Hi all. I am getting sick of the stick drift on the Xbox and PlayStation controllers, so I’ve started looking into 3rd party controllers with hall effect. Two kept popping up, flydigi and 8bitdo. If anyone owns one of these, how’s their support on Linux? Do they work out of the box? Just plug in the dongle and you’re good to go? Are they stable? I don’t ever use any other buttons than the main ones, so I think won’t need their software. Unless even the main ones needs programming! Do they? Thanks in advance

  • BeansEnglish
    3•4 days ago

    I’ve got an 8BitDo Pro2. I really like it, but I used to have problems connecting it over Bluetooth (wired would work perfectly fine.)

    It just needed a firmware update. You’d probably be fine now (I’ve had my controller for a long time now, and rarely ever gave it an update), but if you experience connection problems with it, I’d try updating the firmware.

    After doing that, my controller has worked like a champ ever since.

    • @DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
      4•4 days ago

      Man, this is so freaking refreshing to hear. I don’t know why I haven’t bought one of these a long time ago. Buying all the MS and Sony garbage that is made to break. I only ever play wired. Rarely do I use/need the Bluetooth. Do these support the gyro requirements on rpcs3? I was playing uncharted the other day and it was telling me to move the controller on some parts of the game, and the Xbox (more of a shitbox controller) doesn’t work on it

      • BeansEnglish
        1•19 hours ago

        I don’t think the Pro 2 has gyro, no. Other models might though, I haven’t looked at their offerings for a good while now, lol.

        Never mind, I looked it up and apparently the Pro 2 has gyro in Switch mode. I’ll try it out on my PC and report back, lol. (I’ve never really bothered with gyro, tbh)

        Edit: Yeah, I can’t get gyro working. In Switch mode (wired), my PC doesn’t see the controller at all (on Linux 6.12, so it should have drivers for the Nintendo Pro controller — I’ve read that driver has issues with 3rd party controllers anyway, so…)

        Interestingly, in “A” mode it shows up as a DS4 controller, but I don’t see any gyro input with it under both Sudachi & RPCS3.

        So, maybe it works, but I can’t get it working in under ½ an hour 😅

        • @DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
          2•13 hours ago

          No worries, friend. I appreciate the effort. I got the 8bitdo ultimate 2c and the flydigi direwolf 3 and I love both. The latter does have a gyro, but it wouldn’t work with rpcs3 as an actual gyro since the PS3 used sixaxis which rpxs3 doesn’t support yet (knowing the wizards behind rpcs3, I doubt it would take long before they make it work). I can map the gyro to left stock, right stick or mouse. So I mapped it to the right stick and assigned the press and hold of the select button to activate it releasing it disables it.

          I can’t believe I haven’t bought any of these controllers a long time ago. They’re so great.