I know there are a few discussions on gamepads but I need to ask too.
I have a PS4 Dualshock and the Status Nimbus XL for the AppleTV, both pair eventually but neither work well. I was using Gauntlet & Gauntlet II in Arcade.
The Stratus seems not to map the start button making it very tricky, the mappings are off for the buttons too - plus up/down seem to be reversed. The PS4 is a bit better, mappings are still off (surely there are only a few major gamepads so why on earth not have some setting options to state which you have and then map them properly, an option to remap would be helpful too - not too much to ask is it?), anyway, it works a bit better, but as I move it is really awful, very unresponsive so of course by the time I am positioned the character dies.
My question (apart from why no settings), is, are there any controllers that actually work, has anyone used them in gauntlet and do they perform well?
I don't want to buy a different one and then find it has the same (or new) problems.
Surely if you require a gamepad then the least you can do is make sure there is one that works properly and then tell people what it is!!
Exactly why I asked, I'm not spending £50+ only to find that it's no better than the ones I have.
I've seen a compatibility list that states clearly the stratus nimbus xl is a good one and others that state the ps4 works great!
Either my controllers are bad (they work fine on the systems that they are designed for so that is unlikely) or else the people who wrote those comments are not correct.
In my household, we're using Xbox 360 wired controllers with USB OTG adapters. They work great. We've used both a couple of original Microsoft ones and one 3rd-party one from Game Stop. I've used them with Pilot Wings, the Herobound titles, Oculus Arcade (though I haven't tried Gauntlet yet), and Pinball FX2 VR. (Maybe more, but those are the one's I recall off the top of my head.)
I have 360 wireless & wired, don't think the wireless one worked, how do you use wired ones with the go?
You just need an OTG adapter.
I do agree that it would be better with a "compatibility" list (and a gamepad remapping app might help with that).
I waited till I saw a post on a facebook group from someone that had a picture of the one they used and were happy with it. And I went with that one.
I would have considered the XBox One S bluetooth controller, but 2 things kept me from that.
1: It's spendy. I am cheap. 😉
2: You need the "bluetooth" one. Apparently they make 2 wireless ones, and only one will work. And they are pretty similar looking. I just know if I were to try, I'd buy the wrong one. 😉
The xbox one S controller sounds interesting but it's £50+ and the problem I have is that the searches I have done say it's pretty good but then the searches on the stratus said it was fully compatible! If fully compatible means that the button mappings are weird, there is no start button and up/down are reversed then okay, but I am a bit more fussy apparently and my definition would be far tighter! Spending £50+ to find out that the person who posted it hasn't got a clue would be annoying.
There are a few main controllers, Fire TV, Stratus, PS4, xBox One S, Switch Pro, so how difficult would it be to include in the Go OS a settings page for those controllers, thus making them 100% compatible and then having a 'Generic' one that you can tweak yourself - like lots of other platforms/apps have.
Just tried it with the wired 360 controller, it has a big message telling me to press SELECT to add credits, God knows what button select is 'cos it's none of the ones I have pressed, most of them seem to exit the game which now tells me I have to pay £2.99 if I want to play as I have run out of free games!
I'm not coughing up £3 for a game that is incapable of talking to any of the major gamepads so to hell with it.
Shame, I liked Gauntlet but it doesn't work with my PS4 controller, my Stratus controller, my 360 controller and I have zero confidence that it will actually work with any other controllers either, I am not shelling out on one plus the game only to find out that none of it works.
Very annoyed with it at the moment.
Oculus, sort yourselves out. Now Facebook have bought you you can easily afford to buy a few wireless gamepads. Treat yourselves to one of each of the major ones, then sort out the damned gamepad support, let us identify which we have and MAKE THE SOFTWARE WORK PROPERLY.
