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Hello all, I was hoping to pick up a machine for 1080p gaming on a TV primarily for playing couch party games on emulators (switch, ps3, wii, etc) and was wondering if the deck would be a good fit? I've heard before that there were some problems with docks but not sure if that's been resolved. Any insight is appreciated

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[–] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wait, how does connecting four controllers to the steam deck to play smash bros would work?

[–] Veritrax@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I use a combination of PS4, PS5, and Nintendo pro controllers, all over Bluetooth. Works great.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 2 points 5 months ago

I do this with Xbox controllers and it's very easy. Depending on the emulator you usually have to assign which physical controller should be used for which console input. Usually this is a one time setup unless you switch back and forth a lot between the built in a Steam Deck controller and an external one.

I recommend launching the emulator from Steam when setting that up so there isn't any confusion between connecting directly to the controllers vs using Steam Input. Once the setup is done you can launch individual ROMs directly from Steam.

You can even mix and match controllers. I've played Smash Bros with a mix of Xbox, GCN and PS4 controllers on the Deck.

[–] DrDominate@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

With a dock with USB ports you could connect the GameCube controller adapter. 4 controllers ez.