Controller Support on PC games

[JerKnuts]

I’m not sure how many people utilize LaunchBox to launch their PC games but I do almost exclusively. I am having trouble distinguishing between PC games which have controller support. Whether fully, partial, or none at all.

I know there are already ways to sort/playlist based on controller support but I cannot seem to find a way to get that to work well for the PC games. Maybe I just don’t know how to work the autopopulate or maybe they don’t all pull that data.

I think a Controller field on PC game entries would do wonders. We can go in and update the field as we come across the ones that work and don’t.

[brian]

The good news is that this is already a thing.

A couple years ago we introduced a complete controller management system to facilitate this.

If you would like to apply controller types to a particular game, edit the game, and check under the Metadata > Controller Support section. You can add controllers there, or Manage Game Controllers to add new types of controllers.

Also, by default, we do our best to try and automatically bring in controller support metadata for some of the storefronts like Steam.