Joystick Mapper 4+

It was easy to get set up and playing using the example config for an FPS for a playstation controller.

Unfortunately, about every minute or so a certain direction just straight up wouldn't work. The most common directions to become blocked were left and down, by far.

Experimented with different windows settings, disabled my second monitor to make sure I wasn't somehow unfocusing the (fullscreen) game window, etc.

Occasionally if I would pause the game and mash all the buttons in a frenzy and unpause it would start working again (for a few seconds).

The games I tried were pretty much unplayable. It's like one of those bad dreams where you know what you need to do but you... just... can't... move... in... that... direction.

Three stars because this is obviously an indie shop doing the best they can and this is the best thing that's available now. Could easily be the games I was playing, too. You might have more luck. Support these guys so they can make a better future for mac gaming!

Fix this stuff and 5 stars is in your future! Thanks for trying!

Works great with my Xbox 360 USB controller. The homepage for this app is really good; there are lots of good tips there, like how to map a key combination (like Ctrl-R or whatever) to one controller button. The only thing that’s a little funky are the trigger buttons, LT and RT. These are usually used as throttles in games, since they can output a range of “pull” depending on how hard you’re pulling on the trigger. Every once in a while these seem to get a little “stuck” in the game I’m playing with this app. But I figure that’s a limitation of the Mac or the controller driver. Yes, you do need a controller driver if you’re using an Xbox controller. This app’s homepage talks about that too. The driver is free and it’s on Github, the open-source code-sharing site. I’ve been using this controller for ages with the open-source driver, to use it with Steam games and such. But I needed this app to use the controller with an old game that didn’t support controllers. Two things that would be nice: 1 - if controller buttons and triggers could be labeled the same way as they are on the controller, so that it’s easy to see what’s what. And 2 - being able to manually sort your keybinds. As it is, they can’t be sorted—they just stay in the order you add them. There is an alphabetical sort option but that’s not useful and doesn’t seem to work.

This app is not as intuitive as you would intially expect it to be—you can’t just plug in a controller and make it work right away as some people might expect (probably why so many don’t like the app). Regardless, after a quick online tutorial I got my PowerA USB controller to work perfectly for my game. Just an fyi: YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE CUSTOM SETTINGS FOR EACH GAME. (it gets easier after the first time). I think a lot of the issues people are having can be resolved by understanding how the settings of the app work: for example, I kept having my cursor move off the screen and bring up my dock, but I figured out there is a "lock cursor to main screen" function and now I don’t have that issue. I ESPECIALLY like the scan function, it makes it really easy to attach keys to the different parts of my controller. Without the scan function, I don’t think this would be a very good app, because it makes everything so much easier to set up.