[Serg86]

The core has a resolution of 256x239, which is an aspect ratio of 1.071129707112971. Does that solve the mystery of your missing pixels? Can you use the "zoom" action to resize the game to fullscreen?

Yes, the width is too low, it should be 320x240 for 4:3. None of the modes help, because they either zoom in way too much without changing the aspect ratio or stretch it to 16:9, which is horrible for 4:3 games - or anything for that matter, in my opinion.

How did you map the dpad to the main controller? The debug log contains all input, so this might show us what's wrong.

I mapped the available buttons, didn't press anything during the ones my controller doesn't have and let it count down to abort.

The button mapping process is split into two parts: everything is mapped to a 360 controller, then the 360 controller is mapped to Kodi actions. Only the 360-controller mapping can be changed in the GUI (by configuring the "Kodi" controller). The 360-to-Kodi-action translation is controlled by joystick.xml.

What this means is that we can have a "meta" button that allows input to escape the game and be passed to joystick.xml. We can use both the Select and Guide/PS buttons to cover all controllers. A setting in Game Settings can also allow combos to be mapped to "meta", so the user could escape actions by pushing both triggers. That way, the user can only configure which buttons are "meta", but they'll have to modify joystick.xml to change the Kodi action.

Is it possible to only activate a Kodi action via combination? What I mean is, pressing Select on it's own will be used for the game, pressing and holding Select + another button performs a Kodi action. During gameplay that is, obviously having to hold Select to navigate Kodi would be a bad user experience, to say the least.

Defaults are great, but a GUI to configure them on top of good defaults would be ideal.

What I would like is something like this:


It would just list all the different controller types you connected and make them configurable. Behind the scenes, the "Use hotkey + key" toggle above would either create a hotkey+button combo for all the actions, or map the buttons directly.

I still have an N64 controller lying around, I'll buy one of those USB converters at some point. It doesn't have a select button. The next logical choice would probably be L or Start, Z is often used in combination with other buttons, so it's a bad choice.

PS: I watched Icculuses SDL talk as well, so I get what you mean by everything is an Xbox 360 controller .