Hi to everybody.
In order to exercise dinput (which is overly complex) I have implemented xinput using dinput. Xinput is as easy as winmm joystick support, I guess MS wanted to go back to the basics.
I know that this is not really useful specially when HID kicks in but as I said it was an exercise and now I can play Broforce properly with the Xbox controller and force feedback.
If you know a game that is xinput only and it does not work with this patch tests are appreciated (+xinput,+dinput). Most of the code can still be reused for HID IMO, just change the dinput functions.
If you want force feedback remember to disable the (js) joystick in the control panel. Also if you have other controller brands it must have at least 6 axis, 11 buttons and 1 POV to work, but the mapping has to be redone. If it has less buttons you can relax the checks in dinput_is_good.
Last but not least I know I should have used dinput to map the axes values for me but I was tired of reading dinput docs and it was easy enough to convert manually.
Best wishes, Bruno