These controllers were all working on SteamOS before as far as I know, so I’m interested to see what this changes. My understanding is that previously their controllers just show up as generic xbox controllers, and now they will be properly recognized. We’ll see if this has any other benefits like custom bindings for back buttons and things like that.

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Edit:

According to @dualpad@lemmy.zip

got the 8bitdo Ultimate 2 wireless controller with the latest firmware update, and can confirm dinput mode lets me map the back buttons and extra bumpers to different inputs through Steam Input. Analog triggers and gyro work too.

  • CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml
    12·
    28 days ago

    I really wish you could swap the buttons easily to match the system. The 8-bitdo controllers tend to have the Nintendo layout which kind of sucks because most games don’t support that they use Xbox. And then of course if you get into emulation nothing will match the PlayStation so I either need several controllers around or to memorize locations

    • forgedchaos@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      28 days ago

      If you don’t care about what the physical button shows, steam has an option the swap the layout of the face buttons from Nintendo to xbox in the input settings.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      28 days ago

      I wish so many games didn’t default to the Xbox layout with no option to change it. Having grown up with the SNES layout, the prompts fuck me up every time.

      • Don_alForno@feddit.org
        8·
        28 days ago

        How can it be so hard for devs to just include some additional sets of glyphs and allow the player to switch manually? Then nobody would have this problem.

        • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
          4·
          28 days ago

          It isn’t, and many now do.
          Autosetting the glyphs correctly is actually one of the requirements for a Steam Deck Verified badge and Steam supplies a library that has them all, so modern games are pretty good at it. And if you implement that, you might as well add a menu option to change “Auto” to “Switch” or “Playstation”.

          There just was a quite long period where majority of games used Xinput thanks to Microsoft, basically only working with Xbox controllers, and as a response a whole bunch of controllers identify as Xbox controllers when plugged in. Therefore, xbox icons were the only thing they were “designed” to ever work with.

    • ISolox@lemmy.world
      6·
      28 days ago

      You can! They have replacement buttons for whichever layout you want for fairly cheap. I’m using the original ultimate Bluetooth with an Xbox layout.

    • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      28 days ago

      At least in Steam, there is a “use Nintendo layout” or something setting to swap X and A