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).
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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: |
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. |
Download link seems to be defunct.
v2008.1
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
Check the system requirements, please.
v2008.1
Failed to run freeware build on Windows 7 x64 SP1.
v2008.1
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
not a freeware any longer... another one of those programmers who became greedy once the app was noticed...
download link pointing to the xpadder home page, asking to buy the software now...
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.
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.
@fcomer: Last freeware version appears to be available at: https://www.xpadder.org. I have updated the database entry to reflect this.
v5.7