• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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    23 days ago

    They don’t do that because the controller chip will cancel vibration after a while. The reason for that is exactly what you would imagine people used it for.

    You’d need to mod the controller with a custom chip.

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      23 days ago

      The reason for that is exactly what you would imagine people used it for.

      That does not make absolutely any sense at all. Why would they care about what people in private use controllers for? Why would they care enough to actively program something preventing that?

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      23 days ago

      Got a source for that? It’s pretty easy to manually make controllers vibrate until you tell them to stop

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      How long is “a while?” I added this to a game but never tested it beyond a few minutes. The player can toggle it on or off, it is intended to stay on until toggled off as I did not add a timer to it.

      Also, if there is a restriction at the firmware level, I suspect the reasoning would be as more of a safety measure to prevent excessive motor wear or battery drain.