This is a short note to myself: i've been fighting with controllers in linux on and off for a while. It's been good to see support naturally get better over time, but for some reason in some games random buttons are swapped around: the right shoulder button would act as start, for example. For most of these games, running the windows version through wine solved the problem, but i don't feel particularly satisfied with that solution, as it balloons the size of the game on disk and has more moving parts. Anyway, it turns out the solution is quite simple: the gamecontrollerdb.txt file used by sdl is out of date. I'd guessed it had something to do with this before, and resorted to trying to manually edit the file which is probably not recommended and didn't work anyway. Today, on an entirely unrelated quest, i stumbled across this github repository which holds an up-to-date list of controller mappings. It's ten times longer than the one in fez! I downloaded the text file, replaced the one…
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