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![]() These include my phone and tablet, and now also work phone (no more Blackberry, yay) being built on the quickly growing platform. Snakebyte Controller Software Software Community AndBeing an open ecosystem versus its tightly-controlled competition, there has been both a vibrant software community and a growing peripheral market. Snakebyte has sent us their entry into the Android compatible gamepad market. Unfortunately, as open platforms go, there is no such thing as a single standard. Each manufacturer is attempts to deal with this in different ways. Some just emulate a standard PS3 controller (since Android 4.0 they are natively supported), while others try to offer something more. For some manufacturers, this may include custom software which tries to emulate a touch interface with a gamepad. Rather than making custom software, they make it so that their hardware supports six different controller modes, each based on a popular standard. They felt that this way they could support as much as possible without needing to keep software up to date. In this mode, the games look at the attached controllers and use the ones that implement what buttons and axis they are looking for. ![]() The only button missing is the PS button, which is not needed for gaming, as you just exit the game when pressed. I did find it to lag a couple of times, but it could have been my device since it seemed to go away. But others, including some not listed on Snakebytes compatibility page, worked flawlessly. Legal gray area or not, it does make sense in the emulation friendly platform its targeting. I prefer RetroArch, which is an excellent Open Source emulator which supports most common, and not so common, platforms. It also makes extra effort to support as many gamepads as possible, and in this area, they did not disappoint. But those modes, while not really useful to me, did work with key presses as expected. Evidently, iCade emulates keyboard key presses as well, as thats what I saw while trying it in a text editor. Snakebyte also warns that the keyboard must be set to US English for the device to work properly. Well, it turns out that depending on the chosen mode, its a standard HID gamepad, or a HID keyboard, or a HID mouse, or some combination of those, for the various combo modes.
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