Joy2Key Alternatives for Linux
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 five 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, jstest-gtk 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.
DiscontinuedThe latest release was on November 5th, 2016. A new generation of the program called
AntiMicroX is available.
AntiMicro vs Joy2Key opinions
AndrewUbergeekIt's more recently developed and highly configurable
QJoyPad is a free Linux/QT program that lets you control any keyboard XWindows program with a gaming device
Features
DiscontinuedThe program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.1.0, released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
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.
Features
jstest-gtk is a simple joystick tester based on Gtk+. It provides you with a list of attached joysticks, a way to display which buttons and axis are pressed, a way to remap axis and buttons and a way to calibrate your joystick.
DiscontinuedNo news since May 2009
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.
DiscontinuedThe program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.8.1, released in September 2008, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.