HidGuardian
Windows kernel-mode driver for controlling access to various input devices. (by ViGEm)
XJoy
Use Nintendo Switch JoyCons as a virtual Xbox 360 controller in Windows (by DuroSoft)
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| 142 | 381 | |
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| 1.2 | 0.0 | |
| over 3 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
HidGuardian
Posts with mentions or reviews of HidGuardian.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-11.
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can you Figure out this driver issue? details are in the pinned comment
HidGuardian lives here: https://github.com/ViGEm/HidGuardian Its whole purpose is to block controllers from working. Figure out how she installed it and get rid of it.
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Could someone please suggest a cheap controller for PC? I've been using this for a while now but it's mapping is horrible and doesn't work in game half the time. I used Joystokey but even then it's not that great. Please help a brother out 🙏
And also install HidGuardian
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Looking For USB Solution (Too Many USB Devices)
Devreorder as already linked works well, you can also use something like HidGuardian ( https://github.com/ViGEm/HidGuardian ) normally used with Joystrick Gremlin or UCR to prevent programs from seeing certain devices at all, which can be handy in various circumstances.
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Use emulated controller while hiding the original
Hid Guardian (Last commit 2020-12-17)is discontinued, mentions a newer HidHide so if you're using HID Guardian, you might want to make the switch.
- HidGuardian in irffb?
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Hide Controller Problem
If you install HIDGuardian, hide controller will *always* work, but you have to whitelist apps that you want to detect the controller individually as you launch them. It's not ideal, but it's the best solution I've found.
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MWO Joystick question
So a problem may arise after you use VJOY/Gremlin to create a new combined virtual device. This problem is that some games won't show all devices as they stop enumerating after one or two. You will then need to use HIDGuardian https://github.com/ViGEm/HidGuardian to hide the individual devices so that only the newly created combined virtual device is shown. There are a large amount of youtube videos on both VJOY and Gremlin as they are used most often.
XJoy
Posts with mentions or reviews of XJoy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-06.
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Use JoyCons without third-party software
Have you tried to use XJoy
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Is there a way to use Joy-Cons as a combined controller?
I tried with mine, but there's a very noticeable lag if you connect both joycons at the same time, this lag however is not present on this app called xjoy https://github.com/sam0x17/XJoy/releases/tag/v0.1.8, but only on version 0.1.8 and lower, the newest version available also has the same problem as the betterjoy app
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Joy Cons as Xbox controllers on macOS?
It is quite cumbersome however to put the mappings in for each game, and I was wondering if anyone has made or come across something like XJoy, which makes Windows think a Joy Con is an Xbox controller. Since macOS has xbox controller (and DualShock 4/DualSense) support, I thought it perhaps could be possible.
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Best Switch Controller
You can rig the JoyCons to work on the PC, but it's a PITA because they get recognized by windows as separate controllers. So you have to install a special driver to make them work together. I had a lot of trouble configuring the top Google result that everyone recommends because it relies on a second project that is very finicky in my experience. I thought I was out of luck until I found this: https://github.com/sam0x17/XJoy
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Weekend mode with my WFH setup.
It needs an extra tweak. Here: https://github.com/sam0x17/XJoy This will make your joy-con to be an Xbox controller. It has a small bug, though.
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/r/NintendoSwitch's Daily Question Thread (12/31/2020)
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What are some alternatives?
When comparing HidGuardian and XJoy you can also consider the following projects:
HidHide - Gaming Input Peripherals Device Firewall for Windows.
JoyCon-Driver - A vJoy feeder for the Nintendo Switch JoyCons and Pro Controller
NFSU-XtendedInput - NFS Underground & Underground 2 - XInput Plugin
JoyMapperSilicon - Nintendo Joy-Con / Pro Controller Mapper for Apple silicon
UCR - Universal Control Remapper [Alpha]
qmk_firmware - Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
x360ce - Primary repository for the x360ce library, front-end and tools.
Reverse-Engineering-Tutorial - A FREE comprehensive reverse engineering tutorial covering x86, x64, 32-bit ARM & 64-bit ARM architectures.
devreorder - A utility for reordering and hiding DirectInput controllers
VDX - XInput/x360ce to ViGEm sample application
Shibari - Gaming input peripherals prototyping platform for Windows
Xb2XInput - XB2X: User-mode Windows driver for Xbox OG controllers, supporting both XInput and DirectInput.