03-31-2021, 09:22 PM
(03-28-2021, 10:16 PM)StridAst Wrote: Did you ever get controllers to work? I've also got several bluetooth controllers, as well as a kishi. So I'm also curious on this one. But I just pre-ordered my pinephone. So I won't be able to experiment myself until it shows up eventually.
Sad to say, only marginal progress has been made.
The good: Bluetooth compatibility has come a loooooong way since then, so I can actually pair my bluetooth earbuds and/or my controllers.
The bad: The issue now is that nothing knows how to use controllers. The occasional game will recognize the left joystick as up/down/left/right, and very rarely you'll find a game that does more than that (press A to jump). Retroarch actually works perfectly for ten seconds before flickering uncontrollably until you reboot the phone.
The ugly: I kind of knew this going in, but being able to play gamepad-based games and emulators on the Pinephone is not really going to be possible for a long time. At least another year or so at this rate before more playable games start trickling in. Plasma Mobile and Phosh both need a lot more smoothing out first. I'm hoping that once certain milestones have been hit though, swaths of games depending on certain libraries will start to "just work".
