Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Disk Modded Into Final Fantasy XIV Controller

The idea was simple. In Final Fantasy XIV, Astrologians use cards. Yu-Gi-Oh! characters use cards. Why not combine the two?

That was the original notion behind Twitch streamer Super Louis 64's latest project, in which he customized a Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Disk so that the cards could be pulled in FFXIV. But Super Louis 64 did not mod Final Fantasy XIV. Instead, he customized the Duel Disk and then mapped the controls to it.

Each of the first four slots on the Duel Disk corresponds to a party member in FFXIV (he could’ve had five, but didn’t work on that extra slot). Drawing certain Yu-Gi-Oh! cards then triggers buffs in FFXIV.

On Twitter, Super Louis 64 said the hardest part was somehow figuring out how to make the Yu-Gi-Oh! cards conductive because he didn’t actually change anything in in-game. Rather, he needed to assign buffs to each Yu-Gi-Oh! card and did so by using conductive paint, which he discovered while making the build. “I thought, wait a minute,” he said during the stream. “I can turn anything into a button if it’s conductive.” Both the cards and then the insides of the Duel Disk slots are coated in the material, making the project possible.

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