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Controllers

Pads, arcade sticks, encoders and light guns: getting them working with your build.

Setting up a controller: USB and Bluetooth pads, and mapping buttons

Plug in a USB pad and it usually just works; for Bluetooth, put the pad in pairing mode and use the build's Bluetooth pairing option. If buttons are wrong or the pad is not seen, hold a button on the configure controller screen and map each button when asked.

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Arcade sticks, encoders and light guns (Sinden and GUN4IR)

Arcade sticks and USB encoder boards show up as a normal gamepad or keyboard, so you map them like any controller. Modern light guns such as Sinden and GUN4IR work on flat TVs, but need their own setup and a build that supports them, so check the build's post first.

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