Alternatives to Pad2Key for all platforms with any license

Xpadder

Xpadder simulates the keyboard and mouse using your gamepad What does Xpadder let you do? - Play PC games with poor or no gamepad support - Add gamepad support to...

Commercial Windows
Easy to add / edit categories Full controller support Huge Controller Support Key rebinding Add a feature

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JoyToKey

JoyToKey enables you to control any softwares (e.g. browsers, games on the web, Microsoft office applications or even Windows itself) by using your favorite windows...

Commercial Windows
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Pinnacle Game Profiler

Pinnacle Game Profiler allows you to emulate your keyboard and mouse with your video game controller, and otherwise customize the controller's behavior. Many PC...

Commercial Windows
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ControllerMate

ControllerMate is a controller programming tool that allows you to customize the behavior of your HID devices — keyboards, keypads, mice, trackballs, joysticks...

Commercial Mac OS X
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jstest-gtk

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...

Free Open Source Linux
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3 Like
- Discontinued No news since May 2009
MotionInJoy DS3 Tool

MotioninJoy is a software that makes your PS3 and XBOX controllers work with your PC. It installs a driver for you and you can set up the controller to work.

Free Windows
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- Discontinued The official website and the SourceForge project page have both been removed. Last version, 1.0005, released in December 2013, can be downloaded here: http://www.xinputer.com/download/MotioninJoy_071001_signed.zip and here: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/temp/sf2015/d/ds/ds3tool/DS3%20Tool%2064-bit/
- Warning Has been reported to have trojan/other kind of virus embedded in the code.
Enjoy2

Enjoy2 is a simple program for OSX that allows you to transform joystick inputs into keyboard or mouse events. If you've ever played a video game which only...

Free Open Source Mac OS X
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Joystick 2 Mouse

Joystick to mouse (also known as joy2mouse) let's you control the mouse and keyboard using your joystick or gamepad. Joystick 2 Mouse has many applications : -...

Free Windows
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Keysticks

Control your PC using an Xbox controller instead of the mouse and keyboard

Commercial Windows
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ControlMK

ControlMK is an utility which uses DirectInput controllers to emulate mouse, keyboard, and other types of commands.

Free Windows
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- Discontinued Last version, 0.232, was released on September 2004. You can still download it from the official website.
QJoyPad

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

Free Open Source Linux
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- Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.1.0, released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
VJoy Virtual Joystick

VJoy Virtual Joystick is a software application and virtual driver system that allows keyboard input to be translated to joystick input.

Free Personal Windows
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J2K

There are already very feature-rich joystick to keyboard mappers out there, be it JoyToKey or XPadder. However, both are not Freeware and both lack the possibility to...

Free Windows
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rejoystick

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...

Free Open Source Linux
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- Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.8.1, released in September 2008, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.