[vouaobrasil]

One thing this could be cool for is games like Goldeneye, which is hard to play on PC because it expects that weird joystick input. It would be awesome to have a native Goldeneye port with normal mouse behaviour like other FPSes.

[whateveracct]

WASD with mouse aim control doesn't really work with the game though.

The modal aspect of aiming combined with the travel time/return-to-center of the cursor is a really fun part of the game. If you could just free-aim while running a la PC FPS it would kind of ruin the campaign since everything is designed around this. Picking your spots and keeping cool while aiming are the appeal.

That said, if you keep the modal aspect and have the mouse just 1) rotate Bond like left/right on the stick does and 2) control the cursor only in "aim mode" (hit R)..then I think that could be fun.

Tbh, I wish shooters didn't go straight to Quake-style WASD+mouse free-aim across the board. The modal aspect makes gives Goldeneye a certain physicality I really like.

[X0Refraction]

Weirdly Goldeneye did have a control layout where you could move with one joystick and aim with the other using 2 controllers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZaEpugk3hY

[hot_gril]

That's how I played, and while the N64 joysticks aren't very good, it was alright. The much bigger problem was lag.

[GardenLetter27]

Yeah, it's awesome as you can set this up relatively easily with EmuDeck and play it with the two sticks on the Steam Deck.

[anthk]

Deus Ex has quake controls but you need to focus a little before aiming. Then, later you get upgrades and laser reticles allowing you to shoot near instantly.

[AlecSchueler]

You can turn off auto aim in the game though. Always the first thing I do.

[terramex]

There is emulator hack for Goldeneye that add WASD + mouse support and I heard that it works great.

https://github.com/Graslu/1964GEPD/releases/tag/latest

[fl0ki]

I played this a couple of years ago and it was already really solid back then. Do you know if they've figured out a way to do gyro aim since then? That'd be perfect for the growing number of devices inspired by the Switch and more recently Steam Deck.

[hot_gril]

Something's wrong with it, maybe related to the framerate. I can run and shoot a lot faster than before, but enemies take just as long as the old version to aim. I was able to beat levels on 00 mode with ease, mostly by sprinting past enemies.

[wodenokoto]

Wouldn't it still expect a weird joystick?

[haiku2077]

The native ports have additional features, which are easy to implement starting from the native compilation. For example, the native port of Zelda has gyro aiming and automatic autosave options.

[vouaobrasil]

Well I was hoping there'd be a way to translate mouse input into the joystick input in a straightforward way that isn't available on emulators.

[haiku2077]

It could be done with native mouse control. No joystick intermediate- instead modify the C code to allow direct control of the player character with a mouse.

[ThrowawayTestr]

The mouse+wasd hack works really well. Also works with Perfect Dark.