Gamepads

Outer Wilds is currently designed for the XBox360 gamepad, and none other.
One bypass is to patch the game to address this.

This ruby script allows you to use your own gamepad. Here is how to proceed to have it work with your gamepad.

First,install ruby
Then, download the script
Put the script next to OuterWilds_7-30-13_Data
Run the script a first time with ruby ( for example via the command "ruby owcontroll.rb"). This will create a default mapping configuration (in mapping.rb), which describes which key name in the game corresponds to which key ID
You then need to find the ID for each button or axis. If you are using linux, you can use the joystick library
Once your configuration is done, you can launch the script a second time. This will copy OuterWilds_7-30-13_Data/mainData to OuterWilds_7-30-13_Data/mainData.orig and modify your key mapping in mainData
launch OuterWilds_7-30-13 and check if your mapping works.
When you have a working configuration, please consider posting it here.

Here is a list of mapping.rb that have been used, for well defined controller:

This is not perfect: the right and left trigger use the four-way digital cross top and bottom, the light (DPadUp) is enabled via the cross right

{
X => 0,

A => 1,

DPadUp => 4,

RightStickClick => 11,

LookX => 2,

LookY => 3,

Start => 9,

RightTrigger => 8,

LeftTrigger => 5,
}

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