Controller:Nvidia SHIELD Portable
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Key points
- Must be connected over WiFi.
- Due to being out of stock for many years, it is thought to be discontinued, but there has not yet been any official announcement from Nvidia.
- Controller has handsfree microphone, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, built-in speaker, volume control button, multi-touch capacitive screen and motion control support.
- Allows to connect mouse and keyboard over bluetooth and forward their signals to PC.[1]
- Works on old Android 5.1 version.
- There is no application which sends Android Input over bluetooth.
General information
Inputs
- Motion sensing: 6 axis motion sensing (3-axis accelerometer, gyroscope)
- 1 × multi-touch capacitive screen
- 1 × microphone
- 2 × clickable analog sticks: LS, RS
- 2 × analog triggers: LT, RT
- 2 × digital shoulder buttons: LB, RB
- 9 × digital action buttons: 𝐀, 𝐁, 𝐗, 𝗬, 🔊 ᴠᴏʟᴜᴍᴇ, ⏵ sᴛᴀʀᴛ, ɴᴠɪᴅɪᴀ, ⮌ ʙᴀᴄᴋ, ⌂ ʜᴏᴍᴇ
- 4 × digital directional buttons (d-pad): ↑, ↓, ←, →
- GPS
Availability
Use with PC platforms
- Gamepad mapper allows to map physical buttons to touchscreen buttons. [2]
- Touchscreen controls - there are four basic touch commands used on Android devices:
- Tap / Touch (a finger version of a mouse click)
- Touch - Hold
- Drag: Used in combination with Touch - Hold and Drag
- Pinch: Most commands are single-finger with the exception of Pinch which requires two fingers.
Windows
- Applications Steam Link, Moonlight and Parsec allows to play on PC over WiFi connection.
- Not possible to pair via Bluetooth. There is no application which sends Android Input to PC over Bluetooth yet.
macOS
- Applications Steam Link and Parsec allows to play on PC over WiFi connection.
- Not possible to pair via Bluetooth. There is no application which sends Android Input to PC over Bluetooth yet.
Linux
- Applications Steam Link and Moonlight (host needs Sunshine application installed) allows to play on PC over WiFi connection.
- Not possible to pair via Bluetooth. There is no application which sends Android Input to PC over Bluetooth yet.
Steam
- Can be recognized as Xbox 360 controller but after manual assignment. Controller cannot be found in Supported Controller Database, so Steam recognizes it as standard DirectInput device.
- Requires PC streaming application support eg. Steam Link.
Support In Games
- Support for some controller features may be only available on certain systems. Refer to game-specific articles for details.
Games with controller's speaker support
- Every game which allows to select separate playback audio device for specific sounds is supporting controller's built-in speaker, eg. Death Stranding's BB voice audio can be assigned to controller's speaker when other sounds are played from other audio device.
- Cemu emulator allows to assign Wii Remote speaker's audio to DualSense's speaker. In general settings/audio in gamepad audio tab is an option for selecting secondary audio device.
- Not every streaming application allows to be selected as different audio output.
Games with microphone support
- Requires to use additional applications which sends Android microphone input to PC over WiFi.
- Games with implemented voice chat are able to use controller's microphone.
- VoiceBot and VoiceAttack allows to control games and applications by voice commands.
- List of Microphone-controllerd computer games.
Games with motion control support
For a list of games, see List of games that support tracked motion controllers in non-VR gameplay.
- Android cemuhook allows to use motion control support in Nintendo emulators (Wii, Wii U, 3DS and Switch).[3] See more.
- Number of games which natively support motion controls is limited and gyro support is still not a PC standard.
Games with XInput button prompts
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- The controller's button positions and colors, and the amount of buttons, differ considerably from those of other Xbox controllers. As such, the list below should be treated with some caution.
- Please note, that this is only list for games that offer XInput button prompts.
- Some may require use of Xbox 360 controller emulation. Refer to game-specific articles for details.