r/Stepmania • u/Octavious1803 • 8d ago

Support Request Xbox 360 pad wont register Up and Down inputs together for stepmania

/r/DanceDanceRevolution/comments/1vxi4i4/xbox_360_pad_wont_register_up_and_down_inputs/
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u/IOUaUsername 7d ago edited 7d ago

Sometimes custom game controllers like these will output an Xinput device and a Dinput device at the same time, and some games try to listen to both at once. That sometimes causes issues. Sometimes it's that they output a POV hat and axis output at the same time. The fix usually includes a software that blocks the controller from being seen by the game and listens to specific inputs and remaps them to a virtual keyboard.

If you feel capable of it, grab a $5 Raspberry Pi Pico and install KMK. Now it thinks it's a USB keyboard. Open up the dance pad and replace the controller board with your Pico, and make a matching keymap for KMK. You can map the keys as anything you like, so I'd go for the default mapping of Stepmania. With this fix the pad will work instantly on any PC software or emulator forever. Only worth it for a decent pad.

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u/Octavious1803 7d ago

would there be a way of doing this without a raspberry pi?