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Another rockchip Operating System
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Feature request: Alternative button layouts #1022

Closed lauren7ino closed 2 months ago

lauren7ino commented 2 months ago

Hi Christian,

First of all, thank you for pointing me to the right direction in this post: https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/issues/905#issuecomment-1912359369 I'm a happy gamer now :)

Request:

Please consider distributing an alternate DTB file with Xbox button layout. A <=> B swapped X <=> Y swapped I know physical buttons can not be swapped (can they?) but I believe Xbox gamers would appreciate this.

Thank you

christianhaitian commented 2 months ago

Good. This is not something I will accommodate at this time as it would increase maintenance across 10+ devices that I don't want to manage unless this can be accomplished with simple text file changes which I wouldn't know how to accomplish.

lauren7ino commented 2 months ago

Linux seems to have Kernel support for Device Tree Overlays https://www.96boards.org/documentation/consumer/dragonboard/dragonboard410c/guides/dt-overlays.md.html

I would imagine it would be possible to have a base TDB with no A/B/X/Y buttons, a TDB for Nintendo layout (default) and TDB for Xbox, which could be swapped using a script in ArkOS.

lauren7ino commented 2 months ago

Another ideia: A script in ArkOS that swaps buttons between Nintendo and Xbox. Could be acomplished by expanding the existing DTB: dtc -I dtb -O dts rk3566-OC.dtb -o rk3566-OC.dts patches the generated DTS file to swap the buttons, then recompiles the DTB dtc -O dtb -o rk3566-OC.dtb -b -0 rk3566-OC.dts reboots. All indevice :)

christianhaitian commented 2 months ago

Another ideia: A script in ArkOS that swaps buttons between Nintendo and Xbox. Could be acomplished by expanding the existing DTB: dtc -I dtb -O dts rk3566-OC.dtb -o rk3566-OC.dts patches the generated DTS file to swap the buttons, then recompiles the DTB dtc -O dtb -o rk3566-OC.dtb -b -0 rk3566-OC.dts reboots. All indevice :)

I thought about this but then how would I globalize this for rk3326 devices as well.

lauren7ino commented 2 months ago

Sorry, I don't know anything about RK3326 devices 🙁

Anyway, I ended up just swapping A/B, because X/Y don't bother anyone. That's what most UIs do anyway, EmulationStation, PortMaster and RetroArch only have A/B swap settings.