CRKD

App seems decent enough to navigate until you look for help, trying to add my device to the “collection” and continues to give me an error message saying please turn on Bluetooth to tap device. Bluetooth is clearly on, this maybe due to the phone is new? Guess IPhone 16 isn’t supported?

Recently got the Nitro Deck + for Christmas and when I tried to program using the app, it would not sync with it and constantly received “Connection Lost” messages.

Every time I try to remap the back and front buttons I lose connection within the app and the nitro deck + disconnects is really disappointing because I want to like this product.

This app has no worth at all. I purchased a controller to use with my phone. It works on less than half the games I own. The app has no features for on screen button mapping to help with games that don’t support controllers. All you can to is shop and check out social media for the company. And my controller won’t show up in the app. Waste of time.

Love the collectible nature & the new updates allow to you to customize your controller settings

I love this company and the products they sell. The app works amazing with the Neo s and soon the nitro + which I don’t have yet. I do wish I could move and sort my devices as I want. But that’s the only complaint. My favorite part is the ranking.

But recent update with support for Nitro Deck + (which I have coming from my preorder) says that’s the app update is not compatible with my device. It then links me to the devices that are compatible, which includes my device funnily enough (iPhone 14 Pro Max). Please fix before I get my Nitro Deck + so I can scan it into the app and be happy :)

This app’s priorities are messed up in the absolute most hilarious loser techbro way. If you’ve ever thought, “man, I wish physical game controllers could adopt the same manufactured-rarity pyramid scheme economics of the extremely brief NFT boom” then this is the only app for you. If you don’t care about any of that nonsense and just want to remap the buttons on your CRKD controller, this unfortunately is also the only app for you. Other things of note: 1. it’s just a dumb BT controller. It shouldn’t be this hard to connect it to an app. Usually takes me four or five attempts to get it to stick. 2. The first time I got it to connect, it ran a firmware update and then crashed directly to the springboard in the middle of said firmware update. Thankfully everything is fine, but for a brief moment I was super worried about having to return it and lose my extremely coveted diamond rarity status. 3. What’s up with this logo? This has some serious “The CTO’s nephew is going to State University for graphic design next year” energy. 4. I’m sorry. I can’t get over the NFT thing so I’m going to keep roasting it: The thing is, the controller is actually really nice so the company itself isn’t an outright scam. Was this a situation where all you wanted to do was make quality hardware, but none of the VC ghouls would fund a single idea unless it had a Silicon Valley grift attached to it? Hopefully y’all hit that ROI before you’re forced to cram “AI” into your next product. 5. Screw it. I’ll just say what everyone’s thinking. It’s the Dead Kennedys logo. I’m sorry but your CTO’s nephew just made the Dead Kennedys logo.

For starters. Why should I even need an account to update my firmware? 8BitDo doesn't force this sort of privacy invasion on its end users. There's absolutely no reason (other than selling your data - IE money) this should be required. That said it does work.

I’m here to bring some joy into this review group. I purchased a Neo S controller and the app works seamlessly. It kind weird it wants access to your video, camera, and photos so that it can make interaction video while you look up your devices rarity but… you don’t have to do any of that and can skip it if you want. Through the app, I’m able to tweak and tune my controllers vibration, trigger sensitivity, button layouts, firmware update, and more. It’s nice having deep links to the product manual and store page. I’ll be using this app much more because while you can do most of these actions using a combo of button presses… the amount of button press combos is absolutely insane and tuning your controller via the app is so much easier.