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Well said - this is one of the best reasons to add rear buttons to controllers imho, removing that goddamn L3 for running. This is literally the first thing I remap to rear buttons, modding every controller since ps4 to do so, and gaming with steam/proton now under linux, using the 8bitdo pro2 as well.

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Unfortunately SCUF managed to acquire a patent for rear buttons, and they successfully defended it in court when Valve put them on the Steam Controller without licensing it. That means rear buttons are unlikely to come to standard-issue controllers any time soon, only more expensive premium models, since SCUFs cut has to be factored into the price.

> patent for rear buttons

Being not familiar with games joysticks area (a keyboard user) this reads as mad as it can. Feels it's like a minefield. Is there anything from this area left not patented yet?

At least Nintendo's D-Pad patent expired. All other console manufacturers had to come up with workarounds for a long time, and sometimes they were bad (e.g. the Xbox 360 solid circle D-Pad).

I do this on my Steam Deck. I love how it has so many buttons on the back.

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