve got the premise for one of many best-loved puzzle video games in gaming historical past.
Tremendous Monkey Ball is ace, all the time has been, and possibly all the time will probably be, and now with the newest model, Sega’s Tremendous Monkey Ball Banana Rumble on the Nintendo Switch, AiAi is rolling out (pun, very a lot supposed) to a model new viewers.
However what may make it even higher? What one factor may presumably create the best Tremendous Monkey Ball expertise in our lifetime? Nicely taking part in the sport with an precise monkey ball in fact.
Mates, forged away your Joycons. Joystick drift is a factor of the previous. Nicely, it’s so far as Dr Tom Tilley is worried.
You see Dr. Tom is a pc scientist and he has put all that intelligence and training into making a controller for Tremendous Monkey Ball that incorporates a mannequin of AiAI in a ball and made an enormous trackball out of it so he can steer AiAi across the programs by rotating the it along with his fingers.
All people’s including AI to issues lately so I assumed I might add AiAi to my DIY soccer/soccer controller.😁🍌#SuperMonkeyBall #sega https://t.co/nk2pcta3OG pic.twitter.com/XBohHHNIOC
— Dr Tom Tilley (@DrTomTilley) June 26, 2024
Utilizing some cardboard (scientific cardboard clearly) and a 3D printer to print the monkey he exhibits in his publish on X how he’s put all of it collectively and the way it all works. The person is a genius. A bona-fide genius and he has my vote.
His post said, “All people’s including AI to issues lately so I assumed I’d add AiAi to my DIY soccer/soccer controller.”
That is additionally humorous. He’s a genius and a humorous one at that. Please make us a Monkey Ball controller Dr Tom. We’re just about begging you.
Try the video above to see why {hardware} modders will sooner or later rule the earth.