JoyShockMapper VS DS4Windows

Here's jsm if you were serious Joyshockmapper

The paper you linked is more of a conceptual explanation for design and implementation of systems into games. To learn how to use JSM itself there is a guide for its functions on its GitHub page. The games database may also provide you with some ready made scripts for you to use and edit to your liking.

There DS4Windows, Steam Input & JoyShockMapper. The easiest way to setup gyro would be DS4Windows, JoyShockMapper would be a involved(relatively) but offers way more customization. You can grab a community config for gyro from steam if you choose steam input.

There's also this https://github.com/Electronicks/JoyShockMapper but i'm not sure if it would work with stadia controllers it might work with the dual shock ones

Non-trackball gaming solution: Use gyro on PS4/5 controller with JoyShockMapper. If flickstick doesn't float your boat, maybe a Steam Controller if you can find one for a reasonable price, with trackball emulation enabled it's basically a thumb ball, and when your thumb gets sore start using gyro.

Is it possible to use gyro aiming + flick stick with any xCloud games, or are we forced to use the analog sticks? I have a PS4 controller (i.e. it has a gyro) and tried using JoyShockMapper, but this doesn't seem to work. It modifies my mouse pointer but not my in-game aiming. Has anyone had success with this or an alternative gyro aiming software package when playing on xCloud? Thanks.

Using the software JoyShockMapper's "motion stick" and the simple config below, I bound pitch and roll to WASD. I was able to just use it exactly like I use the 3DRudder. This software can create a virtual controller, so it is also possible to output analog joystick motion. You can map yaw to something as well, although gyro controllers generally lack a magnetometer and yaw might drift easily.

I have also heard really good things about JoyShockMapper, which is both free and open source.

And there was also a fork available in the last year while the original dev was on a hiatus.

Personally I use CircumSpector's DS4Windows. It has restored rumble and lightbar passthru on my end. The lightbar passthru is kinda buggy but it kinda works.

Thankfully, Jibb already redirects the newer fork if you look at the Release page or literally the first Paragraph of README.md. So unlike DS4Windows (which took 6-7+ years to tell folks to move over to Ryochan4 fork...which said fork been discontinued and someone else took over. Welcome to FOSS. 😋), it should be easy enough to head over to Electronicks fork.

Final note: DS4Windows hasn't been updated since August 2021. Another group forked it and they're rewriting a lot of it. There is no release yet and no release date planned.

A couple of FOSS enthusiasts and myself have taken over the decade old game controller remapping tool DS4Windows (https://github.com/CircumSpector/DS4Windows) with the goal to rewrite major parts using latest dotnet patterns and technologies. There's still months worth of work left but despite being an ambitious task, it's quite doable and fun figuring out your way around someone else's massive code base. Join us if you like!

The DS4Windows project is not dead. There is a new team working on it called CircumSpector, but it may take a while for a update to be released since they are focusing on "modernizing" the code so it's easier to maintain it in the future. There are lots of changes going on under the hood, but "user visible" changes for now.

This is not exactly true. Check CircumSpector's DS4Windows.