DualShock wireless emulator for windows
Many new games support the DualShock 4 controller as an input method. However, in order for it to work correctly it needs to be plugged in with a cable. It will not be recognized when connected with Bluetooth.
This program allows you to connect a DualShock 4 with Bluetooth and it will emulate a USB device with the same vendor id as a legit controller. This will allow you to play without being plugged in!
There are other tools that do similar things (like DS4Windows), but I think it's bloated and it maps your controller to an Xbox control scheme. Because of that, games show you UI with Xbox controls and I think that's pretty annoying.
- Download the vigem driver from https://github.com/ViGEm/ViGEmBus/releases
- Setup rust on your machine and simply run this:
cargo build --releaseCurrently, in order for it to work you need the vigem driver and I don't like depending on other people's work. I will make a driver specifically for this project, or find a way to emulate it in a different way. Maybe even make it cross-platform :)
Also, the project depends on gilrs-core for the base bluetooth controller interaction. Gilrs doesn't recognise events with multiple d-pad buttons pressed, so you can't press UP and LEFT in the same time. Gilrs also doesn't register events for pressing the touchbar and ps button, so I will look into an alternative or make my own :/