Controls are bothersome

[DeadTaco]

I got this for my daughter, and she's extremely frustrated since it requires you to play with a keyboard, while the second player plays with an Xbox controller. The Rapunzel character is stuck with keyboard-only control. This is very bizarre. Why would they allow player 2 to use an xbox controller, but not player 1? There's no option anywhere for it.

BLARGH!!!!

[trustin]

I have the exact same problem. Mind-boggling.

[trustin]

I tried to use AntiMicro to work around this problem. It seems to work although it is a little bit tricky.

Once you are done with mapping, save the profile and launch the game. When two controllers are connected, the first controller will control Flynn Rider, and the second controller will do pretty much nothing. (It might do something as the game progresses, but you know, we are not even close there.)

Now, in AntiMicro, load the profile you saved into the second controller, and now you can control Rapunzel with the second controller. For the first controller, you should remove all mappings, so you can control Flynn Rider with it. Also, make sure to load the profile into the right controller. Otherwise, one controller will control both Rapunzel and Flynn Rider.

One annoying thing is that the game will disconnect the controller automatically when there's no activity for 30 seconds. You'll have to keep your controller busy, or otherwise one controller will control both characters again. *sigh*

Besides this super annoying controller problem, I also find some lighting issues which need a fix, although I doubt these guys will ever update this game. Maybe they just know dads will do whatever they can do for their daughters.

[unholystakes]

My jaw is on the floor here...how anyone could have thought this was so great a control scheme, they would not only make it the default, they would make it impossible to change. Did it not occur to them that anyone with ONE gamepad who bought a CO-OP game would probably have TWO of them? I don't have AntiMicro but tried mapping controls in Xpadder. But it just applies those inputs to both characters. Tedious beyond belief. The worst part is I can't even give the controller to my kid and suffer the k/b and mouse controls myself, since of course she wants to be Rapunzel instead of Flynn...

[Jani]

Same problem this control method very annoying.

[Stabbur]

Agreed, I wish they could fix it. Going to try Antimicro in the meantime.

[ramsayaaron]

I;ve just hit the same problem with this game, only player two, who must ALWAYS be Flynn, can use the controller. This was extremely annoying as I also have the Wii version and it works differently - in one player you swap between both, but in two player if you press swap at the same time you still can - for those REALLY hard small platforms you have to jump to.

Anyway, this is just a quick Disney cash in, a waste of money - I'd get the Wii version, other than resolution I swaer it looks exactly the same!

[FandangoChristmas]

This really needs to be fixed. game is unplayable in this state without proper controller support. We will wait until this is patched, and just play this on our wii instead.

[Aquaman1942]

If you've got Padstarr, I've uploaded a working profile for two Xbox 360 controllers here: http://padstarr.com/forum/showthread.php?31682-Disney-s-Tangled

That profile allows player 1 (Rapunzel) to use the 2nd controller and player 2 (Flynn) continues using the first controller.

I tried making a profile for Pinnacle Game Profiler, but the 1st controller just overrides all communications and you end up moving both characters even if both controllers are active.

[Solnyshok3]

simpler solution that worked for me, is to use padstar or equivalent software define 1st controller buttons as keyboard/mouse codes but before starting the game, disconnect the controller from USB. after game loaded, connect controller back, it will work for 1st player (Rapunzel) as expected

[TenjiTenno]

Реально это не адеватно. Почему нет возможности выбрать клавиатура или геймпад? Зачем там вкладка "Other", если она НЕ работает?? Вам точно нужно исправить это. Дочери 4 года, на клавиатуре ей не удобно играть.