Quick iCP question in regards to the pandora

[DarkCheetah]

Right now I'm using a USB/PS2 controller adapter to use a couple of old Playstation controllers when gaming on my TV. I was wondering if the iCP is pretty easy going as far as button mapping because it's a chore on my current controllers?

 

[gruso]

No experience with this, but a question out of curiosity - where are you doing the mapping? In the emulator(s), or an external tool?

 

[TrashyMG]

I've made the Pandora and ICP make sweet sweet love..


Mostly the key mapping is done in the emulator/games and such.. It works fairly well when in gamepad/joystick mode. However how easy it is depends on the program.

 

[DarkCheetah]

For some reason whenever I save a controller config in an emulator it never saves it. I suppose my question should have asked if the iCP works as a "native" controller so to speak. More an auto detect like the Pandoras controls themselves.

 

[Morn]

I suppose my question should have asked if the iCP works as a "native" controller so to speak. More an auto detect like the Pandoras controls themselves.

If "native" means "indistinguishable from built-in controls so that every app that works with on-board controls would work with iCP too" then the answer is no. Fortunately external controller support is quite good among emulators,

 

[gruso]

Makes one think though... being that they're sister products, wouldn't it make a whole lot of sense if the iCP was mapped that way automatically when paired with a Pandora? This would be an awesome professional touch and should on the to-do list.

 

[Prometheus]

^ I would buy one to keep around for multi-player TV-out action, if that were the case (or at the very least, if something could map it as if it was a virtual part of the built-in controls, in case that would work better).

 

[gadgetoid]

Makes one think though... being that they're sister products, wouldn't it make a whole lot of sense if the iCP was mapped that way automatically when paired with a Pandora? This would be an awesome professional touch and should on the to-do list.

+100000


A little 'iControlPad' utility is what we need, to pick whether it should mirror the Pandora's built-in controls (for easy single-player) or act in the same way as controller 2.

 

[Binky]

Surely this could be done in both directions:

• ICP working as Pandora controls
  
• Pandora controls working as ICP
  

 

[gadgetoid]

• Pandora controls working as ICP
  

Depends if anyone can be bothered to do it. But as others here have mentioned, the N810 had BlueMaemo, a utility which emulated a bluetooth mouse/keyboard combo.


And here's the delicious sauce: http://maemo.org/packages/source/view/fremantle_extras-devel_free_source/bluemaemo/0.3-9/


Which probably isn't portable without some hefty rewriting... but I wouldn't know!


That's most of the iControlPad battle right there, ultimately iCade mode is only a HID Keyboard with weird bindings.

 

[DarkCheetah]

I would honestly buy 2 iCPs if they acted like a virtual extension of the pandora controls. I'm surprised this hasn't been thought of before by OP.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

I can't get my iCP to connect to the Pandora. The bluetooth utility fails to set it up. Same on my laptop.