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

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

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...

• Warning The installer of the program is suspected to have a malware inside. Be careful!

Commercial Windows

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

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...

• Discontinued No news since May 2009

Free Open Source Linux

Keysticks

Control your PC using an Xbox controller instead of the mouse and keyboard. Keysticks is free, open source software released under the Eclipse Public License v1.0.

Free Open Source Windows

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.

• 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.

Free Windows

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

ControlMK

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

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

Free Windows

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

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...

• Discontinued The J2K website has been inactive since 2014 and the program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.2, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Windows

QJoyPad

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

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 4.1.0, released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

Free Open Source Linux

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...

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 0.8.1, released in September 2008, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

Free Open Source Linux