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Sorry not sure to finish today finally, underestimated the amount of work for that again. The api is quite simple, but it obliges to make big changes to handle it, plus there is a lot of testing to be done, I plugged again my old sidewinder joystick to have something which is not a gamepad, and it was a good idea, some functions like player indexes are not supported with this kind of joystick ! Also I forgot the inputs are recognized by name now, instead of button 0, you have A for xbox pads, etc... Simple changes, but which take time. And there are 3 indexes for joysticks now, the base index which is the order in which they are opened, the player index which is the index of the joystick for raine (which finally allows that a joystick stays in its position and doesn't change if something else is plugged), and the instance index which is the number used to identify it in events, and it changes everytime it's plugged/unplugged. So all that creates quite a mess, but I am starting to see the end of it... Also if you wonder why it wasn't easy to automatically map the cross, or digital pad on the left of a game pad to the left joystick, it's because there are no standard in the way these gamepads are built. For my old ps3 gamepad, this cross is just 4 buttons (!). For the xbox compatible game pad, it's a "hat" + some axis movement which is not related to the left stick ! So it was quite risky to try to map an input to some other input in these conditions. What they did in sdl2 is they added something to map and recognize the controls of all these gamepads, now you know exactly where an input comes from when you receive it, and so you can link it easily to some other input... !