Controller-specific guides for using gamepads with InputMapper — and honest notes on the ones it cannot handle.
Here is the part of InputMapper’s story that rarely gets told: it was never only a PlayStation tool. Read the official input list and you will find the Xbox 360 Controller and the Xbox One Controller listed as supported input devices, right alongside the DualShock 4 and DualShock 4 V2. In other words, InputMapper can…
This is the honest sibling of our DualSense page, and it opens the same way: the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller is not in InputMapper’s official input list, so do not expect InputMapper to handle it. That list names the DualShock 4, the DualShock 4 V2, the Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers, the DualShock 3…
Not every controller worth using has a famous logo on it. The arcade stick you built from parts, the older gamepad that has survived three PCs, the budget wheel in the corner — on Windows, most of these speak DirectInput, the older and broader of Microsoft’s two controller APIs. And here is the good news,…
The DualShock 4 is the controller InputMapper was built around, and both revisions of it sit at the top of the official input list: Sony DualShock 4 and Sony DualShock 4 V2 are listed as separate, first-class input devices. That means whichever revision you own, you do not need a workaround, a wrapper, or a…
The prerequisite, stated before anything else: the DualShock 3 works with InputMapper ONLY through a Mayflash Magic-NS dongle. It is not native support. Read InputMapper’s official input list carefully and you will see the entry written exactly that way — Sony DualShock 3 (via Magic-NS Dongle). The dongle is not an optional accessory that improves…
This is the honest page, and it starts with the answer many sites bury: you cannot properly use a DualSense with InputMapper. Not “it is tricky,” not “results may vary” — the timeline simply does not allow it. InputMapper’s final build, 1.7.7452.13622, dates to May 2020. The DualSense launched on November 12, 2020, roughly half…
