I think the Steam Input Gamepad Emulation should support Xbox, PlayStation and Switch glyphs. At least that's what the documentation says. No idea how well this works in practice, but maybe someone else can chime in.

From personal experience, I found that most PC games made from 2006 onward pretty much expect an Xbox controller, if they offer controller support at all. For my own use case, I found that connecting a wired Xbox 360 controller to the PC was the simplest solution. It has official drivers for both WinXP and Win7, with fully functional rumble support as well. More importantly, the in-game button prompts match what's on the controller, and everything just works.

Yep, nintendo always did that. those b holes

and then there's also the sony confirm button swap between circle and cross differing in some regions to be aware of

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2024-06-02, 13:23:

I think the Steam Input Gamepad Emulation should support Xbox, PlayStation and Switch glyphs. At least that's what the documentation says. No idea how well this works in practice, but maybe someone else can chime in.

What about for games that aren't Steam games tho (like for example, a game you bought on GOG)?

Also really I'm not asking for different glyph support... just a way to remap which glyph goes with which button.

leileilol wrote on 2024-06-02, 13:36:

Yep, nintendo always did that. those b holes

Nintendo were the first ones to pioneer the typical four button layout, with the SNES controller... the Playstation came later with their symbols, and the Xbox much later again with the same letters arranged differently.

I usually try to figure out the keyboard controls and then set something up in JoyToKey. Sometimes I have to write out a cheatsheet to remind myself what buttons map where. JoyToKey doesn't always work, there was one game that would outright crash when my controller was plugged in. I think I used X360CE for that one, which basically simulates the X360 controller instead of simulating keypresses.

jmarsh wrote on 2024-06-02, 13:50:

Nintendo were the first ones to pioneer the typical four button layout, with the SNES controller... the Playstation came later with their symbols, and the Xbox much later again with the same letters arranged differently.

Nintendo's been doing the reversed letters since the NES. XBOX didn't invent the other way around - SEGA were doing XYZ ABC at least with the 6-button genesis/md pads (and Dreamcast did XY / AB)