antimicro is a graphical program used to map keyboard keys and mouse controls to a gamepad. This program is useful for playing PC games using a gamepad that do not have any form of built-in gamepad support.



There are many alternatives to Joy2Key for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is AntiMicro, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Joy2Key and four of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Joy2Key are QJoyPad, SDL2 Gamepad Tool and rejoystick.
antimicro is a graphical program used to map keyboard keys and mouse controls to a gamepad. This program is useful for playing PC games using a gamepad that do not have any form of built-in gamepad support.



QJoyPad is a free Linux/QT program that lets you control any keyboard XWindows program with a gaming device



It's a simple GUI tool to create/modify gamepad mappings for games that use SDL2 Game Controller API. Created to be an alternative to Steam Bigpicture gamepad configurator.

Rejoystick - A gamepad/joystick translator/keymapper
Rejoystick is a program that maps keypresses on your gamepad/joypad/joystick to keypresses on a keyboard when you are running X. Since it uses SDL to communicate with the gamepad device, it can work on every platform that prov.
It's more recently developed and highly configurable