Xbox 360 controller problems

[kep]

I can't use my xbox 360 controller with emulated games. Does WinUAE support DirectInput or X-Input?

[Toni Wilen]

XBox 360 controllers should work fine (at least mine works). DirectInput and RawInput are used.

What do you mean by "can't use"? Does the controller appear in gameports GUI panel?

[kep]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

XBox 360 controllers should work fine (at least mine works). DirectInput and RawInput are used.

What do you mean by "can't use"? Does the controller appear in gameports GUI panel?

Yes, but the games don't work with it.
What is RawInput?

[Toni Wilen]

Click Remap/Test button next to joystick selection in GamePorts panel. Then click Test again, does anything happen when you press pad buttons etc?

RawInput is low level, low latency API that gets USB raw packets, lower then DirectInput or X-Input.

What Windows version?

[kep]

Yes, the button presses are detected.
I'm using Windows 7 64.

[Toni Wilen]

And d-pad also works in test mode too, I guess?

You sure you have your pad in correct Amiga joystick port? What games?

[kep]

Yes and yes. I've tried apidia and super cars 2.

[Toni Wilen]

Hmm.. I assume keyboard joystick emulation works? What if you set keyboard to both ports, have controller connected, start game, confirm that keyboard control works, then press xbox360 controller green button once. Does the pad now work?

(Include also winuaebootlog.txt)

[kep]

If I choose the controller without custom mapping it works. But I'd like to use custom mapping...

[Toni Wilen]

It would have been good idea to mention it in first post..

Attach your config file (with custom controller configuration) and I'll check it.

[kep]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

It would have been good idea to mention it in first post..

Attach your config file (with custom controller configuration) and I'll check it.

Sorry, I didn't know all the options of winuae.
I changed back to custom mapping and the game stopped recognizing the controller's input, only warp mode works.

[Toni Wilen]

How does it appear in Input panel?

I only have wireless version (which has different name and IDs) and only buttons are mapped in Input panel but config file does have "missing" direction events. Weird..

Directly using Input panel (with Configuration#x selected in top select menu) probably works but it should not be needed..

[kep]

Here are screenshots of the input panel.

[Toni Wilen]

How did you do the custom mapping? Using Input panel remap option or gameports remap?

Your screenshots says "Game Ports Panel" so you probably used Game Ports remap option but I don't understand how did you manage to get directions mapped to [-]/[+] events. It should automatically merge separate events to single horizontal (X) or vertical (Y) movement.

Test/Remap -> Delete All -> Remap -> dpad left, dpad right (separate events merged here), dpad up, dpad down (another merge), fire1, fire2, F12, (add extra events if needed), ESC. Done. (This works for me)

D-pad ("Hat Switch") mapped to [-]/[+] events cause stuck directions because d-pad does not have real "release" event.

Only way I can do this is to do something crazy like pressing left when mapping to right direction and vice versa.

There must be some use case I have missed..

[kep]

It now works! I wasn't using the remap button, I was double-clicking on the actions.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by kep

It now works! I wasn't using the remap button, I was double-clicking on the actions.

Thanks, this was the missed use case. It still should merge them instead of creating useless mapping config.

[Toni Wilen]

It was actually by design.. Single remaps are designed to not do automatic "merging", there are some situations where it is not wanted.

I guess something needs to be done to make it less confusing but I am not sure what..