commonmugger/steam-controller-remapper

Steam Controller Remapper is a small Windows tray application for people who own a Valve Steam Controller and want to use it without Steam Input grabbing control of it. The Steam Controller is the discontinued Valve gamepad that has two touchpads and four back paddles. Normally it only works fully inside Steam; outside Steam it falls back to a basic keyboard/mouse mode called lizard mode. This app turns lizard mode off and makes the controller appear to Windows as a regular wired Xbox 360 controller through a driver called ViGEmBus. On top of that base behaviour, the app adds per-game profiles for the back paddles and other buttons. You can build profiles in a full desktop editor and switch them in-session from a small widget that lives inside the Xbox Game Bar (the panel that opens when you press Win + G). The desktop editor lets you add game library folders or direct paths to game executables, refresh the installed-game list, and bind each paddle to a gamepad button, a keyboard shortcut, a macro, or to nothing. You can also enable rapid fire and navigate the whole editor using the controller itself. The Game Bar widget shows the active profile and detected game, can toggle auto-switch, and lets you do quick remaps of the L4, L5, R4, R5, and QAM buttons during play. A limitation of the widget is that those quick remaps only set gamepad buttons; choosing a value there will overwrite any key chord or macro previously stored on that paddle. The tray icon menu offers fast toggles for Steamless Mode, auto-enable, trackpad mouse behaviour, Start with Windows, and a clean exit. The app automatically backs off when Steam itself is running so Steam Input can take over, then steps back in when Steam closes. It auto-switches to a matching profile when a game launches and returns to a Default profile when that game closes. It supports Steam libraries, Xbox and Game Pass installs, generic game folders, and direct .exe sources. Installation needs Windows 10 or later, 64-bit, plus ViGEmBus. A bundled installer puts the app in Program Files, enables Start with Windows, imports the widget certificate, and installs the Game Bar widget. The project is a fork of ddeverill's SteamlessController, focused on making Xbox Mode reliable across reboots and on clean handoff to and from Steam.