[Bug 25729] Dead Space joypad always looks up

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25729

--- Comment #18 from Rixa <rixa at cs.tut.fi> ---
It is possible to remap the axes, either in wine (see my Comment 8) or the game
itself. The latter is through a file in My Documents (I think it's your home
directory in wine by default) at "Electronic Arts/Dead Space/joypad.txt". There
is a joypad_example.txt there that may give a clue of how it's done.

Unfortunately this will still not yield a perfect configuration since it is not
possible to assign button actions to the analogue triggers through either
method, and it gets to be a bummer for Dead Space.

However, Dead Space also supports XInput. Wine doesn't, but I have had good
results using the third party program x360ce, with this game and many others
that do. All the controls work, and as an added bonus it has AntiDeadZone
features that help undo some of the control weirdness of the PC port.

The setup program needs a bunch of dotnet winetricks to run, I don't even have
the list of them all. They are only needed to build the configuration though,
once it's ready you just drop it as x360ce.ini with the custom xinput1_3.dll to
the game directory and that's it.

Well, for Dead Space you'll also want to make sure the joypad.txt (see the
first paragraph) file is empty, or you will get surprising results. I think
it's trying apply those in addition to what it's getting from XInput.

In general I think it would be really neat and make many newer games run so
much smoother with a gamepad if wine just supported XInput out of the box, at
least for the known microsoft controllers that pretty much define it.

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