Homebrew Question Shockolate - System Shock

[capsterx]

I was looking over game suggestion ports and saw Shockolate. Getting the game to 'play' was pretty trival. However, when I looked to mapping the game keys there are a lot of them (walk, run, dive, climb, bank, thrust, look, lean, jump, etc). Does anyone have suggestions for mapping the switch controller to the SS system. I have never played it so I dont really know what would work best.

 

[mathew77]

mapping the switch controller

Maybe you can make a .config file to remap buttons? Just an idea.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Not every binding is essential in these old games.

I've never played SS but I'd bet money that "lean" doesn't ever need to be used.

Also, you really ported System Shock to Switch? That's pretty great. Any screenshots?

 

[eyeliner]

There's a steam topic about that, if you want to take a look...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1447863347

 

[capsterx]

There's a steam topic about that, if you want to take a look...
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1447863347

Thanks! This looks like good info for the mappings.

 

[capsterx]

Not every binding is essential in these old games.

I've never played SS but I'd bet money that "lean" doesn't ever need to be used.

Also, you really ported System Shock to Switch? That's pretty great. Any screenshots?

I got it to run, but non of the controller input works as the sdl version doesn't use the controller pad or joy pad, so I'm pretty sure it should work once the mapping works. The game controls seem to heavily use multiple modifiers which I think can be mapped to the triggers.

 

[cucholix]

Is there a native port on Switch or you are running it under other platform?

 

[mathew77]

Is there a native port on Switch

It's native I guess.

 

[capsterx]

Is there a native port on Switch or you are running it under other platform?

Native switch https://github.com/Interrupt/systemshock is a SDL open source version, so most of the work is just in mapping the keys and a few minor tweaks here and there.

 

[xitpu]

omg I loved sshock 1 and 2
I think still is not ported to the switch

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Will you be releasing this or was it not in a playable enough state? You've done good work lately capsterx!

 

[capsterx]

Will you be releasing this or was it not in a playable enough state? You've done good work lately capsterx!

I actually forget where I left off on this. I got sidetracked on a game that uses sqlite3 and it's driving me crazy I cannot get it to work. The database opens and nothing ever gets written into it and it errors out. Since I made this post I've made a pretty generic key/touch/mouse mapper which should let people create their own mappings instead of hardcoding them as I did in some of my early ports. I'll take a look sometime next week and see if it's as easy as plugging that into the event loop.

 

[Basketto]

Idk if this helps, but since update 10.0.2 or so, you can map joycon buttons through system controller settings, and save a profile.

 

[capsterx]

Idk if this helps, but since update 10.0.2 or so, you can map joycon buttons through system controller settings, and save a profile.

It might! Though I think it likely still expects you to have a mouse/keyboard to setup the joycon, that's pretty normal assumption from what I've seen.