[PATCH] winebus.sys: Allow XBOX Masquerade to be turned off

[Zebediah Figura]

On 11/19/2018 10:57 AM, Andrew Eikum wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 04:08:10PM +1100, Brendan McGrath wrote:
>> Elite Dangerous appears to iterate input devices via
>> DInput and will only defer to XInput if there is a
>> HID device with a matching VID and PID.
>>
>> The current behaviour of the SDLBUS is to masquerade
>> any controller as an XBOX controller. This causes
>> Elite Dangerous to treat any other type of contoller
>> as a Joystick.
>>
>> This patch allows this masquerading behaviour to be
>> switched off via a REG_BINARY registry entry:
>> HKCU\Software\Wine\XInput\MasqueradeXBOXController
>>
>> 0 - Turns it off (so it uses the real VID and PID
>> 1 - Turns it on (so it uses the XBOX controller VID and PID)
>>
> 
> This seems kind of inelegant. Is there some way to programmatically
> distinguish the device you have from a more typical gamepad? Maybe
> some SDL function that classifies the device, or the presence of
> non-rumble FFB?
> 
> If not, another approach would be to have a VID/PID override in the
> registry, which defaults to the Xbox values, but users can unset to
> allow the true VID/PID through.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 

While we're at it, if we really do need a registry hack, a better place 
would probably be the existing WineBus key.