[Unofficial] New iOS/macOS controller app

[apexskier]

I've got a new iOS gamecube controller app that I've been working on and using with Dolphin for a month or so now (mostly with Mario Party 6). I originally forked from GitHub user ajaymerchia's Dolphin Controller app on the app store but ended up fully rewriting it from scratch. My main goals for improvement were to make setup not require command line knowledge or tooling, and I saw some pretty significant performance improvements for button latency. To accomplish this I wrote a companion macOS app that broadcasts itself locally and acts as a bit of a nicer bridge between the iOS app and Dolphin. I also had some fun with swiftui and haptics.

I'm still working on getting the iOS part on the app store, I'll try to post back once it's published, but if you've got XCode, you can build it yourself for now.

Check it out at https://github.com/apexskier/dolphin-controller, and here are some screenshots:

[Shonumi]

Looks pretty good! Nice work!

Marking this as unofficial. Just a formality we do for programs and other downloads that aren't officially part of Dolphin.

[JosJuice]

Looks nice! Though I'm wondering, is there a particular reason why you used pipes instead of the DSU protocol? The latter would let you skip writing a macOS-side application.

[apexskier]

Update, this is now live on the App Store at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dolphin-ctrl/id1584272645 and I’ve published a release of the server on GitHub at https://github.com/apexskier/dolphin-controller/releases/latest, so you can try it out without building in Xcode.

[apexskier]

(09-03-2021, 04:24 PM)JosJuice Wrote: Looks nice! Though I'm wondering, is there a particular reason why you used pipes instead of the DSU protocol? The latter would let you skip writing a macOS-side application.

I’m using pipes since I originally based this off of another app using pipes. That protocol looks interesting, are these the relevant docs - https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=DSU_Client? I’ll look into it, but on first glance I might still want a macOS server, at least for nicer server discovery behavior, so you don’t need to plug in up addresses manually. It looks like that protocol might allow simulating a wii accelerometer which would be cool. I’d be really excited if it allows sending rumble commands to the controller, since that’s not at all possible with pipes.

[mbc07]

(09-05-2021, 02:28 AM)apexskier Wrote: I’d be really excited if it allows sending rumble commands to the controller, since that’s not at all possible with pipes.

Unfortunately it doesn't...