Feature request: Native Switch Pro controller support?

[Xharos]

Hey!

So, using the Switch Pro controller is easier than ever by adding Dolphin as a non-steam game on Steam and all that. But I was wondering, what are the chances of adding native support to Dolphin so that we don't depend on Steam? Just like native support for wiimotes etc. It's a great replacement for the old Wii classic controller, and it's super easy to pair to Windows. It even works wired via USB without bluetooth.

Thanks for reading

[KHg8m3r]

Wiimotes are just passing the data directly to the game, which isn't the same as writing a driver interfacing controller for a non-Wii/GC based controller

[Helios]

This gets brought up every now and then for various controllers, so I'll just summarize what the general problems are.

1. Dolphin really isn't in the business of writing drivers or SDL wrappers (Or whatever Steam does) for controllers to work with Dolphin. That's pretty out of scope and just more to maintain

2. Maintaining drivers/wrappers/whatever for various controllers sucks, and opens up the flood gates of "hey, you merged in support for the Switch Pro Controller, why won't you support my MemeBox Controller 4200?? It has gyros!"

3. Writing this to support all the OSes we support is pretty difficult, and we already have bits of Dolphin that don't work well in one OS but works flawlessly (usually Linux lol) in another.

4 (and most importantly). Nobody has expressed interest in coming up with the code and a plan to maintain all this.

[Xharos]

(05-29-2018, 04:45 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Wiimotes are just passing the data directly to the game, which isn't the same as writing a driver interfacing controller for a non-Wii/GC based controller

(05-29-2018, 06:47 AM)Helios Wrote: This gets brought up every now and then for various controllers, so I'll just summarize what the general problems are.

1. Dolphin really isn't in the business of writing drivers or SDL wrappers (Or whatever Steam does) for controllers to work with Dolphin. That's pretty out of scope and just more to maintain

2. Maintaining drivers/wrappers/whatever for various controllers sucks, and opens up the flood gates of "hey, you merged in support for the Switch Pro Controller, why won't you support my MemeBox Controller 4200?? It has gyros!"

3. Writing this to support all the OSes we support is pretty difficult, and we already have bits of Dolphin that don't work well in one OS but works flawlessly (usually Linux lol) in another.

4 (and most importantly). Nobody has expressed interest in coming up with the code and a plan to maintain all this.

Understood! I didn't realise that the support would be more complicated than with real Wiimotes, I thought the process would be similar. If it can't be, it can't be. Thanks!

[Helios]

What you can do though, is find a way to wrap the Switch Pro Controller into an xinput device, and then Dolphin can use it natively without Steam's SDL wrapper. I think x360ce can do that? No idea if it works with Dolphin though.

[Rare White Ape]

I use a PS4 controller pretty seamlessly with Dolphin, but that is thanks to a spearate program that does the whole Xinput wrapper thing (Input Mapper).

If you want Switch ProCon support it’s probably just easier to add Dolphin in Steam *shrug*