Battleangel | Personal

One problem that I’ve come across in many recent games is that while they do support a gamepad, it’s always the XBOX360 controller and rarely anything else. As I was playing through Just Cause 2 I wanted to try and supplement keyboard driving with an analog stick alternative but alas found no support for my Logitech Rumblepad II.

Well, it turns out that there is actually a way of emulating the XBOX360 controller for individual games and without overwriting system files. The Xinput controller emulator (with vibmod) simply translates direct input commands to xinput and makes any gamepad work seamlessly with XBOX360-supporting Games For Windows titles.

Sadly, while I got it working flawlessly, I could never get used to a gamepad in this title either. I mean come on. FPS game with grappling, parachuting, jumping, aiming, rolling and god knows what else all at the same time. My proficiency with a gamepad remains extremely low and I don’t foresee learning to use one any time soon.