Step 3 - Mapping the keyboard keys to your pad

First create a new layout for your pad (the pad icon on the left), you'll get several options (sticks, d-pads, triggers, etc) to configure. It's really straightforward, just press the buttons on your pad and they'll appear on the purple screen, then arrange them the way you want (conveniently the same way as they are on your controller) so you can easily know what each key is by just pressing it.





Purely for aesthetics, you can also add an image of your pad (that you can either find in the image database included with the program, or one that you can make from scratch yourself).



Here are 2 of my profiles for a 360 controller and a Madcatz TE arcade stick for those who might be interested:

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Now you'll have to check every keyboard keys used by the game. So start your game, hit the option menu and take note of the keys you're interested in. Then just click on one of your pad's blank boxes in xpadder, and choose the respective key from the virtual keyboard that just popped up. Repeat the process for all of your buttons, save your second profile, and voilà !

Remember to let xpadder run in the background while playing.

Assuming you've picked xpadder, after downloading it, extract its content and run the .exePlug in your controller, and if your windows is able to detect it, so will xpadder, in most cases.You'll have to create 2 profiles, one for your pad (a standard layout for the controller), and another one for the game specifically.Once again, there are plenty of tutorials that will explain how to use xpadder in-depth better than I can, but I'll still briefly show you around the program, feel free to fiddle with it yourself as well, it's not exactly rocket-science and it's really easy to use.You can also change the sensitivity and deadzone of your sticks to your liking, switch the in-game directions from joystick to pad, or even right stick, map the mouse to a stick (so you can browse the internet or casually use your computer with your pad if you want to), set a command to several buttons, or map 2 commands on a single button, which can be quite useful in some games.