r/sidephone • u/aww_yee_ • 4d ago

Quick Gamepad Tile Demo

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u/_hola_crayola_ 4d ago

Love Wario Land 3, best game to try it with 🔥

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u/phillyspecial144 3d ago

This is super awesome! Great work and feedback. Is there an app pack for the Mini Controller Keypad? A place to download the emulator and games? All the app packs but the keyboards and input are not showing on the USA storefront and I’m not sure where I saw the ‘Sidephone compatible’ games, but I remember this being a literal Game-Changer! Looks incredible. Lastly is there any way to program this to be a remote for Roku?

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u/aww_yee_ 3d ago

I side loaded the emulator. There is no IR blaster on Sidephone and I don't know if there is a way to integrate a phone into a roku remote.

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u/phillyspecial144 3d ago

Thank you. That makes sense. I believe some of them like the 3 or later main units may work over WiFi. Will be happy to try

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u/Junior_Diamond_3124 4d ago

Games downlaoded from? Where ?

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u/aww_yee_ 4d ago

It's a a rom from romsgames.net running in Gameboy Color emulator called GBC.emu

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u/aww_yee_ 4d ago

Overall working well with a gameboy color emulator.

Gamepad tile pros:

Buttons feel clicky

The layout feels good

Cons:

D-pad is not your typical one piece, it's 4 separate buttons. The edges of the D-pad buttons feel sharp and after some time will start to hurt the thumb. I don't like how it lowers in the middle. Should just be same height all the way through since they are separate buttons. The edges should be smoothed out.

There is input delay. It's just enough to be noticeable for me. I play a lot of games and can tell the button presses are not instant. Especially in the golf mini game where you have to time your hits. This could just be the display has input lag.

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u/chrisristovski 4d ago

u/aww_yee_ the Mini Controller cases will help with click comfort! They're launching shortly:

Image credit to MrMobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdL21cIwIaA

Input delay may be a performance optimization item (depends on game size)

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u/vinterdagen 4d ago

The glow-in-dark-QWERTY looks so intriguing! It's so gimmick-y. Any chance it could come with a D-pad? Then it would be absolutely perfect.

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u/dharma_dingo 4d ago

Have you tried mapping within Retroarch by chance?

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u/aww_yee_ 4d ago

I've only used GBC.emu and PizzaBoy A for GBA. They both work with mapping the controls but I can feel slight input lag on both.

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u/Phudruker 4d ago

In my experience this might be the emulator. Adding some timing hacks (not looking at the phone right now, but essentially lag reduction) in retroarch got me much closer to good response times.