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8BitDo announces its controllers now have Steam (SteamOS) compatibility (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The 8bitdo Ultimate 2 is pretty close to an XBox controller and it has a gyro. The problem is that while the gyro works great on Switch, it's severely limited on PC, as it can only emulate the right stick with very few settings. The Steam Input update could potentially fix that, but I haven't tested it yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The gyro works perfectly fine with this update

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good to hear. Tried running the update when the news about it came out, but it seemingly wasn't available yet. Will try later today then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Make sure to turn the controller on when holding the B button. It's only recognised correctly in steam when it's in direct input mode and by default it boots into xinput