So, here's my problem. I like to read visual novels while bundled up in my blanket. Using a mouse and keyboard makes that difficult, so I use my PS2 controller. However, whenever I play visual novels, some controls are already assigned to the controller, so while I'd want JoyToKey to make the X button act as a mouse click, it ends up doing both the mouse click and whatever the game already assigned that button to.

I know I can just use another button, but you're asking me to use Triangle as "Accept/OK" and that is NOT acceptable OR OK. It was bad enough when Final Fantasy 8 made me use Circle as Accept/OK, but this is crossing the line.

*ahem* So, is there a way to block a device's input on a program-level only, and not end up blocking it completely?

 

I've had it occur with most (if not all) visual novels I've read/played on the computer. I always make the X button LMB or Space, and in Japan, the X button is usually for menu or back, which is the exact opposite of what I want it to do. As for changing the hotkeys, there's rarely an option to do that in these types of programs. So yeah. A pickle indeed. Using Triangle to advance text is just... barbaric.

 

I know what he meant, I'm just thinking if I know an app that sandboxes other programs in a way that could filter that problem out. All that's coming to my head are convoluted VM setups or digging in the game config files right now, but I'm sure there's "something" out there that could solve his problem.

 

There is no simple .ini. I'd have to mess around with the files, unpack them, repack them, etc., assuming I can even find a tool to do so. I guess I'll have to stick to /\ for now.

 

Oh god, I completely forgot about that. I have to restart PCSX2 all the time because I plug in my controller after I started the game. It worked. You're awesome. You saved me from the lunacy that is using /\ as accept/enter/ok.