Step 6 – Configuring the D-Pad and other Joystick buttons

After you, push the analog on your gamepad, a transparent bubble shapes would appear on the window, drag and drop them to their corresponding controller locations, as shown in this image.

Make sure your gamepad/joystick is connected to your computer before you open Xpadder.

Now, simply install the above linked Xpadder, by clicking next.

The above package also contains, sample 3 images which are required for configuring joysticks, and an example mapping profile just incase you’re too lazy to map keys 🙂.

Click here to download Xpadder free for Windows 7/8/8.1/10.

In our tutorial we will be using an older version of Xpadder, which is free to use for playing games with weak or no gamepad support.

Xpadder used to be free until version 5.3, but now if you try to download it from its official site –, it won’t be for free!.

Tutorial to configure Xpadder on Windows 10 / 7 / 8.1 (32-bit as well as 64-bit) Step 1 – Downloading Xpadder

Let’s have a brief look into the following tutorial to configure xpadder for Windows 7/8/8.1/10 – Yes its possible to do such actions by a small free utility – Xpadder v 5.3, Xpadder lets you simulate keyboard key presss, and mouse actions by mapping the keyboard keypress, and mouse actions to Joystick and Gamepad buttons!. Or by someway we could have been able to simulate keyboard key -press or mouse control simply on our gamepads, which would make playing games much easier! especially the online & DOS based games. Some games are very difficult to play on the normal keyboard + mouse combo and we feel that it would have been better if the game supported gamepads, joysticks.

Xpadder for windows 10