PadForge

• Driving games send PadForge their speed, RPM, gear, pedals and steering: Forza, F1, the Codemasters rally games, EA SPORTS WRC, BeamNG.drive, Live for Speed, Project CARS 2, Automobilista 2 and the truck simulators over the network, and Assetto Corsa and Assetto Corsa Competizione through shared memory. Turn on Listen for Game Telemetry on the Dashboard, and the values appear as a Game Telemetry row on the Devices page, ready to map like any controller’s inputs, start macros, or play adaptive trigger effects on a DualSense. Custom Formats describes a game PadForge does not know, field by field, and Forward to Port passes every packet on to a program such as SimHub.
• Game mods made for DSX now send to PadForge, with no DSX installed. These fan mods give the Grand Theft Auto games, Red Dead Redemption 2, Skyrim, Fallout 4 and others adaptive triggers. Turn on Accept DSX Game Mods, and their trigger effects, lightbar, player lights and mute light play on the PlayStation controllers on your virtual controllers.
• A Novint Falcon runs through Force Dimension’s SDK. Its handle is a stick and its grip’s four buttons are buttons, and a game’s rumble and force feedback push back on the handle, with a self-centering Joystick feel or an Aim feel that moves like a mouse. No Falcon has run against PadForge yet.
• The screens on Logitech’s GamePanel devices, among them the G15, G19, G510 and G13, on the Mad Catz S.T.R.I.K.E. 7 and on a phone running Logitech Arx Control show the profile, a clock, play time, a stopwatch, a picture or a PlayStation controller’s lightbar color. The keys beside each screen map as buttons. None of these screens has run against PadForge yet.
• A game that plays a DualSense’s haptics as audio now rumbles every rumble pad on that virtual controller, and Bass Shakers follow the haptics too (#522).
• A Bluetooth DualShock 4 plays sound through its headphone jack, and its headset microphone works (#528). A second-model DualShock 4 (CUH-ZCT2) on a cable now plays PadForge’s sound through its headphone jack. On a cable or on Sony’s USB wireless adapter, a DualShock 4 takes the slot’s macro sounds only while headphones are plugged in. Steering Angle Rumble can play on one motor (#510), and axis macros set a virtual DualShock 3’s button pressure (#530).
• HIDMaestro 2.1.0 keeps virtual Xbox 360 controllers working through sleep, delivers every frame once and in order, and holds up when every processor is busy. In HIDMaestro’s own test under that load, a virtual DualShock 4’s slowest frame took 1.4 ms instead of 360.
• Fixes. Fanatec wheel commands go out on report 0x01, the report Fanatec bases read. They went out on report 0x00, so a CSL DD felt no force feedback, and no Fanatec base has run the fix yet. PadForge no longer rewrites PadForge.xml every 30 seconds while nothing changes. The web controller starts once another program frees its port, and a wheel’s RPM shift lights follow F1 22 and F1 25. A DualShock 4 on Sony’s USB wireless adapter plays in stereo, where it played a mono mix in the right ear only, and Master Volume sets the level of a DualShock 4’s and a Wii Remote’s macro sounds.
• Bundled: HIDMaestro 2.1.0 with 337 device profiles, and BthPS3 3.2.1.

• HIDMaestro 2.0, the driver behind PadForge’s virtual controllers, is rebuilt around data. Each of its 337 device profiles now carries everything specific to its device, from the layout of its input to a PlayStation pad’s calibration replies and a Switch Pro’s handshake, and the driver holds no code written for any single device. A new controller of a known kind needs only a new file. It is faster too. HIDMaestro timed 2.0 against its last 1.x release: a virtual DualShock 4 appears in 217 ms instead of 467, an Xbox 360 controller in 358 ms instead of 674, and a DualSense’s input reaches the game in 48 microseconds instead of 66. A PlayStation controller that Steam holds open no longer stays broken until a reboot after PadForge removes it.
• PadForge now works with screen readers, so blind and low-vision players can use it. The screen reader speaks a name for every control the Tab key reaches, in PadForge’s language, says which tile is picked and whether a switch is on, and reads status messages as they happen while PadForge is in front, so nothing talks over a game. Tiles, chips, curve points and dialogs all work from the keyboard. Tested with NVDA. Mouse users see no change.
• The interface comes in 109 languages, up from 10. Of those, 42 are complete, British English among them, and the rest show English wherever a string is missing. Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Central Kurdish lay the interface out right to left, and Chinese, Japanese and Korean draw in their own fonts. Until you pick a language, PadForge uses your Windows display language.
• Mice and keyboards now light up with the game, and haptic mice rumble with it. Assign one to a virtual controller, turn on Control This Device’s Lighting, and it takes that controller’s lighting in any mode a DualSense lightbar has. On a PlayStation controller it glows the color the game picks. The haptic mice are the Logitech MX Master 4, the SteelSeries Rival 500, 700 and 710, and Logitech’s iFeel mice once they run on PadForge’s driver. PadForge lights Logitech, Razer, SteelSeries and Windows Dynamic Lighting devices itself while their own app is closed, and through G HUB, Logitech Gaming Software, Synapse or GG while it runs. Headsets, mousepads and Razer Sensa HD gear follow through their vendor rows on the Devices page, which replace the Dashboard’s Lightbar Mirrors and Sensa switches. A switch that was on carries over.
• A Keyboard + Mouse slot can now type and point through a virtual keyboard and mouse: pick one of 51 keyboard and 52 mouse models, and programs see that model. Windows input still works as before. The preview draws the keyboard you picked, key for key, with the mouse’s buttons, wheel and tilt, and a click on any of them maps it.
• Settings can now remove HIDMaestro, and the PlayStation Bluetooth drivers, from the PC. Each removal shows what it takes and what it keeps before it starts.
• MIDI works without Windows MIDI Services, whose installers Microsoft removed on October 1. On Windows 11 24H2 and later, Settings installs PadForge’s own build of that runtime. Everywhere else, each MIDI slot sends to a MIDI port you pick on its page. Once Windows has its built-in MIDI API, PadForge uses that.
• The PS VR Aim Controller maps as a gamepad, and the NYXI Hyperion 3 and other Joy-Con 2 clones that speak the console protocol connect over Bluetooth. PadForge now knows 1,110 devices by USB identity. A wheel’s rotation slider stops at that wheel’s own limits, and clearing Set Rotation Range leaves the range to the wheel’s own software (#512).
• Fixes. A number box saves every change, arrow clicks included (#511). Hide from Games hides a vJoy joystick (#515). A Wii Remote that reconnects with its IR camera off gets the camera back, so aiming works again (#484). A USB controller PadForge hides is taken away from a game or launcher that opened it first. A Switch 2 Pro slot presses the control each row names, and Paste and Copy From carry the mappings between slots of different layouts.
• Bundled: HIDMaestro 2.0.3 with 337 device profiles, and BthPS3 3.2.1.

• Analog keyboards. Turn on Read Analog Keyboards in Settings and a Hall effect or analog keyboard reports how far each key is pressed, as its own row on the Devices page: more than 370 models from 101 brands, Wooting, Razer, Keychron and NuPhy among them. A key maps to a button, a trigger or a stick axis, and two macros on one key, each with its own depth, make a soft press and a full press. Your typing is untouched. A Set Chroma Color macro action paints every Razer Chroma device while it runs.
• Rapid Trigger and Toggle. Two new Primary Modes on a mapping row. Rapid Trigger releases and presses again on short moves of any input with depth: analog keys, triggers, sticks, MIDI controls. Toggle latches: one press holds the output, the next lets go.
• Bliss-Box adapters. Read Bliss-Box Adapters names each port for the retro controller plugged in and maps it the way SDL maps that console’s pad, or the way RetroArch’s Bliss-Box files do where SDL has no mapping. It reads a DualShock 2’s pressure-sensitive buttons, drives rumble, shows pictures on a Dreamcast pad’s VMU, and backs up and restores an N64 Controller Pak.
• Motion from a stick or buttons. Motion Pitch, Yaw and Roll rows give a PlayStation, Nintendo or Valve virtual controller motion from any input. Speed turns the controller while the stick is held. Angle leans it and levels it when you let go.
• A Wii Remote is a light gun. Calibrate it to your screen from its Light Gun section on the Devices page, four targets and a press of B each, and the crosshair lands where the remote points. The aim corrects for twist. A Namco GunCon 2 calibrates the same way.
• DualShock 3. Its gyro measures yaw only, so Pitch and Roll Simulation fills pitch and roll from the accelerometer. The pad gets its own 3D model and 2D art, and the DualShock 3 (SIXAXIS): Full preset presents it the way PCSX2 and RPCS3 read it, pressure on ten buttons included. An original Xbox controller with one of the 63 listed IDs fills its pressure rows on its own.
• Controllers Windows leaves unusable. Bluetooth LE pads, the iCade, serial I-Force wheels with their force feedback, DJI RC remotes over the network, clone Xbox 360 receivers, the Xbox 360 chatpad and uDraw, the Ring-Con, the PS Move Sharp Shooter and Racing Wheel, Namco USIO boards and more. PadForge now knows 1,108 devices by USB identity, up from 758, 289 of them pads the community SDL_GameControllerDB maps.
• The web controller on plain HTTP, and menus on the phone. Also Serve Plain HTTP adds a second address behind a ten-character access code, for browsers that refuse a self-signed certificate and for tunnels. Web Menus shows a slot’s Touch Grid menus on the phone as pages of tiles, and menu cells and layers take emoji and pictures as icons.
• Fixes. A new profile’s macros survive a restart (#487). A mapped Numpad Enter is consumed (#486). Player and World gyro space turn the same way as Local. The abstract Gamepad names appear only under (Any Device).
• Bundled: HIDMaestro 1.10.1 with 232 device profiles, and BthPS3 3.2.1, which carries the fix for the Windows stop error a DualShock 3 could cause when it disconnected over Bluetooth. PadForge updates an older BthPS3 at launch.

• PadForge updates itself. Settings has a new Updates card. It checks GitHub 20 seconds after launch and every 12 hours, downloads the build for your processor, checks it against the SHA-256 checksum GitHub publishes, and installs it when you click Install and Restart, or at the next launch with Install Updates Automatically on. Include Pre-Releases adds the latest dev build. Diagnostics now shows the build beside the version. 4.5.2 and older have no updater, so reaching 4.5.3 takes this one manual download.
• Motion stays on after an early save or a copy. A PlayStation slot saved before its DualSense arrived, or a slot filled by Copy and Paste or Copy From from a slot whose pad it lacks, came up with Motion Gyro and Motion Accelerometer empty. An empty motion row switches motion off, so the virtual DS4 had no gyro. Both paths now leave those rows for the auto-map to fill. A slot made before this fix keeps its empty rows: map them by hand, or delete the slot and add it again.
• The 2D annotation labels draw when you turn them on. They used to appear only after the window was resized.

• Windows on ARM gains HidHide, Vosk voice recognition and Xbox Elite paddles. They work there as they do on x64. 4.5.1 said HidHide had no ARM64 driver. It has one.
• Elite paddles over USB and the Xbox Wireless Adapter stay on across Windows updates. That route reads an undocumented Windows format, so the input library checks the Windows files behind it before switching it on. The check was five exact file hashes, which a Windows update broke. It now accepts a family of versions: Windows 11 24H2 or 25H2 at build 26100.8973 or 26200.8973 (July 28, 2026) or later, with version 3 of the GameInput redistributable, or with none. On Windows 10 and older Windows 11 that route stays off, and paddles are read over Bluetooth only.
• A voice macro no longer crashes PadForge after a temp cleanup. A cleaner that removed the cached speech model’s files and left its folders made the speech engine hand back an empty model, and the first recognizer built on it took the app down. PadForge now checks the model and unpacks it again.

None of the ARM64 work has run on ARM64 hardware yet. Requirements lists what the ARM64 build still lacks.

• A VR headset, without a VR game. Enable OpenXR Headset Input on the Dashboard and the headset’s pose arrives on the Head Tracker device as the same six axes OpenTrack uses. A Quest on Link or Air Link has to go through SteamVR’s runtime, since Meta’s cannot run the background session PadForge needs. So far the input has run only against SteamVR’s runtime, with no headset attached. PadForge talks to the runtime directly instead of through the Khronos loader, so it can pick a runtime for itself without touching the machine’s default and no other program’s API layers enter its process. The session draws nothing, so no VR game has to be running.
• Your VR controllers become gamepads. Each hand is its own device row: six pose axes in the same order as the head’s, named Controller rather than Head, plus the thumbstick, trigger, grip, and four buttons. Oculus Touch, Valve Index, and the Khronos simple profile are all suggested and the runtime picks the match. Left and right are separate devices, and a controller that goes to sleep returns its axes to rest after a second.
• Per-axis head tracking ranges. Any one of the six axes can pin its own range while the rest follow the shared pair, for when neck rotation and leaning cover very different distances.
• Logitech G-keys, without burning a keycode. Tick Read Logitech G-Keys in Settings and the G-keys arrive through Logitech’s own SDK as their own device row: 29 keys in each of M1, M2 and M3, plus a Logitech mouse’s buttons 6 through 20. No programming a G-key to type some real key that then fires in every other program.
• A controller paired to your phone, through the browser. The Browser Gamepad page forwards a pad the phone or handheld can see over the Gamepad API, with rumble where the browser offers it. iPhone Safari offers none. Controls past a slot’s shape are dropped, and the page says how many.
• Pens and drawing tablets are input devices. A Windows pen reports its barrel buttons, its eraser, inversion and in-range as named buttons, and its contact rides the touchpad lane. There is no tilt or twist, and the row is excluded from (Any Device) sources, so bind it by name.
• Keyboard and mouse surfaces. A Preset chip, a preview that follows it, and a per-slot surface mode that persists.
• Menus gained a Layer picker, a stay-open mode, and per-cell icon size.
• The install is 30% smaller and starts faster. 412.3 MB down to 289.2 MB, and startup from 6.26 s to 5.58 s. Each controller atlas now ships in the format that suits it, opaque ones as JPEG, and 352 duplicate meshes were dropped for a shared geometry table. The transparent atlases and the speech model are stored uncompressed inside a Brotli stream instead of being deflated and then compressed again, and the meshes are Brotli-packed rather than deflated.
• Eight new Xbox Series skins: Sonic the Hedgehog, Razer, Captain America, Boba Fett, The Mandalorian, Stormtrooper, Darth Vader, and Star Wars: Squadrons.
• Always Show in System Tray is its own setting, so the tray icon no longer depends on Close to System Tray.
• A virtual pad reports a real battery level. Two off-by-one defects, one in the DualShock 4 packer and one in HIDMaestro’s XInput reply, had every virtual pad reading flat.
• A game’s DualSense trigger feedback reaches the pad. The virtual pad carries the physical DualSense’s trigger feedback bytes instead of zeroing them, so a game that reads them back sees the truth.
• Rumble on Padix PlayStation converters, written directly as the 9-byte motor report.
• Proportional steering-angle rumble on wheels.
• Signed BthPS3 2.12.0 is bundled, and an older install is upgraded in place.
• Elite paddles heal themselves across every transport and focus change.

• Valve hardware from an Extended slot. A Steam Deck Controller, a Steam Controller (Wired), a Steam Controller (2026), and Composite variants of the first two, each with Valve’s own vendor and product IDs. The Composite and 2026 profiles pack Valve’s native input frame with both trackpads and the rear buttons, and a one-to-one automap lands a real Valve pad’s controls straight across. The two Steam Controller bodies in the 3D preview are meshed from Valve’s published CAD.
• Handheld PCs give up their hidden buttons. Rear paddles, menu keys, wheels, and vendor hotkeys on the Legion Go, ROG Ally, GPD Win, OneXPlayer, AYANEO, AYN, Zotac Zone, and MSI Claw become named buttons by watching you press each one, through a typed key combination, a vendor HID report bit, or a vendor WMI event. No per-model table ships. The machine’s own gyroscope joins as a System Motion device.
• Head tracking from OpenTrack. OpenTrack’s UDP output, port 4242 by default, and the FreeTrack 2.0 shared memory both arrive as one Head Tracker device with six axes: yaw, pitch, roll, and the three translations. Turn it on in the Dashboard’s Head Tracking section.
• The desk lights up with the pad. Razer Chroma and Logitech LIGHTSYNC devices take the virtual pad’s lightbar color, and Razer Sensa HD hardware plays its rumble. Three Dashboard toggles, each one a profile can carry. Chroma and Sensa need Razer Synapse installed and LIGHTSYNC needs G HUB, since each runs on the vendor’s own engine.
• The Steam Controller 2026 plays a DualSense persona’s haptics as PCM. Wired or on the dongle, the persona’s authored haptic track streams to the pad’s own actuators instead of collapsing to a tone, with sound macros, the system-audio mirror, and swipe ticks riding the same stream. Over Bluetooth the pad stays on the tone lane.
• A macro can change the shift layer. A Switch Layer action jumps the slot to Base or to any layer you authored, and it holds until another switch, a Latch or Cycle activator, or a profile change. A shift activator can carry an Only While in Layer condition, checked when the input goes down and held for the whole press, so one button can mean something different on every layer.
• Menu cells fire macros, and the icons are yours. A radial or grid cell can run a macro instead of pressing a button. An icon package is one zip of images with a .pficons extension, added from the Menus tab and read straight from the file without unpacking.
• Launchers and scripts switch profiles. Turn on Allow External Control by Launchers and Scripts and PadForge serves a local named pipe that Playnite, LaunchBox, or a one-line script can activate a profile through. The profile is held until the script releases it or you switch one yourself.
• A profile can carry its own polling rate, 1000 Hz down to 62.5 Hz, overriding the Settings interval while that profile is active.
• Quick Charge drops the Bluetooth link when the pad plugs in. A controller that reports it is charging over USB has its radio link dropped, so it charges without powering the radio. Any USB power source counts, wall chargers included.
• The Wii Remote learns how it is held. A Grip card on the Gyro tab rotates the gyro, the accelerometer, gravity, and the D-pad into the game’s frame for Pointing, Sideways (Face Up), Wii Wheel (Face Toward You), or Upright.
• Motion Shake is a mapping source, and on a Wii Remote the aux entry names itself Nunchuk Shake.
• Assignment prompts. When a device connects while a virtual controller’s page is open, PadForge offers to assign it there, with two opt-outs in Settings. Keyboards, mice, touchpads, and media keys are never offered.
• Hide from Games reaches an XInput interface buried inside a composite pad, the shape a handheld’s built-in controller and a pad on an Xbox 360 wireless receiver both have. A device row you deliberately left visible keeps its own nodes.
• The Dashboard and Settings pages run in the order they mean, and the driver status strip left the Dashboard for Settings, where the drivers are installed.
• Fixes: pressure-scaled turbo takes its direction from the trigger instead of reading a stick’s lower half backward, a dual-connected Sony pad drops its stale radio link when the wired audio sink builds, switching an Extended slot’s profile carries the bindings across and maps the new ones, phantom adaptive triggers no longer appear on Virtual Xbox 360 slots, and unassigning a device drops its per-slot config instead of leaving it behind.

• A processing chain for the DualSense headset jack. Under Output Path on the Audio tab, three stages run on everything the slot plays before the pad encodes it. Crossfeed mixes a little of each channel into the other the way a room does, with bs2b’s six classic presets, Jan Meier, the bs2b default, and a Custom level with its own cutoff and feed sliders. A graphic parametric EQ: a log-frequency curve with one draggable handle per band, drag for frequency and gain, wheel for width, with typed rows underneath and six band types. A limiter, on by default, so a boosted band never clips the pad’s encoder.
• AutoEq import. Download the Custom Parametric Eq for your headphones from autoeq.app and click Import from File. The bands, the preamp, and the enable all land, and a status line says what it did. The clipboard import stays for profiles that arrive as text.
• Follow Headphone Jack works without a virtual DualSense. The jack was only ever read by the virtual-pad lane, so with none on the slot it never switched and Mirror System Audio played into a muted path. PadForge reads the jack from the pad itself now, USB or Bluetooth.
• Slot Copy and Paste carry everything. The Bass Shakers, SOCD, and Keep Awake settings and the slot’s macros ride the clipboard along with the mappings, shift layers, menus, and per-device tuning they already did. Paste replaces the target’s macros rather than adding to them.
• The band-type picker is localized, and the EQ editor’s frequency ceiling matches the engine’s.
• The DualShock 3 shows its pressure axes without Raw Joystick Mode again, after the 4.3.1 sparse-axis change computed the list too early.
• Fixes from the audits: a Move Navigation hand-mapped “Axis 15” no longer reads as foreign and strips the slot, the EQ grid rebuilds on every device-config swap rather than only on a device switch, an engine restart no longer leaves the firmware speaker path unasserted, a failed headphone-jack open no longer respawns a reader every five seconds, and the Mappings-tab paste stops the slot’s macro sounds before replacing its macros.

• The PlayStation Move Navigation controller works over Bluetooth. It pairs over WinUSB, takes its address from its own device node, pairs itself on the dock like the Move, and follows DsHidMini’s connect-time order exactly: output report first, then the input stream, then one enable packet and never a repeat.
• Idle Disconnect for the DualShock 3, PlayStation Move, and Navigation controller, off by default, set in minutes on the device’s Power section.
• Only the inputs a pad actually has. A Navigation controller listed every DualShock 3 button and axis it shares a report layout with. PadForge asks the pad which standardized buttons and axes it declares and shows only those, numbering preserved. The PlayStation Move and the VR controllers had the same defect and the same fix.
• Button numbering stays SDL’s positional numbering while a device is offline, so a button keeps one number either side of the boundary (discussion #344).
• A Switch 2 Pro Controller entry survives a restart, and PadForge stops rewriting its settings file while idle.
• Full Screen works from a maximized window (discussion #342), and the sidebar keeps one active bar (discussion #340).
• The DualSense sends its connect-time LED release over Bluetooth, so the lightbar comes up under PadForge’s control on a fresh connection.
• The offline voice model ships inside the executable, repacked with spec-correct separators.

• The web controller, rebuilt. Ten controller layouts instead of two: Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, DualShock 4, DualSense, DualSense Edge, Switch Pro, Switch 2 Pro, Steam Deck, and Steam Controller. The DualShock 4, DualSense, and Xbox Series cards carry color finishes you pick before opening them. The DualShock 4 and DualSense layouts draw the slot’s LED color on the pad’s own lightbar, and the DualSense adds its player indicator row, both configurable from the Lighting tab like the physical pads. Triggers get analog sliders, and the Steam layouts carry both trackpads and the rear buttons.
• Your phone’s motion, as a source. The page reads the handset’s gyroscope and accelerometer and streams them to the slot. Browsers only hand out sensor data over a secure connection, so PadForge binds a self-signed certificate and serves over HTTPS, with a QR code on the Dashboard to get the phone there.
• Build your own pad. A builder that starts from a blank surface and lets you drag sticks, buttons, triggers and touch areas to where your thumbs actually are, saved with your settings.
• Voice macros. Registered phrases spoken into a microphone fire macros, recognized offline by Vosk with no account and no cloud. The model ships inside PadForge, so it works on a machine that has never been online.
• PlayStation Move and Navigation controllers over USB and Bluetooth, including the Move’s sphere and motion.
• Real VR devices as input sources. A headset’s pose and its motion controllers become mapping sources, so what you are holding in VR can drive a flat game.
• 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse. The 6DoF puck reports as a mapping source, all six axes.
• Remote Link over the internet. Dial another PadForge PC by code with no VPN and no port forwarding.
• Pressure-sensitive turbo. The repeat rate follows how hard the button or trigger is pressed.
• Trackball momentum on sticks, plus clamp and gain knobs for the touchpad’s existing momentum.
• Gyro Tilt. A degree-ranged tilt mode alongside the existing rate mode, with Gyro Lean documented and its Sensitivity dial fixed, plus a Recenter action and independent yaw and roll inversion.
• Low-battery notifications, plus an identify buzz that rumbles any device so you can tell which one it is.
• A Diagnostics section in Settings. Versions to paste into a report, a log you can switch on without a launch flag, and a Save Snapshot button that writes out the last few minutes of engine events even when logging was off.
• Mapping picker gains find-as-you-type and device filtering, and the search filters the table.
• Moza wheels recognized, and DualSense effect passthrough for games that drive the triggers themselves.
• Anti-deadzone floors the stick pair rather than each axis, which closes the gaps that showed at the cardinals.
• Mirror System Audio no longer cracks over Bluetooth when the loopback ring runs dry under bursty capture.

• Virtual VR controllers. A VR slot presents a full SteamVR left and right hand pair, driven by any controller, keyboard, or motion source you map to it. One slot serves both hands, every stick, trigger, grip and button is a mapping target, and the game’s haptics come back out through the device you are actually holding. PadForge installs the SteamVR runtime itself if you do not have it, with no Steam account and no Steam client, to a folder you choose.
• Headset head tracking. Sony headphones that carry a head tracker, confirmed on the WH-1000XM5 family, become a motion source. Turn your head to aim, lean, or drive anything that takes gyro. Discovery is by capability rather than a model list, so any headset exposing the same sensor collection works.
• Controller audio and microphone. An opt-in virtual USB persona carries the DualSense’s voice-coil haptics, its speaker, and its microphone, so authored haptics and controller audio reach the pad the way a PS5 does it.
• Bundled starter profiles. Thirteen general-purpose archetypes, from twin-stick to racing to space sim, ready to apply to any controller instead of starting from an empty grid.
• Keep Controller Awake. Holds a small idle deflection so games stop cutting vibration the moment you touch the mouse or keyboard.
• Sony calibration reports. Virtual DualSense and DS4 controllers now answer the calibration feature report that games with native PlayStation support demand, so those titles stop rejecting them.
• DualShock 3 first-run pairing. Seven stacked defects in the driver install are fixed, so a clean machine pairs instead of flashing forever.
• Steam Controller 2015 rumble emulated on the touchpad haptics, plus a fix for the Bluetooth swipe-haptic stall that made the touchpad mouse teleport.
• Left Joy-Con gyro gains the Horizontal (Yaw + Roll) blend, and IR Brightness works on a combined Joy-Con pair.
• Controller finishes in the preview. Ten DualSense colorways including Spider-Man 2 and Final Fantasy XVI, thirteen Xbox Series finishes, and the DualSense Edge as its own model family.

• Steam Workshop config import. Browse the community controller configs on the Steam Workshop and translate the one you pick into a PadForge profile, over an anonymous Steam connection with no account.
• DualShock 3 controllers. Plug one in over USB and PadForge binds it with WinUSB on the spot, or pair it over Bluetooth from the Devices page, which installs a signed BthPS3 driver on demand. Sixaxis motion, ten pressure axes, rumble, the player LED, and battery all report.
• Wii pointer modes. The Wii Remote’s IR camera becomes an on-screen pointer, with an FPS-mouse mode, aspect-corrected border modes, and a freeze that holds position when the sensor bar leaves view instead of snapping to a corner.
• Mouse gestures. Hold a mouse button and flick up, down, left, or right to fire an action.
• Stick Trim. A stick ramps a held digital trigger into a smooth analog press.
• SOCD cleaning. Opposite key presses on the Keyboard & Mouse controller resolve with last-wins (Snap Tap), first-wins, or neutral.
• Guide button LED brightness. Dim the Xbox button on Xbox One, Elite, and Series pads over USB, and the 2015 Steam Controller’s home LED, fixed or following the battery.
• Shift layers gain a long-press activation delay and an inactivity auto-cancel.
• Text Block macro action types text a character at a time.
• Clone Device 1:1 copies a device’s controls onto an Extended slot in one click.
• Raw Axis N sources up to 24 axes.
• Nintendo virtual controller. A virtual Switch Pro Controller through HIDMaestro, with gyro passthrough and HOME LED control.
• Bass Shakers. Game rumble and force feedback route to any audio output as low-frequency tones, four voices with per-voice frequency and gain.
• Flick Stick. Flick sources on either stick or a touchpad, with a rotation offset card.
• Twelve macro fire modes. On Single / Double / Triple Press, On Long Press, On Short Press, Toggle, and Turbo join the original five.
• Axis macro actions. Latch a virtual axis to a value, release it, or scale it from a macro.
• Macro layer scope. A macro can limit itself to chosen shift layers.
• SOCD on controller buttons. Opposing-pair cleaning beyond the Keyboard & Mouse controller, per slot.
• Pressure-sensitive touchpads. Per-finger pressure as mapping sources.
• Touchpad swipe haptics tick the pad as a finger travels, and a custom activation button arms mouse gestures from any recorded input.
• HOME LED on Switch controllers. Fifteen brightness steps on Switch Pro and right Joy-Con, joining the Xbox Guide LED control.
• Joy-Con pair audio follows the motor. Haptic tones play through the coil the game drives.
• Left Joy-Con aux motion. A paired Joy-Con exposes the left half’s gyro and accelerometer as separate sources.
• Per-source Acceleration, Invert Output, and Fire on Release. New per-row tuning, plus activators that fire when released.
• Trackpad pointer response. A libinput-derived acceleration curve makes touchpad-as-mouse feel like a laptop trackpad.
• Trackball momentum. Flick the touchpad or the mouse stick and the cursor coasts to a stop on real constant-friction physics (a port of the Steam Controller driver’s own trackball), with glide, fling boost, threshold, speed cap, and a stacking mode that builds speed across swipes.
• Time-based cursor rates. Keyboard + Mouse cursor and scroll speeds are real rates, independent of polling rate.
• Clear All clears everything. The Mappings tab’s Clear All resets sources, options, and tuning in one confirmed step.
• Carrying forward from 3.5 and 3.6: Wii Bluetooth pairing, Remote Link across PCs, native wheel force feedback, MIDI in and out, and controller-speaker audio.

Full documentation at padforge.org/docs. Every device PadForge recognizes by USB identity is on the supported devices list.