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by perillamint 655 days ago
I don't think it will work. Nothing can prohibit users from desolder the stick and putting a microprocessor with DAC in place of them.

Actually, those kinds of mod is frequently performed by gamers, because lots of people wants to replace analogue potentiometer with hall-effect sensor with microprocessor, which provides much more durability compared to the Alps potentiometer stick. (and no one likes to play with a drifting Dualsense or Joy-Con)

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At the end of the day, as long as there is player input, cheaters always can simulate it/enchance it.

But the deeper your anticheat detection, the higher friction there is for cheater.

Having to get extra hardware/modify existing one is a huge leap in friction, and probably filters out an overwhelming majority of wannabe cheaters