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8BitDo Gaming Controllers Now Compatible With iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac
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What's the advantage here? I'm on Mac OS 12.6.3 and my 8bitdo Pro 2 controller works more or less fine (except for Overcooked 2 via Steam). What would upgrading to 13.2 offer?
LOL, no. None of Apple's machines have the hardware to play AAA titles. If you want a Mac that can do that, go build a Hackintosh. Otherwise, forget it.
System settings now recognise it as an 8bitdo controller and the controller now properly supports MAME and OpenEmu.
That means Arcade MAME games that used paddles and steering wheels now receive proper signals from the D-pad. Before this firmware update pressing left or right on D-pad was incompatible in MAME games like Star Wars, Arkanoid and Buggy Boy. It would send the wrong signal and your player would go straight off the screen.
Now you can play EVERYTHING even light gun games with the controller.
Nothing in the lineup is going to beat a PS5 or Series-X, but the latest ATV 4k does beat the Switch on horsepower. And while the Switch is obviously old and underpowered, Nintendo does prove that you can have AAA experiences on it.
For someone who intends to play only on Apple devices (Mac and Apple TV), do you think it is more worthwhile to get the 8BitDo Pro 2 or the Ultimate Wireless?
Yeah, you don't know what you're talking about.
There's nothing wrong with the M1 GPU. It's due to OpenGL being a turd on Arm.
Fire up WoW/Disco Elysium or Resident Evil for a proper example of what it can do.
I think you can download the firmware updater for macOS on their website, though it is an x86 app.
No, only on gaming PC. I will try it tonight on my Mac after work and report back.
So without any new firmware being released as the many articles imply, and after testing, it seems:
These controllers had the power within them all along 🥰
(or at least since the last major FW update 🙃)
It is bonkers that they sat on this information for months without informing their customers, and that we/they all never bothered to try (except a select few who also didn't make waves to tell the community) 😅
These controllers had the power within them all along 🥰
(or at least since the last major FW update 🙃)
It is bonkers that they sat on this information for months without informing their customers, and that we/they all never bothered to try (except a select few who also didn't make waves to tell the community) 😅
Thank you for this thorough explanation that explains a lot not just about these controllers specifically but controllers generally.
What I take from this is that there’s actually no perfect combination that supports everything without just using the matching controller for the system. Switch seems closest but analog triggers would be nice.
Sounds like you’re just trying to troll but that’s obviously just flat out not true. The Nintendo Switch is a dedicated gaming console, that plays AAA titles, and its power is a fraction of what Apple’s hardware can handle. Get out of your bubble.
Now get some decent games on apple arcade for apple tv , not like it's underpowered is it ?
I read it's halfway between a switch and a ps4 ( which is pretty impressive )
I read it's halfway between a switch and a ps4 ( which is pretty impressive )
Also I was confused, I tried to update the firmware just to see there is nothing to update on the sn30 pro. I guess it’s official now… before it wasn’t stated as such. I guess the new iOS macOS releases somehow build in some new support feature ….
You're not getting AAA graphics out of a Nintendo Switch, nor are you are getting AAA hardware from it either. The same goes for Apple.
We all know this, but if you wanna talk about AAA games, those are mostly on PC and then PS / Xbox. Switch doesn't have the horsepower to wow audiences with visuals that in part makes a AAA title (the graphics). Not saying that Nintendo games aren't fun, but AAA titles is mostly stuff like Last of Us, Battlefield, Tomb Raider, Forza Horizon, Doom, Call of Duty, Witcher, etc. You won't find these on the Switch or any Apple devices because Apple has always chosen to gimp their laptops and desktops with crappy GPUs. You're not going to run AAA PC titles in Mac OS.... and even if you could, you'd still be waiting forever for developers to do PROPER ports.... and then you also have to factor that the Mac userbase is small on top of it. Makes no sense for Apple to push AAA gaming.
So again, if you want a Mac with hardware capable of running AAA titles, build a Hackintosh.
Many of the games you specifically list are playable on either Mac or the Switch, which wouldn't be a problem if you weren't trying to draw such a hard line, and conflate AAA with high or ultra gfx settings. If I'm playing Doom Eternal on a 1060, am I not playing a AAA title?
Do you live under a rock? Even the base M1 is now capable of playing AAA games, if only devs would bother to port or if Apple opens the wallet like they did for Resident Evil Village, No Man's Sky, and a few other titles. You listed Tomb Raider which literally exists as a Mac port (all three games). Am I saying that Macs all of a sudden should be bought for gaming? Hell no, it's still "here's a few games you can play, mostly indies and some AAA" as a side effect.
Btw, I've made a few hackintoshes, most recent one with a rx590 because I had one lying around. To get a faster GPU than an M2 Max, you're gonna have to go with a 6900xt... and we probably won't get proper 12th gen intel support, so the M2 will be a better CPU.
lol someone is lacking manners. Maybe you don’t know what you are talking about either… It’s still apple software that’s not optimized… the same steam game runs great on ubuntu with an old Dual core pentium processor and GTX 1070 in 4K super smooth. Apple hasn’t bothered writing proper code it’s their problem their computers can’t do open gl with decent performance… again much older hardware but it works waaaay better. No reason not to support open gl, those ETS 2 and ATS still have a large user base and get regular updates.