Final Fantasy 14 Fan Makes Monk Job Controller Out of a WiiMote

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There is seemingly no end to the creative genius of gamers, and Final Fantasy 14’s playerbase is no exception. One Final Fantasy 14 fan has made a special controller for the Monk job that uses a Wii Nunchuk to make actual punches, jabs, and uppercuts activate abilities and skills.

The controller was made by Super Louis 64, known as the “Controller Bender.” An endless wellspring of creativity, Super Louis 64 has made controllers for several Final Fantasy 14 jobs, including the Bard and Samurai.

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This latest controller made by Super Louis 64 is activated via motion sensors using a Wii Nunchuk like in Wii Sports Boxing, but with a lot of extra work put into it. Certain abilities are mapped to specific motions–for example, jabbing twice and uppercutting once performs a basic Monk combo. He also mapped PvP abilities to the controllers, so he could test the gloves out in Final Fantasy 14’s new Crystalline Conflict PvP mode. The controller's systems were so tight that they translated over perfectly to Elden Ring's fist weapons–something that might inspire a special run in the future.

When Super Louis 64 set out to make this boxing controller, he initially played around with using motion detection instead. However, with the spirited flips and spins of the Monk job’s animations, such a controller proved impossible. He also considered using a punching bag loaded with pressure detection hardware, but his apartment proved too small for such a set-up. Eventually, he settled on using the Wii Nunchuks as a baseline to make the boxing glove controller–a process that involved duct-taping a WiiMote to his hand for a couple of hours to gather data.

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