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Someone built the PlayStation controller PC dongle that Sony refuses to make (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] phailhaus@piefed.social 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You are thinking of analog triggers, which work fine over Bluetooth. Adaptive triggers is game-controlled resistance and feedback within the trigger. A rifle trigger, for example, is light at first, then when you get close to the firing point it gets heavy for a moment and then 'breaks', suddenly going all the way.

This works on PC if you plug in via USB, but very few games support it on PC and Stam Input breaks it.

Haptics are high-quality rumble. Rumble is basically just turning a motor on and off, often in a high and a low mode. Modern controllers drive vibration motors at varying levels using a sound signal, giving far more nuanced control. They often also have more motors that are independently controlled. This also works when plugged in via USB.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks for explaining. I'm pretty sure Xbox doesn't have any of that. I knew the DS4 had something with the touch pad, and I heard there were some new things with the DS5, but I never upgraded my PlayStation past PS3 (which I think is still a great system, definitely better than the 360, though you really couldn't go wrong that gen, except one had Blu-ray).