Just Got an 8bitdo Ultimate Bluetooth Controller, What Now?

The immediate goal is to use it on my potato pc and play Batman Arkham Asylum.

Using the 2.4ghz adapter immediately detected the controller and the game recognized it as well so I could play on the get go.

However, I wanted to try the bluetooth mode which I had trouble with.

And I wanted to try using the back buttons (like mapping it to A so I can use it for sprinting while moving the camera).

  1. Do I need to download a software? update firmware?

  2. What games would you recommend to take advantage of my new controller (note: I have a potato pc, so probably indie games? or retro games on emulators). I wanted to try Armored Core 3 on PS2 but my PC either couldn’t handle it or PCSX2 isn’t too compatible for that game.

  • tuckerm@supermeter.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t have an 8bitdo Ultimate controller, but I have several of their other ones. They all work for me over bluetooth when I pair it with my PC and then use Steam to recognize the controller. They show up as a Switch Pro controller, meaning Steam won’t be aware of the back buttons (I’m guessing you need to use 8bitdo’s software to do that). But you can remap the regular buttons and the gyroscope in Steam’s UI. If you use xinput mode, then you are limited to the controls on an Xbox controller, so no gyroscope.

    That does mean you need to use Steam to launch all of your games, even if you bought them elsewhere, but Steam has a controller-friendly interface, so I prefer to do that anyway.

    edit: Bah, I just saw @mp3’s comment. Too bad that their Ultimate controller doesn’t work like their other ones, that’s a big step backwards.