Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
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Don’t the expensive (over $100) controllers that PlayStation and Xbox offer have paddle controls on the back? I think they are Elite and Edge controllers.
I have an aftermarket controller with back paddles (8bitdo pro) but they can only be bound to other existing controls or macros which I don't find useful at all 😔
The Pro 2 can have those mapped to any control in D-input mode. It's fully Steam Input compatible.
Only two and they don't function as additional buttons sadly
Ah I see. Interesting! I always assumed the steam deck was just providing what high end console controllers were standardizing back there.
Nope! Both the Xbox Elite and Dualsense Edge controllers don't add new buttons, they just add buttons that can only be copies of the regular Xbox/Playstation buttons.
Steam Deck does it better since the four back buttons can be used as completely independent buttons.
I've heard that the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 controller also can use its extra buttons as net new buttons, and I've been tempted to get one for that reason (and because I really liked the Ultimate "1" I had before my dog chewed it up!)