Ported from BT411, which needed the same thing for its glass cockpit. PadRIO reads XInput, which covers Xbox-class pads and nothing else. A flight stick, a HOTAS throttle, a twist grip, rudder pedals or a wheel arrive through DirectInput instead, and until now the game could not see any of them - the only generic-joystick path left was the 1995 single- device DIJoystick behind L4CONTROLS=DIJOYSTICK, which is untouched here. L4JOY is the reader: up to four devices as normalized state blocks, hot- plug re-enumeration on the same ~3 s cadence PadRIO uses to look for a pad, and a device lost mid-race zeroed rather than left holding whatever was pressed when it went. XInput-class devices are excluded by VID/PID against the RawInput paths carrying the "IG_" marker - without that an Xbox pad arrives through both APIs and every button counts twice. bindings.txt gains four rows in the grammar it already had, using its own vocabulary (deadzone/rate) rather than BT411's: joydev <slot> [product-name substring] joyaxis <src> axis <axis> [invert] [deadzone <d>] [rate <n>] joybutton <n> button <addr> [toggle] joyhat <n> <up|down|left|right> button <addr> Slots resolve to a live device every poll, by name substring or ordinal, so unplugging and replugging does not rewrite anyone's file. Two things the pod's shape forced that BT411 solved differently: Pedals - a signed composite axis that decomposes into the pod's two pedals, positive right and negative left. The pod has a pedal each side; a twist grip or rudder bar is one signed control, and pressing one or the other but never both is exactly what it wants to say. It is a channel name like any other, so a pad stick can drive the turn too. A joyaxis on Throttle with no rate is a real lever and OWNS the channel - full travel maps onto the 0..1 the pod runs on, instead of nudging the accumulator that a spring-centred pad stick has to use. RP412JOYCONFIG=1 (joyconfig.bat) runs the capture wizard before the console screen: it asks the player to move each control, and derives the sign convention from the DIRECTION of the move. That is the point of it - a stick that reads positive pushed right and one that reads negative are equally common, and no amount of documentation gets a player to work out which they own. It writes only its own section, between marker lines, so hand-edited keyboard and pad rows survive re-running it. The wizard also prints every axis at rest before it starts. A driver that refuses the +-32767 range we ask for reports its own, and an axis then sits hard over instead of near zero; seeing "X +1.00" on an untouched stick is the difference between a five-minute fix and a bug report that says it configured itself. Each capture reports the move it saw for the same reason. Verified on the Logitech Extreme 3D on this machine. Enumeration finds it and excludes the Xbox pad, which still arrives separately through XInput. Every row shape parses - 7 axes, 2 buttons, 4 hat directions - and three deliberately malformed rows (a bad axis name, button 99, a "sideways" hat) are each rejected by line number rather than silently dropped. The wizard lists the device with its axes at rest reading X +0.00 Y -0.01 RZ -0.04 SL0 +1.00, waits on the first prompt without self-triggering, and with a hand on the stick captures X to steering, Y to pitch, RZ to the pedals and SL0 to the throttle, inverting the ones that read backwards. Running the captures through to a written file needs a hand on the stick, so that part is the machine's to confirm, not this build's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Red Planet 4.12 — controls map
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Generated from the default `bindings.txt` (the file the game writes
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beside the exe on first run). Everything here is rebindable: edit that
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file and restart, or delete it to get these defaults back.
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Grammar reminder, from the file's own header:
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```
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key <name> button <addr> [toggle]
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key <name> axis <axis> deflect <n> # held, springs back
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key <name> axis <axis> rate <n> # walks per second, sticks
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pad <button> button <addr> [toggle]
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padaxis <src> axis <axis> [invert] [deadzone <d>] [rate <n>]
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```
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---
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## Xbox controller
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```
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( LB ) Panic Throttle / reverse ( RB )
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( LT ) Left pedal Right pedal ( RT )
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______________________________________________________
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/ \
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/ [Back] [Start] \
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| unbound unbound |
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| |
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| ,--. (Y) |
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| ( L ) stick X / Y Upper |
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| `--' (X) (B) |
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| +---+ Pinky Middle |
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| D-pad --> |hat| (A) |
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| +---+ Main |
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| |
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| ,--. |
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| ( R ) throttle (Y axis) |
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\ `--' /
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\____________________________________________________ _/
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```
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| Control | Does | RIO address |
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|---|---|---|
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| Left stick | Joystick X / Y (inverted, deadzone 0.24 — pod convention) | axes |
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| Right stick Y | Throttle, as a **rate**: hold to wind it up or down, position sticks | axis |
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| Left / right trigger | Left / right pedal (deadzone 0.12) | axes |
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| **A** | Main trigger | `0x40` |
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| **B** | Middle | `0x46` |
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| **X** | Pinky | `0x45` |
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| **Y** | Upper | `0x47` |
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| **LB** | Panic | `0x3D` |
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| **RB** | Throttle button — reverse thrust | `0x3F` |
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| D-pad | Hat: up / back / left / right (look) | `0x42` `0x41` `0x44` `0x43` |
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| **Start**, **Back** | unbound — yours to map | — |
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The config buttons (`0x37`/`0x36`) are the first two buttons of the
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Upper Right MFD's top row, reachable from the keyboard on `9` and `0`.
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Start and Back ship unbound so you can put anything there; the
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commented lines in `bindings.txt` show how.
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---
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## Keyboard
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### Flight cluster — the number pad
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```
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+-----+-----+-----+
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| 7 | 8 | 9 | 7 / 9 left / right pedal
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| Lped| fwd |Rped | 8 / 2 stick forward / back
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+-----+-----+-----+ 4 / 6 stick left / right
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| 4 | 5 | 6 | 0 main trigger
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| left| |right|
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+-----+-----+-----+
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| 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| | back| |
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+-----+-----+-----+
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| 0 | . |
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| trigger | |
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+-----------+-----+
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Shift throttle up Ctrl throttle down Alt reverse thrust
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(both throttle keys walk the axis and it holds where you leave it)
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```
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| Key | Does |
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|---|---|
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| NumPad 8 / 2 | Stick forward / back |
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| NumPad 4 / 6 | Stick left / right |
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| NumPad 7 / 9 | Left / right pedal |
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| NumPad 0, Space | Main trigger (`0x40`) |
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| Shift / Ctrl | Throttle up / down (position holds) |
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| Alt | Reverse thrust (`0x3F`) |
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| Arrow keys | Hat — look up / back / left / right |
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| **Alt + Q** | Abort the mission (score banked, back to menu or lobby) |
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### Panel buttons — the letter and number rows
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The rest of the keyboard is the pod's button board, laid out as it is
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printed on the panel. Each MFD has 8 buttons (a 4-wide top row and a
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4-wide bottom row); the keyboard rows run left to right across the
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three upper MFDs, then the two lower ones.
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```
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UPPER MFDs Left MFD Middle MFD Right MFD
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top row 1 2 3 4 | 5 6 7 8 | 9 0 - =
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bottom row Q W E R | T Y U I | O P [ ]
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0x2F..0x2C 0x27..0x24 0x37..0x34
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0x2B..0x28 0x23..0x20 0x33..0x30
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LOWER MFDs Left MFD Right MFD
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top row A S D F (G unbound) H J K L
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bottom row Z X C V (B unbound) N M , .
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0x0F..0x0C 0x07..0x04
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0x0B..0x08 0x03..0x00
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COLUMNS beside the map
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Secondary F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 0x10..0x15
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Screen F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 0x18..0x1D
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```
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G and B are deliberately unbound: they are the physical gap between the
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Lower Left and Lower Right MFD clusters on the real board.
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Every one of these buttons is also **clickable on screen** — the red
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strips around each MFD and the amber strips beside the map are the same
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addresses, and they light up when the game commands their lamps.
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### Not bound by default
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The pilot keypad (`0x50`–`0x5F`) and external operator keypad
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(`0x60`–`0x6F`) have no keys assigned — the game never reads them. They
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remain bindable if you want them (they arrive as arcade RIO key events).
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---
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## RGB keyboard lighting
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If the machine has a Dynamic Lighting keyboard, bound panel keys mirror
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the pod's lamps: red for the MFD banks, amber/yellow for the Secondary
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and Screen columns, blinking in step with the on-screen buttons.
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Unbound keys go dark. Set `RP412KEYLIGHT=0` in `environ.ini` to switch
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it off.
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---
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## Flight sticks, HOTAS and rudder pedals
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Anything that is not an Xbox-class pad — a flight stick, a HOTAS
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throttle, a twist grip, rudder pedals, a wheel — comes in through
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DirectInput rather than XInput, and needs to be told which axis is
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which. **Run `joyconfig.bat` once.** It asks you to move each control in
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turn, works out which device and axis you moved and which way round it
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reads, and writes the joystick rows of `bindings.txt`. Then it carries
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on into the setup screen so you can try them straight away.
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It only writes its own section, between two marker lines, so anything
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you have edited yourself survives re-running it. Xbox-class controllers
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need none of this — they are the pad rows above and work out of the box.
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By hand, the rows look like this:
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```
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joydev 0 T.16000M # or a bare slot number
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joyaxis X axis JoystickX invert deadzone 0.08
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joyaxis Y axis JoystickY invert deadzone 0.08
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joyaxis RZ axis Pedals deadzone 0.08 # twist grip works both pedals
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joyaxis SL0 axis Throttle deadzone 0 # a real lever owns the channel
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joybutton 0 button 0x40 # trigger
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joyhat 0 up button 0x42
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```
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Axis names are DirectInput's — `X Y Z RX RY RZ SL0 SL1` — where a twist
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grip is usually `RZ` and a HOTAS throttle usually `Z` or `SL0`.
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Two things are worth knowing. `Pedals` is a signed axis that drives the
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pedal *pair*, positive for the right pedal and negative for the left, so
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one rudder bar or twist grip works both the way a foot never could. And
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a `joyaxis` on `Throttle` with no `rate` is treated as a real lever: its
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full travel *is* the throttle range, rather than nudging a position the
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way a spring-centred pad stick has to.
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## Rebinding
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`bindings.txt` sits beside the exe, written with the full default layout
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and its own documentation on first run. Change a line, restart the game.
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Delete the file to restore these defaults — worth doing after an update,
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since an existing file is never overwritten.
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Examples:
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```
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key J button 0x40 # main trigger on J as well
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pad X button 0x40 # move the trigger to the X button
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key NumPadAdd axis Throttle rate 0.75 # throttle on numpad +/-
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key NumPadSubtract axis Throttle rate -0.75
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padaxis LeftStickX axis JoystickX deadzone 0.15 # drop 'invert' to flip X
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```
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Addresses: `0x00`–`0x47` are the lamp buttons above, `0x50`–`0x6F` the
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keypads. Axis names: `Throttle`, `LeftPedal`, `RightPedal`, `JoystickX`,
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`JoystickY`, `Pedals`. Key names follow the .NET `Keys` naming (`A`–`Z`, `D0`–`D9`
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for the digit row, `F1`–`F12`, `NumPad0`–`NumPad9`, `Up`, `Down`,
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`Left`, `Right`, `Space`, `Return`, `Shift`, `Ctrl`, `Alt`,
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`OemMinus`, `Oemplus`, `Oemcomma`, `OemPeriod`, `OemOpenBrackets`,
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`OemCloseBrackets`, …).
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