Weirdest control problems I've ever had... ever...

[Junogray]

To start off, I have heard all manner of complaints about the game already, I have been able to get past all of the other problems from the game not finding steam, to the window mode to the wonky control set up for the analog, and pressing on...
I digress, the game is quite literally unplayable as I have found for both my keyboard set up and the controller through whatever I have tried, 2 simple buttons do not work no matter how I set them up... the gun and sword... wth... I had tried setting up the controls through key config the game came with, in game, and joy to key... and the game responds to all the input from my controller fine, even when setting the melee and gun buttons in the config menu... but in game I have yet to hurt anything after playing with it for an hour or so...
...please help...

[ookami38]

I'm unfortunately having the same issue, and no idea how to fix it. Whether it's with keyboard or controller, i simply cannot attack. The buttons work elsewhere, and i can use, say, style arts to attack but.. yeah. Any solutions would be much appreciated.

[Raiyuki]

Oddly enough, Programs like Key to joy or xpadder doesn't seem to work, I've tried various programs, DMC3 is actually farily old, and a lot of the newer pads don't worth with it well. There are however, some gamepad that still have both Direct Input(old) and Xinput(new) control functions, aannnnddd DMC requires a Direct input controller unfortunately...

There Maybe Direct input emulators out there if you look

[Raiyuki]

This maybe a Xinput to Direct input emulator, I have yet to try it out, but I will, but here it is if you want to check it out
http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/

[ookami38]

I appreciate the reply, however I don't see that being the issue. Granted, I could be completely wrong, but if it was an issue with Direct Input or Xinput, wouldn't a keyboard function properly? Additionally, wouldn't the issue affect all functions and not just attacks? Feel free to correct me if I've gotten something horribly wrong.

[ookami38]

Ok, I've done some more testing this morning, and figured out a couple of things.

First, I tried swapping the controls for Jump (A) and Melee Attack (Y). This enabled me to attack in-game, but not jump. I then tried remapping the jump key on my keyboard to a different key (I used the = key) in an effort to use Xpadder or joy2key to emulate that key on my gamepad, but pressing that key results in Dante attacking.

I tried both of these both with and without x360ce, getting the same results each time. I'd write the issue off as the buttons on my controller just not working, but the input is being recognized both by windows and by the game itself. I am thoroughly stumped with this one.

EDIT: Looking more closely at x360ce, it seems like it works the other way around, translating Direct Input to Xinput.

[Raiyuki]

When I used Programs like "Key to Joy" or "Xpadder" I had issues where if I hit jump Dante would try to shoot at the same time, like the program confused 2-3 buttons at the same time. I'll suggest don't go to the forums for assistance on these problems, for a heads up, you'll get a bunch of immature children who won't help you with any tech support what-so-ever, and just harass you with "its a bad port" and "why the Hell did you waste money on this game"

[Crimson_Nightmare]

Maybe this will help you guys out or point you in the right direction,but I did this to get my ps3 controller with motionjoy. I found this on a site( thank you to the original poster) while spending 2-3 hours to get the controls to work and it worked perfectlly. In addtion, once you get the kinks out this game is great and looks way better on pc.


"Yea, this game a pain to configure a gamepad with. I did it the other day and it involved a lot of trial and error. I looked a your screen shots and will tell you where you need to make changes. 1st you need to make a custom config with the profile editor then:

L1=button7, R1=button8, L2=button5, R2=button6, L3=button11, R3=button10, start=button12, LstickUP=Rz-, LstickRight=Ry+, LstickDown=Rz+, LstickLeft=Ry-, RstickRight=Dial+ and finally RstickLeft=Dial-

I saved my profile as DMC3 then hit the enable button. And that was just to map the buttons to the gamepad so that they match the those to DMC3 gamepad configuration program. To make the controls as they are in the PS2 you'll have to go to the "in game" gamepad config screen and set them up like this:

change gun= 5 change devil arms= 6
devil trigger= 7 lock-on= 8
item screen= d-pad up melee attack= 1
map screen= d-pad down shoot= 4
equip screen= d-pad right style action= 2
file screen= d-pad left jump= 3
change target= 11 default camera= 10
taunt= 9

I hope this helps you out."

[Shi_Wei_Li]

THAAANK YOU Crimson_Nightmare, I was trying to configure MotionJoy last night--I gave up on the analogue sticks after my 3rd attempt. It should really not be that hard lol. Now if someone can help me with the hex edit resolution trick I'd be set...

[Crimson_Nightmare]

You're welcome and you are right it really shouldnt have been XD, but regarding the resolution fix(not sure if this is what you are talking about) I just went into the DMC3SE.ini and changed the window state to fit my resolution. It took some trial and error, but it did after sometime save my settings. In addition, I messed with Nvida control panel and turned on vsync.

[x02DannyBoy]

gotten this problem as well after playing through 6 missions, game refuses to allow me to attack or shoot at all no matter what key on the keyboard or xbox controller it's set to :( only thing that i've noticed is that (because i have artemis equipped) its doing a charge shot with the gun though i cant fire it....