I had subbed to Arcade back when this came out just to see if I’d be into such a service. I even bought a backbone one. I played just a little bit of WoD, about half of that adorable diorama JRPG from the final fantasy guy, and maybe a few minutes of a lot of other stuff. It’s all really good stuff, I just really can’t get into gaming on a phone. My backbone has been largely untouched for years.
You use your own rom and run it with Ship of Harkinian, which allows you add right stick camera controls, better button mappings, and mods for things such as graphical enhancements.
I don't know how easy it would be to find, but if you manage to get SoH up and running on your deck, I made a community controller configuration for it called "Ocarina of Time - Harkinian Deck: C-button Radial, Config Toggle".
Basically it works like this:
Right touch pad = "C-button" radial menu
Remaps LB, Y, RB, and L3 to a C-button-themed radial menu as Left, Up, Right, and Down respectively.
(You will need to remap your C-buttons away from the right stick in Ship of Harkinian if you want to use it for camera controls. You can just use the radial menu to accomplish that.)
Select Button = "Config mode" toggle
Summons the Ship of Harkinian Config menu.
Changes the right analog, touch-pad, and triggers to mouse mode.
Migrates the C-button radial system to the left touch pad so you can still use it for remapping the c-buttons.
Pressing the button again dismisses the config menu and returns the game to normal "Game mode" controls.
(Don't close the game with the config mode controls active or you will be stuck with config controls the next time you start the game. Be sure to quit the game with the game mode controls active.)
I made a couple tweaks, so I don't know if those are reflected in the community config file I shared.
I would just like to throw in that that PC port of OoT is maybe the best way to enjoy that game on deck. The only downside is no retro achievement support.
I’m definitely still in a honeymoon phase with my OLED Deck, my first. My poor ps5 would have started collecting dust if it weren’t for how amazing Chiaki is.
I’ve used Mac for work, and Sony, Nintendo for gaming since forever, so deck is my first gateway into a lot of classic PC/Microsoft gaming history. By all rights, Deck is now my dedicated retro handheld and it’s nearly perfect for it (limited PS3). Right now I’m playing Star Wars: Dark Forces on the force Engine with the intention to play through the series. I have Daggerfall Unity installed as well, and I will be able to play Morrowind and Oblivion for the first time. Same same goes for the Halo series.
I can also finally play some games online with friends who don’t appreciate consoles as much as I do.
I’ll keep adding newer Games to my PlayStation library on PS5, but deck gives me access to a lot of PC ports to older console games I loved as well. I can repurchase them on the cheap and have them back in my library with deck.
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You’re not wrong (and I’m personally in favor of side loading), but this point is somewhat disingenuous. One scenario involves bypassing a reportable restriction aside deliberate negligence while the other involves inherently zero oversight or accountability. It’s not even close which approach is safer for the consumer.
I actually find it odd how loose my face buttons feel in contrast to the D-pad, which feels perfectly fine- mushy yet responsive and firmly fixed in place. It might slide around a little if you make it, but it’s not loose in the slightest.
Would you say that is how the face buttons are actually supposed to be? Because that would actually be pretty nice to have.
This is good to know, thank you. I just filed an RMA ticket with steam a few hours ago. Not looking forward to giving up my deck to wait for a replacement if it comes to that, but functioning buttons would certainly be worth it.
Absolutley! Even more “interesting-ly” than that straw-man of yours, friend! ;)
FYI, calling out Apple’s anti-competitive bs is not at all a problem. In fact, many Apple users are plenty happy to do that themselves. The problem is with how haters behave toward the users of Apple products, rather than the company itself.
I had this issue. I shut the thing completely off and set it aside for a while cause I was so annoyed with it. Next time I turned it on, everything was fine like nothing happened. Linux is f-ing weird.
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