Xpadder v5.7

Andrew Lee on 29 Jul 2024
  • 1000KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 30 Jan 2023
  • Suggested by Fluffy

Xpadder assigns keystrokes to your gamepad, giving you the ability to use your gamepad with any application you want (including older games with poor or no gamepad support such as DOS games). It also supports multiple gamepads, so playing multiplayer games with individual gamepads is a breeze. Combine this program's powerful features with its intuitive design and the result is an application that no one owning a gamepad should be without.

Note: the program has gone payware. Linking to the last freeware version (thanks Napiophelios).

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder, though some editing of the .ini file is necessary for complete portability.
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Free for personal use
How to extract:
  1. Download the zip package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch XPadder.exe
  3. Close the application
  4. Open a text editor and edit the Xpadder.ini file located in the application folder
  5. Replace all paths with relative equivalents

Note that this will also be necessary if new controllers are added, as recent controllers and multiple controllers will be saved with absolute paths. Hopefully in a future version relative paths can be an optional default.

10 comments on Xpadder  The Portable Freeware Collection Latest Entries Feed

Andrew Lee 2024-07-29 21:08

@fcomer: Last freeware version appears to be available at: https://www.xpadder.org. I have updated the database entry to reflect this.

v5.7

fcomer 2024-07-28 02:57

Download link seems to be defunct.

v2008.1

Napiophelios 2014-07-17 00:53

FYI - You can still get the last free version 5.3 over at Freewarefiles.com. DL Link...
http://www.freewarefiles.com/Xpadder_program_21789.html

v2008.1

joby_toss 2013-04-01 05:15

Check the system requirements, please.

v2008.1

dilentec 2013-03-31 23:06

Failed to run freeware build on Windows 7 x64 SP1.

v2008.1

Mr.H 2009-11-24 15:28

FYI - You can still get the last free version 5.3 over at Softpedia.com. DL Link...http://download.softpedia.com/dl/e379a668cf72adcb9232ed1634aec517/4b0bfb42/100045445/software/system/Xpadder5-3.zip

Toasterfraker 2009-07-15 16:17

not a freeware any longer... another one of those programmers who became greedy once the app was noticed...

spchtr 2009-06-12 04:10

download link pointing to the xpadder home page, asking to buy the software now...

[BOT] Fluffy 2008-01-26 05:24

Webfork: You can find the Saitek p220 pad just about anywhere that sells electronics for about 10 bucks new. If you really wanted to get some serious style you could shell out some more money for Saitek's ProGamer Command Pad (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826127504.

Webfork 2008-01-19 15:36

Have no way of testing it but I'm interested in picking up a used or supercheap controller just so I can use the "control video/music players using media or shortcut keys" feature. That would be fantastic.

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