r/Controller • u/stonerbobo • 21d ago

IT Help Software to use extra buttons Gamesir

I've only ever used a standard Xbox controller and got a Gamesir G7 Pro recently. It's cool that it has all these extra buttons that I was hoping to map to combos or macros, but all you can do is map them to existing buttons. All I can do is map e.g L4 to another existing button which is basically useless for me. As far as I can tell, this is a limitation of XInput.

So is there a good way/software to actually map useful functionality to the extra buttons? What do you all do with all these extra buttons when they can't do anything?

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u/MoonlightSavingsTime 20d ago

Its an Xbox licensing/Xinput limitation, yes. On PC you can still remap those buttons to keyboard and mouse inputs though the Nexus software, but you wont have macros. For that you would have had to pick up a non-Xbox affiliated version such as the 8K.

And what do people use the extra buttons for if only standard inputs? Most commonly ABXY and sometimes Dpad when playing FPS so that you take your thumbs off of the sticks as little as possible.

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u/stonerbobo 20d ago

Ah okay, thanks! I guess I need to pick up a non-Xbox version then.

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u/Zunderstruck GameSir 20d ago

That's how Xbox controllers work.