FF8 Controller Mod Updated!

[MCINDUS]

Check out my forum post at the qhimm forums for the newest version of the controller mod (v2.0)!

http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=15905.0

I highly recommend using shunsq's mod in conjunction with mine!

Buttons Available: Xbox, PSX, PS3/PS4, DS4, SPC, Steam Controller PSX, SNES, HID Mapper (XPadder, Pinnacle, etc.), and more!

[Talhee]

Yo I installed your mod yesterday and im having some trouble getting it to work, I have it installed and running but for some reason the buttons dont matchup to my controller

From using the default settings from the FF8 Launcher it ends up looking somewhat like this
When I go to config in game and check the customize control settings to see if it works. Im using the PS3/PS4 Layout.

Select: Button 1 (X) [Talk / Confirm Circle in Game]
Cancel: Button 4 (Triangle) [Walk / Cancel Square in Game]
Menu: Button 2 (Circle) [Talk Triangle In Game]
CardGame: Button 3 (Square) [Menu X In Game]

It looks fantastic but I dont know why this is happening ive been looking everywhere and cant find anyone else having an issue like this. Ive Tried swapping the control in the launcher around but the icons seem to move with the buttons. Any idea whats going on?

Im using a Logitech F310 Gamepad but I also tried my PS4 Controller and the same issues were happening.

[MCINDUS]

Hey! I've been having some interesting feedback on this mod thus far, and need a lot of testing/testers for feedback so that I can get these button layouts correct. I personally only have an Xbox360 controller, so I have to depend on feedback like yours to fix these problems for other users!

So - first question, are you using the selections from the MAIN folder, the Shunsq folder, or the HID folder?

Next question, have you tried any of the other layouts in the same folder? Will the PS_PS2 or the PS4_DS4 layout in the MAIN folder work for you? If using the Shunsq mod, try the PS_PS2 settings. Also, any screenshots would be awesome :) Thank you btw for using default. If none of those configs work, don't worry - i'll get one going for you, especially since the Logitech F310 is really popular.

[Talhee]

I think im using the HID folder, havent tried out the other ones since I thought at first it was a problem with the game itself. When I can i'll test some things out and take some screen shots and get back to you when I can.

[MCINDUS]

You're awesome! Thank you :)

[Talhee]

Something interesting has cropped up, I attempted to switch to the HID Xbox controls to see if there would be a difference with those only to find out that the B1 B2 B3, etc were back in controls, yet when I hit a key on my keyboard it shows up as the PS3/4 Icons again as if it were the controller.

https://imgur.com/a/TZFM57j

Im going to try the other ones to see how they fare, but this seemed odd.

Edit: Upon closer inspectiton there we ALT's of the PS3/4 controls left inside the folders after removing them and putting in the XBox icons from the Main folder in they are synced up and work properly.

Edit 2:The PS3/PS4 SPC Generic work fine, but the PS/PS2 do not. I noticed the order of the buttons were changed with this one in the png. I assume this is what was casuing the problem in the first place although I cant be sure. I hope this helps others in the future who also have this problem.

[HellRzR]

Hey there first off I would like to thank you for your hard work on creating this controller mod because it is such a nice thing to have while playing FF8. I download the mod and used the "HID PS3/PS4 SPC Generic" and it works great, the only thing is the "X" and "O" buttons are reversed. When i push "X" on my PS controller in the button config screen it would show "O" and vise versa. If you could please fix this issue that would be great as I would love to play this wonderful game again.

[MCINDUS]

@Triforce - Try using one of the other files in the HID folder, such as the generic PSX/PS2 configuration. Let me know if this helps!

[HellRzR]

@ echoing - Ok i just tried the "HID PSX-PS2" and in that one the "triangle" and "Circle" buttons are reversed with each other and the "L1" and "R1" buttons are reversed with each other as well. Thanks for the quick reply and sorry to have you look through the coding and edit it as I'm sure it's not easy.

[thefunge]

Hello, thank you so much for your hard work on this mod. I think I'm almost there but I have run into an issue. Instead of mapping the green text to controller icons, it instead maps all green text to the cursor. I have tested it with the gunblade cursor in seeDReborn 4 and normal cursor in earlier versions. Would you have any advice for me?

Again, thank you so much.

EDIT: I've determined that this issue occurs when I place the FF8_Buttons_EN.txt file into RaW/GLOBAL/Hext folder. I tried a different langauge (Fr) and I still got green text, but of a different font I believe. Moving the FF8_Buttons{config}.txt file does not change.
I'm starting to see that others have had this issue, but a fix was never posted on the forum.
Have we developed a fix?

[MCINDUS]

@thefunge -- this is due to your controller still being identified as a keymapping input. are you using a keymapper interface or are you just plugging in your controller directly? If you use a mapper program, you don't want/need shunsq's controller mod, and simply to use one of my HID interface folders within the mod. let me know if that helps!

[thefunge]

@echoing.silently, thank you for responding. I am just plugging in a PS4 controller through USB to my computer.