Cross-platform remote play app for PlayStation adds controller mapping, custom renderer options

If you have a PlayStation 5 or PlayStation 4 and want to stream games to something else like your PC or Steam Deck, chiaki-ng is what you need and it just got a great upgrade in version 1.9.0.

Originally called chiaki4deck where it vastly improved Steam Deck support over the original chiaki open source project, it was later renamed to chiaki-ng (chiaki-next-generation) to better showcase that it's for all platforms.

The new v1.9.0 release brings with it some big new features like a feature to allow you to fully configure the mapping for your controller, which they say is "especially nice for mapping Xbox and Switch controllers to PlayStation inputs". You also now get more control over how the stream displays with custom option support.

All the changes:

• adds Controllers section to chiaki-ng settings which allows you to configure the mapping for your controller (especially nice for mapping Xbox and Switch controllers to PlayStation inputs) [Note: Controllers mapped via Steam should be mapped directly in the Steam UI gamepad configurator as opposed to this menu. If you try to map a controller that is mapped via Steam in this menu it will give you a notification that it should be mapped via Steam.]
• adds Custom renderer option which allows you to configure your renderer options very granularly with the options at https://libplacebo.org/options/
• add defaults to all settings so users are aware of the defaults/which settings they've changed
• add different haptic rumble intensity settings for users to configure if the default is not to their liking
• add ability to hide un-registered discovered consoles
• for manual connection show 1 pane with all relevant information instead of 2 panes when console is discovered + allow user to choose between registered consoles (regardless of whether or not they are currently discovered) + make PS5 default console type
• disable double click for fullscreen by default and allow re-enabling via the Video section of the Settings
• fix crash when user has more than 1 PS5 registered with PSN
• fix crash that could happen when a user uses the wake from sleep feature
• fix corrupt stream that could occur after several hours of streaming
• fix launching from a path with non-ascii characters on Windows
• fix decimal points turning into scientific notation numbers in QSliders
• properly terminate ipv6 discovery service
• ping all network interfaces on Linux and MacOS allowing discovery of previously undiscovered consoles

See more on the GitHub page. You can download it easily for Linux / Steam Deck via Flathub.