Joystick Mapper is an application for Mac OS X that lets you map keyboard keys, mouse axes, mouse buttons and mouse wheel to any mac compatible joystick or gamepad button/axis/hat. In other words: This App will let you play any game or use any app with any mac compatible joystick or gamepad, even the ones that are not compatible with joysticks.
About the Application
Joystick Mapper is an application for Mac OS X that lets you map keyboard keys, mouse axes, mouse buttons and mouse wheel to any mac compatible joystick or gamepad button/axis/hat.
In other words: This App will let you play any game or use any app with any mac compatible joystick or gamepad, even the ones that are not compatible with joysticks.
Some review quotes:
★★★★★ - 'If your a gamer on a mac, you want this app.'
★★★★★ - 'The app is easy to use and makes a lot of sense.'
★★★★★ - 'Just the app I was looking for!'
★★★★★ - 'The app is easy to use and makes a lot of sense.'
★★★★★ - 'Just the app I was looking for!'
A video showing the app working with a popular mac game:
Another video showing the app working with a flash game inside a browser, and explaining briefly how to config the app:
Some screenshots:
The main screen (1st picture) lets you select a list of previously saved configurations that are easily modifiable.
In the configuration screen (2nd picture), just select the joystick input (buttons, axes, dpads) and the desired output (keyboard keys, mouse movement, scroll, etc).
Features:
- Use any axis, dpads or buttons on your joystick to simulate keyboard and mouse;
- Map any of the 4 directions from an Analog Stick independently;
- Analog Shoulder Triggers can be used as buttons;
- Smooth mouse movement;
- Adjust mouse speed for analog sticks per direction individually, this can help with crappy gamepads;
- Any 'weird' combination you want:
- Button/Dpad/Analog Stick/Analog Trigger --> Keyboard/Mouse/Click/Scroll;
- Ready-to-use examples, easily modifiable;
- Compatible with USB and Bluetooth Joysticks;
(If it does not explicitly say 'Mac compatible', please check compatibility. I have a list of tested gamepads here, please help expanding it) - Easy to use interface.
Requirements:
- A Mac with OS X 10.6.6 or higher;
- One or more USB or Bluetooth joysticks/Gamepads;
- Just a little bit of disc space.
Sometimes, we need to run or play a game which doesn’t support our xbox 360,ps2,ps3 gamepads or our gaming joysticks on computer, or sometimes just to simplify things and game playing, as playing using the normal keyboard + mouse combo can become tedious and boring too. Just imagine using an analog control (stick) and moving it instead of using the normal combination of A,S,D,Z,W to move the object or character , and using another stick to change the view :) , sounds interesting ? isn’t it , well indeed it is! , so following are 3 best free gamepad controller softwares which will help you to easily map keyboard inputs to mouse and thus get an edge playing the game!
Software # 1 – Xpadder
Xpadder for windows
Xpadder is one of the most widely recommended tools for controlling your gamepad or game controller on PC / Windows, though the new Xpadder version isn’t free, we can use the old xpadder version on newer windows versions to overcome this limitation.
Click here for tutorial to use an older xpadder version on Windows 7/8.1/10 with a detailed configuration steps to map keyboard/mouse inputs to Joystick / Gamepad.
Click here for tutorial to use an older xpadder version on Windows 7/8.1/10 with a detailed configuration steps to map keyboard/mouse inputs to Joystick / Gamepad.
Software # 2 – JoyToKey
Though Xpadder isn’t free we have a good free alternative game controller software another free alternative to xpadder – JoyToKey . JoyToKey helps to configure advanced controls and functionalities to gamepad buttons/analogs , with acceleration  and vibration support.
Click here to view advanced JoyToKey configuration tutorial to control your gamepad on PC.
Click here to view advanced JoyToKey configuration tutorial to control your gamepad on PC.
Software # 3 – Xbox360ce
Using Xbox 360 controller on PC becomes more easy if you’re using Xbox360ce, xbox360ce helps you use any controller on your pc / computer by assigning and mapping vaarious keyboard / mouse actions to gamepad buttons, and then generates the xinput.dll files, these xinput files then have to be copied to the game directory, before running the game executables. After copying the .dll files, execution of game let’s the inputs be given to the game directly from the gamepad controller! ,
Click here to for a detailed xbox360ce tutorial.
Click here to for a detailed xbox360ce tutorial.
So these are the best 3 free gamepad controller softwares to control game pad / joystick on PC / Computers for Windows 7 / 8.1 /10 , If you know of any good other such controllers, or face any problems while using them feel free  to comment