Steam Beta improves controller support for 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless, 8BitDo Pro 2 and more

This is great. Valve released a new Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck that brings Steam Input improvements for various controllers.

Back in April I covered that Valve were working to adjust Steam Input to provide support for the extra buttons on The 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller and now they have. Not just that though, multiple controllers now have this feature!

Changelog (it's the same across Desktop / Steam Deck):

• Added the ability to bind the paddles and L4/R4 buttons on the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller when connected via Bluetooth.
• Added the ability to bind the paddles on the 8BitDo Pro 2 Controller when in DirectInput mode.
• Added the ability to bind the paddles and C/Z buttons on the FlyDigi Vader series controllers.
• Added the ability to bind the paddles on the FlyDigi Apex series controllers.
• Fixed input when using the latest firmware for the Mayflash GameCube adapter.

It's a shame for 8BitDo that you can't do the extra buttons using their wireless adapter, but good to see it here anyway. You will likely need firmware updates to get it working.

Checking it out with my own 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller, there's a new slider to enable Extended Button support in Steam Input. Which then allows the buttons to actually show up in the configurator. Oddly though, the button doesn't like to stay selected which might be a bug. Every time I come back out of the button config, the slider to enabled Extended Button support is unchecked again.