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Doesn't Steam allow you to emulate other controllers if they don't support the DS5 natively?
A while back I bought an 8BitDo SN30 Pro+ on recommendation of a couple of co-workers, and a cheap bluetooth dongle to go with it, and so far I'm really happy with this one. Costs a bit less than the F710, and in XInput mode it seems to work perfectly in every game I've tried so far. It's got a rechargeable battery (that can be switched out for normal AA batteries), but it can be used wired as well unlike the F710. Feels a lot more solid than any of the Logitechs, and the sticks and triggers are nicer.
Size is a bit on the small side though. Almost never use mine, mostly bought them for a retrogaming build that never happened.
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I have 4 controllers, PS4, PS5, Nacon and the Steam controller, each of them works with some games and others not, Mass effect Andromeda only works with Nacon also The Outer worlds only works with Nacon. Outward perfectly recognizes all controllers ... etc etc ... strange isn't it?
Last edited by ghiuma on 22 Dec 2020 at 4:44 pm UTC
Seems like they might have stopped uploading new firmware though. At least manually grabbing and updating the firmware with lvupdtool worked fine.
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I'll third that. Xbox 360 controller acts like it was meant with Linux in mind
Plus, they are cheap to get on second-hand ; just make sure you get the wired ones (never really tried with the wireless ones, but I tend to not trust those...)
There are offers for the DS4 and the back keys.
I no longer wanted to play without back or grip keys.
I should mention that I'm not the kind of person who plays everything with a controller. I mostly use it for racing games and emulated Playstation games. Mouse and keyboard is still my bread and butter*.
* Not literally of course, but I wouldn't be surprised if my keyboard had enough breadcrumbs in it to make half a sandwich.
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Last edited by Julius on 23 Dec 2020 at 8:15 pm UTC
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Thanks! I was looking at that or the logitech . And thanks to everyone else too. I like my steam controller, but I can't afford a second one. Last time I tried an xbox controller, it felt a little big, but maybe I was just being picky.
I was mostly thinking for the very few racing, simple FPS games that my kids could play in the living room with my steam link.
Last edited by denyasis on 23 Dec 2020 at 10:48 pm UTC
We have a 8BitDo Sn30 Pro+ Wireless controller, which we've been happy with, but after a couple of years of heavy use it has begun to stop working randomly, so I assume the hardware is probably failing.
If we replace it, we'd probably prefer something with a similar layout (i.e. with the analogue sticks arranged symmetrically, like a PS controller, rather than the Xbox layout where the left stick and the D-pad are 'swapped'), because that's what we're used to, and our 'spare' controller is a Logitech F710, which has the same layout.
It looks like the original Sn30 Pro+ model has been superseded by the 8BitDo Pro 2, but I found a few posts around the web suggesting the newer model might not be as reliably compatible with Linux. Does anyone here have experience with the Pro 2?
Or, is there a more solid recommendation out there?