Way to control the interface with controller?

[SilverEye1991]

Is there a way to do it? I.e. if I want to change games, can I do that with a controller? I figured out how to do save states, pause, exit game and whatnot but the closest I could find in the settings was "change disc" which still requires me to go to the computer and pick the disc with the file manager. Maybe there's a way I don't know about? A different application entirely that can do it maybe? All I essentially need to do is map the arrow keys to the D-pad and enter to A and I should be singing.

[mstreurman]

You could use Joy2Key to do exactly that... https://joytokey.net/en/

Keep in mind this will change all input's made with the controller to analog inputs (at least if you set up your analog sticks to do that) and I think you must assign the controls used by joytokey as keyboard inputs in the Dolphin configuration. I don't know if it causes extra input lag though...

[SilverEye1991]

You could use Joy2Key to do exactly that... https://joytokey.net/en/

Keep in mind this will change all input's made with the controller to analog inputs (at least if you set up your analog sticks to do that) and I think you must assign the controls used by joytokey as keyboard inputs in the Dolphin configuration. I don't know if it causes extra input lag though...

Hm, I knew of some programs like that but didn't know if any of them were decent. Thanks for the tip with joytokey.

Tried it out and it seems to work fine. So far no noticeable lag but kind of tricky to know which keys I need to map. Alt and tab I figured out were useful too when Dolphin crashed on me. I only wish there was a way to map a button combination on the controller to a keyboard input but it doesn't look like it.



If someone finds this thread and wants to do it to then note that there's an option for "auto-repeat" for button presses if you double-click the row in the joytokey app. Just set how often you want it to repeat. I did this so I can scroll properly through the menu. (Otherwise it will just register one press).