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What software tools do you use that are gaming related?
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AntiMicroX for converting gamepad inputs to keyboard inputs. I pretty much only use it for Super Smash Flash 2.
I made extensive use of reWASD for a few games in the past. I'll miss that program occasionally haha. AntiMicroX is probably the best sort of alternative yeah?
Hard to say, i've never used reWASD. There's another program called Input Remapper that i haven't used for games but which is supposed to be like AntiMicroX but for keyboard, mouse, and gamepad inputs and outputs going both ways. So i can make my keyboard an Xbox controller, my Wii U controller a keyboard, my mouse a pair of DK Bongos probably, and so on. But i don't know how to make it work without sudo access (apparently some programs need that and some don't to mess with inputs) so i don't like using it.
Steam Input can do all of that plus a nearly infinite amount of other things, and it's built right into Steam. Even if it's a non Steam game, you can still launch it through Steam and use Proton and Steam Input.
Some people don't like Steam running in the background. My last computer was so weak it couldn't run light weight games through Steam because of the extra resource usage.