I’ve installed the fitgirl repack of the original Bournout: Paradise on an old HP laptop running Linux Mint. The game runs fine but will not recognise input from my 8bitdo Pro2 controller.

The controller works on the laptop, as I can play Midtown Madness 2 with the controller no problem.

I’ve tried the Windows and Android modes of the controller, and neither of them work. I’ve installed the game through Lutris and it’s running on Wine.

Any help on workarounds for this is appreciated. The easiest solution would probably be a program that maps the controller inputs to the keyboard inputs for the game.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    6·
    12 days ago

    Steam is great at mapping controller input to keyboard. Just add the game through Lutris to Steam. You’ll have to restart Steam for that to take effect.

    Maybe if you add the game’s exe to Steam and run it with Proton Steam’s input magic will actually make the controller work natively.

  • anon5621@lemmy.ml
    1·
    11 days ago

    I was having same problem game itself weird behaving on gamepads ,so only adding game to steam as non steam game and from launching from there helped me.

    • tombruzzo [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Since this is an old laptop for my kids I don’t want to put Steam on there. I found a program called antimicro that translates controller inputs to keyboard keys so I’m going to try that out

  • tombruzzo [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    1·
    10 days ago

    I’ll comment my solution here in case anyone comes across this with a similar problem.

    I installed Antimicro, it comes up under slightly different names like AntimicroX but they should all be the same.

    I mapped buttons on the controller to the keyboard and it all worked. You just need to map the matching controls in the game to the controller keybinds.

    This was perfect for my use case because I bought my boys these controllers:

    (They’re 2 years old so I don’t want to get them good ones.)

    These controllers have a few problems with them. First is games and retroarch don’t seem to recognise the D-pad inputs like normal, and second is Midtown Madness 2 defaults to a joystick axis for steering and you can’t remap this.

    Antimicro has fixed these problems by mapping everything to the keyboard, allowed me to play Burnout: Paradise with a controller, and fixed the new problem of trying to play Midtown Madness 2 without analogue sticks.

    Antimicro is free and open source for Windows and Linux so it should sort you out on whatever platform you’re on. I made my own profile, but you can download existing profiles from the internet as well.