Greetings everyone,

I know many folks have wanted to use 8Bitdo controllers on linux, and that includes the Ultimate Software.

I use the 8Bitdo Ultimate 2 controller on my Arch install. And I had been wanting to check for firmware updates, and was doing some searching and couldn’t find anything that could help me.

I found out that I can run that software through Lutris with minimal configuration.

  1. Open Add game dialogue box
  2. select “Add locally installed game”
  3. Filled out Name under Game info, and selected Runner (Wine)
  4. Game options tab I selected the executable, selected Working directory, and set Wine prefix path
  5. Runner options I used GE-Proton (latest)
  6. Launched

I want to note; unsure if you would have to, but I have udev rules added:

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2dc8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6103", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe xpad", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 2dc8 6103 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/xpad/new_id'"
ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2dc8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="310b", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe xpad", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 2dc8 310b > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/xpad/new_id'"

Hope this helps someone.

Edit:

I want to add I am also using xpadneo-dkms from the AUR.

  • thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    I would have saved this but I got a steam controller that updates natively with steam in Linux.

    I hope others find this and it’s easy for them. I however will always avoid 8bitdo because of no native Linux support without all this bullshit to update it.

    Kinda wish you posted this years ago so I didn’t just never use the 8bitdo because of not being able to update it easily. Thank you though

    • hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip
      OPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I had bought 8bitdo controllers before switching to Linux. Was always bummed they didn’t support Linux natively. My next controller will be the Steam controller.