graphical Switch controller emulation
tearsofjoy is a pygame GUI for joycontrol. it was built for Raspberry Pi but should work with little effort wherever joycontrol does.
features:
- keyboard control: PC keyboard mappings to all Pro controller buttons (analog sticks not supported yet!)
- NFC tag browser: convenient search and selection of NFC tag .bin files
install joycontrol according to their instructions.
install pygame and janus (0.5 is currently incompatible, so specify an earlier version):
pip3 install pygame 'janus<0.5'
clone the tearsofjoy repository:
git clone https://github.com/ahihi/tearsofjoy.git
enter the cloned directory:
cd tearsofjoy
create a directory for NFC tags:
mkdir -p nfc
put any NFC tag .bin files you intend to use in the directory.
run the script:
sudo python3 tearsofjoy.py
on the Switch, open the "Change Grip/Order" menu.
the main controller screen shows the buttons and their keyboard mappings. the buttons are greyed out until a successful connection to the Switch is made. to exit, press esc.
to open the NFC tag browser, press the key mapped to nfc_load. in the browser, scroll through files using the up/down arrow keys. you can also type to filter the available files. select a file by pressing enter.