Borderlands GOTY

Borderlands GOTY

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Controller Support
By SB
Guide on how to setup USB controllers.
   
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Xbox 360 Controller
This is an easy one:

1. Connect your Xbox 360 Controller to your PC

2. Wait for Windows to install drivers

3. Locate the "WillowGame.ini" file on your computer
(C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config)
NOTE: sometimes the file is called "DefaultGame.ini"

4. Edit the following line:
FakePlatform=-1

You only edit the "-1" to whatever buttons you want to display in-game.

For PC keyboard/mouse:
FakePlatform=-1

For Xbox buttons:
FakePlatform=1

For PS3 buttons:
FakePlatform=2

Save the file and open your game, you will see Xbox 360 button icons on screen.
Other USB Controllers
The point is to emulate the Xbox 360 Controller, it doesn't matter if you use a PS3, Logitech or any other one, the game will "think" it's a 360 controller, for in-game button icons you just edit the FakePlatform=-1 line.

1. Connect your USB controller to your PC

2. Install the drivers

3. Download a tool called TocaEdit Xbox 360 Controller Emulator Application
Download[x360ce.googlecode.com]

4. Extract the zip file into your Binaries folder where your game is (it's the same folder where borderlands.exe is, probably C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Borderlands\Binaries)

5. Now when you run x360ce.exe it will ask you to match the buttons on your USB controller to the ones on the 360 controller

6. After you are done click on save and close the program.

7. Locate the "WillowGame.ini" file on your computer
(C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config)
NOTE: sometimes the file is called "DefaultGame.ini"

8. Edit the following line:
FakePlatform=-1

You only edit the -1 to whatever buttons you want to display in-game.

For PC keyboard/mouse:
FakePlatform=-1

For Xbox buttons:
FakePlatform=1

For PS3 buttons:
FakePlatform=2

Save the file and open your game, you should see the correct button icons in-game.
13 Comments
Tamed Delirium 12 Jul @ 11:47pm 
thanks a ton!
CTMoo 8 Apr, 2020 @ 9:26am 
Do you know whether there is any way to make the game completely turn off the keyboard and use only the controller instead (like how it works on a console)??
The Crescent Hawk 12 Sep, 2017 @ 7:36pm 
Yes, I use the Xbox One Controller on mine and it works perfect.
RapidReacts 10 Mar, 2015 @ 4:27pm 
Does this work for xbox one controllers?
mr.shen 15 Feb, 2015 @ 9:16am 
@kmanktelow.... Why else, to help microsoft become an even bigger jerk. No but really I think it may have something to with the idea they wanted to be lazy, and not work on the driver issues. who really knows.
kmanktelow 20 Oct, 2014 @ 1:04pm 
Brilliant! Thanks a million!
Why couldn't GearBox have done that automatically, though?
papyjinn 2 Oct, 2014 @ 9:14am 
XPADER EMULATEUR DE TOUT MANETTES POUR PC §§§§
Xenow0lf 27 Sep, 2014 @ 10:44pm 
I DID THAT but my moving is invered
ITuneUP 27 Sep, 2014 @ 3:38pm 
OMG you are my Hero (y) <3
K4ever 22 Sep, 2014 @ 9:37pm 
Awesome works like a charm, Thanks!