Translates the XInput calls to DirectInput calls on MAC OS X (Emulate x360 controller from PS3 one)

Question

There are a lot of games in steam working with x360 controllers but not mapped properly with a PS3 DS3 controller...

MotionInJoy do it clean with "emulate 360 controller" but it works only on PC. There is another PC-only project : x360ce : https://code.google.com/p/x360ce/

Here is the question : is there any solution for mac os x ? If not, why !?

Elusion

Controllers are primarily output-only. That is, they mostly send signals: I pressed this button, have this axis pushed this much, etc. So I think (not sure) that the controller is sending DirectInput and most steam games want to receive XInput. All this to say maybe rephrase as "Translates DI calls to XI"? – Hexavalent

Answer 1

There is not a solution on OSX that reads DirectInput and emulates XInput.

I took a look at x360ce. It uses SharpDX to communicate on both DirectInput and Xinput APIs, so it'd be a great start for an app like this. Problem is it's written in C#. This is why there is no solution in OSX--the best library for interfacing with DI/XI is written (naturally) in a Microsoft language.

I think we'd need something like Mono to run .cs on mac, I'm not sure.

Not a small project to either write a native interface to DI/XI or run SharpDX on a mac, but it'd be pretty educational.

Hexavalent