The Fisher-Price baby’s first gamepad has just been modded to play Elden Ring

Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge

I never thought I'd be writing about my baby's Fisher-Price gamepad again, but here we go: a mod has turned the cheap tune-filled toy into a complete Xbox gamepad with everything you need to play El. He was able to pair his Malenia run with classic kiddie hits without losing any of the Fisher-Price Game and Learn Controller's sound effects.

here's the Fisher Price Xbox controller in action!



let me know what games you'd like to see me play with it



and thanks to @Wario64 for the off-hand joke that inspired me to make this happen pic.twitter.com/3OETvcsEsI

— Rudeism (@rudeism) May 1, 2022

If you've heard of Beck before, this is one of the less ambitious controller stunts the New Zealand native has pulled. You can see all of them in the tweets.

Dark Souls 3 has been beaten with Morse code!



19 bosses, 258,250 button presses. (DLC to come)



And just because it can be beaten with one button doesn't mean games like Dark Souls shouldn't have accessibility & difficulty options! pic.twitter.com/DporRqC15E

— Rudeism (@rudeism) October 24, 2021

The new Fisher-Price mod is one of the favorite builds of Rudeism due to how clean it looks.

The original Fisher-Price buttons still work, even though he's got the Arduino set to piggyback off their inputs by soldering directly to the pre-existing board. He's mostly playing games with the actual Fisher-Price gamepad, not just using a Fisher-Price gamepad as a shell. He says that the room is taking up a lot of space, so you have to plug it in.

You might wonder how he can get every button out of the limited controls. You can get them all at once. He made the Fisher-Price slider a mode selector that allows you to have either a left or right stick at any time, as well as access to Start, Select and Guide buttons on A, B, and C.

Wario64, a deal hunter, decided to put the gamepad to the test after he joked that it would be perfect for Elden Ring. He says he's planning on beating the whole game with the baby gamepad, but there's no footage of it yet. He used to make mounts to keep the joystick and switches in position, but not the old 3D printer he used to make.

I don't know if I'll build one of these with my son's pad, but it's a joy to see this hunk of plastic in the headlines again.