GamepadToKeyboard-PlayniteExtension

🎮 GamepadToKeyboard-PlayniteExtension

🕹️ Emulate mouse and keyboard input with your gamepad in a quick, easy and highly customizable manner.

• This extension lets you send mouse and keyboard input with your controller, so you can use it in games without gamepad support, or where some controller buttons (in particular LT and RT) do not work.
  Perfect for old games without native controller support or with incomplete Xinput functionality.
• The program is very easy to use and configure: just edit the assignments in the .ini file and the application will be started automatically after launching the game.
• A dedicated config can be created per game, or a global config can be used for all games.
• Also possible to browse the config to use directly from the menu panel, or create a list of favourite configs that can be switched via sub-menu.
• Multiple games can be selected at once. Every new config will be created.
• The program’s functionalities can be changed with a click through the menu.
• Clear and intuitive: “LED” icons indicate the state of the program, the active config and much more.
• The program also allows fine control over several controller aspects: deadzones (per stick, axis, or direction), axis inversion and more.
• Config files can be edited and reloaded on-the-fly using a hotkey, without restarting the application.
• In future I’ll add MACRO, COMBO and TURBO functionalities. Stay tuned.

⚠️ GamepadToKeyboard requires an Xinput controller (native or emulated via tools like DS4Windows, DualSenseX, x360ce, etc.).

⚙️ How it works

• Turn On|Off the program by clicking the 1st menu item. When Enabled, the program is automatically executed after launching the defined (activated) games.
• Activate a game by clicking the 2nd menu item, and the game will be added in Gamelist.ini (with its name, id, source and/or platform). An assignment config (gameid.ini) for that game will be created.
• You can open the game config by clicking Edit game config.
• Edit Gamelist.ini by clicking the 3rd menu item. Gamelist.ini contains the games for which GamepadToKeyboard will work. When a gameid is set to 1 the game is active; when set to 0 the game is not active and GamepadToKeyboard will not be launched.
• Use a personal, external config for all games by setting UseCustomIni = 1 (editing Gamelist.ini, or through the menu panel) and specifying the file in FileIni).
• You can also explore and select it via Select custom ini file (all games).
• In QuickIniProfile.ini you can edit a list of “favourite” configs that can be switched through Quick ini profiles (all games) item menu. The sub-menu is dynamically built: its size varies with the number of elements.
• The program can also load a config if passed as parameter via command line, or by drag and drop it to GamepadToKeyboard.exe. Make sure that GamepadToKeyboard is disabled in Playnite, or that the target game is deactivated.
• In a multiple selection, if the games are in a mixed state (some games activated, some games deactivated, others not added) the extension automatically adds the new entries in Gamelist.ini and activates all of them.

🔄 Live config reload

• Configuration files can be edited while the game is running.
• Just press the Hotkey (Shift+Ctrl+5 by default) to instantly reload the current .ini, without restarting the application.
• The Hotkey can be customized in GamepadToKeyboard.config.
  

🕹️ Button assignments

Values you can assign to the buttons:

• A..Z, 0..9, F1..F12
• common buttons: Enter, Space, Esc, Lalt, Lshift, Lctrl, Lwin
• mouse buttons: LBmouse, RBmouse, MBmouse, WheelUp, WheelDown
• Please check the bottom of this page to find the possible key assignments.

default.ini example:

Button	Keys	‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎	Button	Keys	‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎	Button	Keys	‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎	Button	Keys
A	Enter		Back	F1		LSup	W		Home	Esc
B	Space		Start	Esc		LSdown	S
X	Lshift		LS	LShift		LSleft	A
Y	LCtrl		RS	MBmouse		LSright	D
LB	Q		Dup	Up		RSup
RB	E		Ddown	Down		RSdown
LT	RBmouse		Dleft	Left		RSleft
RT	LBmouse		Dright	Right		RSright

⚙️ Common controller options

Section	Option	Values / Description
Mouse	AnalogToMouse	1/0 : Turn On/Off the mouse movement via analog sticks.
	Stick	RS/LS : Analog to use. Button assignments ignored.
	DeadzoneType	1/2/4 : Both axis/ per axis/ per direction.*
	(Stick)AxisInverted	1/0 : Turn On/off axis inversion.
	Sensitivity	value : Mouse movement speed.
Analogs	DeadzoneType	1/2/4/8: Both sticks/ per stick/ per axis/ per direction.*
	(Stick)AxisInverted	1/0 : Turn On/off axis inversion.
Other	WheelAnalogvalues	1/0 : Progressive/Digital values when wheel is assigned to stick.
	SendKeysTypes	1: default; 2: alternate; 3: desktop mode (keyboard-style delay and repeat).*

⚠️ Notes

• The exe that comes with the extension is 64bit. The reason is that the x64 version of Autoit programs receive minor flags from AV engines. If you need the x86 one you can download it from the main in the repo, or from the attached files in the releases.
• The program does not contain any malicious behaviour. If your AV engine flags it as malware it’s a false positive. If so, please send GamepadTokeyboard.exe (or any associated flagged file) to your AV vendor asking for a false positive review request.

If you enjoy GamepadToKeyboard, you can buy me a coffee. It will be very appreciated ;)

• Github repo: 🐙 roop-p/GamepadToKeyboard
• Install directly: GamepadToKeyboard
• Download last version: v1.0.1

⌨️ List of assignable keys

SPACE, ENTER, ALT, BACKSPACE, BS, DELETE, DEL, UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, HOME, END, ESCAPE, ESC, INSERT, INS, PGUP, PGDN, F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, F12, TAB, PRINTSCREEN, LWIN, RWIN, NUMLOCK on, CAPSLOCK off, SCROLLLOCK toggle, BREAK, PAUSE, NUMPAD0, NUMPAD1, NUMPAD2, NUMPAD3, NUMPAD4, NUMPAD5, NUMPAD6, NUMPAD7, NUMPAD8, NUMPAD9, NUMPADMULT, NUMPADADD, NUMPADSUB, NUMPADDIV, NUMPADDOT, NUMPADENTER, APPSKEY, LALT, RALT, LCTRL, RCTRL, LSHIFT, RSHIFT, SLEEP, ALTDOWN, ALTUP, SHIFTDOWN, SHIFTUP, CTRLDOWN, CTRLUP, LWINDOWN, LWINUP, RWINDOWN, RWINUP, ASC nnnn, BROWSER_BACK, BROWSER_FORWARD, BROWSER_REFRESH, BROWSER_STOP, BROWSER_SEARCH, BROWSER_FAVORITES, BROWSER_HOME, VOLUME_MUTE, VOLUME_DOWN, VOLUME_UP, MEDIA_NEXT, MEDIA_PREV, MEDIA_STOP, MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE, LAUNCH_MAIL, LAUNCH_MEDIA, LAUNCH_APP1, LAUNCH_APP2, OEM_102

📝 *Option notes and other settings

Mouse‎	Deadzone	XDeadzone YDeadzone	XleftDeadzone XrightDeadzone YleftDeadzone YrightDeadzone
Analogs‎	Deadzone	LSDeadzone RSDeadzone	LSXDeadzone LSYDeadzone RSXDeadzone RSYDeadzone	LSleftDeadzone LSrightDeadzone LSupDeadzone LSdownDeadzone RSleftDeadzone RSrightDeadzone RSupDeadzone RSdownDeadzone

Other	SendKeysTypes:	1 Simple press (desktop single press, works well in games).	2 Continuous press on desktop, same as type 1 in games.
		3 Desktop-like behavior (keyboard-style delay and repeat). Same as the previous types in games.	4 Desktop-alt experimental (not recommended). In-game behavior as previous types.

UseSameWheelSpeedLimiter: 1\|0 –> Use same value for WheelUp and WheelDown	WheelSpeedLimiter: limit scroll speed	WheelSpeedLimiterUp: WheelUp limiter	WheelSpeedLimiterDown: WheelDown limiter

Mouse	SmoothFactor:	How smooth the movement should be (1 = no smoothing, near 0 = very smooth, values below 0.1 may make the cursor too slow. 0 blocks the cursor, be cautious)

🎖️ Credits

This gamepad script was written in AutoIt.
The program makes use of a remodified version of the XInput UDF by Oxin8 (xoninx@gmail.com) to read Xinput states.