Have you ever checked out RetroDeck on the Steam Deck? They built their own controller profile and the radial dial menu controls all emulators and has it’s own specific icons, it’s so cool!
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I use virtual menus in RetroArch on my Steam Deck. Whenever I touch the left trackpad, the emulated game pauses and a menu shows up. On selection the game continues and runs the shortcut associated with the action in RetroArch. And there are more functionalities I am using. It really needed exact timing and fine tuning. Unfortunately I never uploaded it, because it depends on a specific configuration of some shortcuts that has to be done in RetroArch.
And that’s my biggest problem. There is no documentation or README we can write for the downloadable user configuration. Even a hyperlink would be good, so I could provide a webpage or PDF / Textfile for download.
strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I’m aware of EmuDeck and RetroDeck, and prefer using RetroArch on Steam Deck directly. I’m not really interested into any layer that sits in between for the input and manages the systems. I’m deep into the manual configuration of RetroArch already on PC and the Deck and I like it this way. It is cool what those projects do, but its not for me. I do not want to give any third party control over this.
As for the controls, I already have my controls and like how it works. My only “problem” is, that Steam does not offer us a way to document and upload the document (be it text only) with the Steam Input configuration.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Yeah, it’s sometimes hard to use other people’s config layouts for that reason. Even with being able to label the inputs on the “input overview” screen, it can be unclear how to use the more complex profiles. And many input profiles might require specific game settings to work properly (like small deadzone settings for gyro joystick aiming, etc).
A lot of times even if a game has a lot of community profiles available, I’ll end up making my own. That way there’s no question on how to use it, and I can tweak it as I go if I run into any issues.