Thank you. I’ve found all your videos extremely helpful! This one is solving a couple of problems I’ve been working on for a few days.

This is really helpful! Steam fighting games, I have about 12, have always been a pain for a proper arcade setup. Recently Xtension Arcade released a controller board firmware update that enables hotkey combination switches to change over to X-input (X-Box 360 mode)... which was a pretty good solution. But this would be an even more automatic, streamlined solution. Thanks!

Awesome work as always

Great video. Make sure to post it on the launch box forums to get more viewers.

Nice, thank you for the information. Much appreciated! I personally use hyperspin with rocked launcher. For pc games UCR works flawlesly for four virtual joysticks. It launches the emulator on mk11 launch and unloads after its closes it. Works pretty much like yours! Nice to see an alternative solution!

I’ve been trying to find out a way to do this and this looks like it would do exactly what I need. Great job! I don’t have LEDs on my arcade cabinet though. Would the script change if I don’t have LEDs, and if so do you have that version?

I couldn't get this to work out of the box following the video since my hardware configuration is a little different. My P2 input was also controlling my player 1 (because of directinput and lack of keyblocker). It took a lot of trial and error to get it working, but I finally did so here is the solution for anyone else who encounters this. The only thing I wasn't able to figure out was P1 shows up as an Xbox 360 controller and P2 as an Xbox One controller, but it doesnt' seem to affect gameplay other than changing the button silhoutttes. Hardware: 2 x Ultrastik 360 connected via USB (no buttons connected) Buttons connected to IPAC Ultimate IO (in keyboard mode) This is how I was able to resolve this for both Injustice 2 and Mortal Kombat II. Not sure if there is a better way, but I tried both UCR alpha and x360ce, and couldn't get it to work consistently the way I wanted it for all my steam games. I had a lot of issues with P2 also controlling P1, this is resolved by disabling Direct Input in the games (usersettings.ini) and also using another program to block specific keys (I used VJoy 1.2). I also increased the initialwait time ($InitialWaitTime=7) for errors where the game process wasn't detected in time. Workflow below: Download: vjoy.software.informer.com/1.2/ (needs to be 1.2 new version doesn't seem to have the same config.) 1. Run Vjoy and set the buttons to match to the same buttons being used by VirtualController and click the check box for "Blocked Keys" (your keyboard will stop registering those buttons, so you won't be able to type and until you close this from tasktray). 2. Disable Direct Input in the games (this fixes both Injustice 2 and Mortal Kombat 11). I had to do this because I have Ultrastik 360 and buttons connected to IPAC Ulimate IO, which were causing conflicts, this also will negate the inputs from Vjoy as well I believe. Ctrl-R %LOCALAPPDATA%\ C:\Users\\AppData\Local\MK11\UserSettings.ini Set: DirectInput = off 3. In Chuck's script insert just before he runs Virtualcontroller.exe (line 124) (change the path to your vjoy folder). I ran into some issues with this. If VJoy loads after VirtualController then the keys are blocked for virtualcontroller. So the script needs to load Vjoy first, I added a small delay to make sure it gets to load first. Write-Host "Launching Virtual Controller" #New Code Start-Process "D:\LaunchBox\X360 Emulation\Vjoy\VJoy.exe" -WorkingDirectory "D:\LaunchBox\X360 Emulation\VJoy" -ArgumentList '-file "D:\LaunchBox\X360 Emulation\VJoy\YOURVJOYPROFILE.ini"', "-blockkeys 1" Start-Sleep 2 #End of New Code Start-Process "D:\LaunchBox\X360 Emulation\Virtual Controller\VirtualController.exe" -WorkingDirectory "D:\LaunchBox\X360 Emulation\Virtual Controller" -ArgumentList "/run","/load x360_controls.vcd","/minimize" On line 164 insert: stop-process -Name "VJoy"

This video helped me alot but with 4 U360s and 2 Ipac ultimates. That being said I'd make an updated version and re-label the name of it. Arcade panel Xbox controls for PC. Also inherently powershell doesn't alow scripts to be ran by being opened it's easier to after completing and running the script in powershell to test converting it to a .exe file.

Love it man!! Is your patron still up! I owe you a little something 👍

Great video What joysticks are u using on the cab to play mk11

I got this working for MK10 but there are 2 problems: The game lights switch back to the arcade mode The escape button is not killing the process. Any ideas to get this fixed?

Thanks for this tutorial. I'm trying to use vJoy without the powershell script. When I run the game, its trying to utilize the keyboard inputs from my IPAC and the v-controller input at the same time, so I end up getting double the input for one input. Is there a way to disable the keyboard inputs so I only get the v-controller input?

I'm having trouble getting this working, I know 0 about powershell. I replaced the file locations to the locations for my system, the only difference is I am trying to use this to launch Dragon Ball FighterZ, I have no idea what the issue is. When I launch using this the LEDBlinky part works, but the game never loads and a notepad screen of the script just pops up, the controllers never connect with Virtual Controller or anything. Any help would be great!

Works great Thanks. Is there a way to get it to work with xbox gamepass in launchbox as it doesn't have a EXE file to use?

Could you do "shift" functionality where you press 1 of the right most buttons and pressing another simulates your interact and throws?

Great tutorial/guide, unfortunately I could not complete it due to your link to the PowerShell script is dead. I started writing the code on the screen, but sadly you minimized half the code in the middle of going through it. I would much appreciate a new link to the script though :) Greetings from a custom arcade cabinet builder and owner from Norway :)

@Maverick's Arcade Chuck can you please check if you also have the problem that the keyboard also stays active with this setup? I bought MK11 and did everything like you showed in the video, but the keyboard also stays active toghteher with the virtual controler. You can see the menu icons change from controller buttons to keyboard letters if you press a button. I tried it with real controllers and it works perfect. Can you check if you can fix this please?

Hey Chuck, I followed along with your video and edited the script accordingly but im getting an error when trying to run the script. I know nothing about powershell, care to take a look and help me out? -Billy

I can get the script to run 1 initial time. However, any sequential tires at running the script it gives me this error below. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. get-process : Cannot find a process with the name "MK10". Verify the process name and call the cmdlet again. At D:\PowerShell Scripts\LaunchMK10.ps1:147 char:8 + while (get-process -name $EXEBaseName) { + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (MK10:String) [Get-Process], ProcessCommandException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoProcessFoundForGivenName,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetProcessCommand Stopping Virtual Controller stop-process : Cannot find a process with the name "Steam". Verify the process name and call the cmdlet again. At D:\PowerShell Scripts\LaunchMK10.ps1:163 char:1 + stop-process -Name "Steam" + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Steam:String) [Stop-Process], ProcessCommandException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoProcessFoundForGivenName,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StopProcessCommand

What about the Ultimate IO’s gamepad emulation?

Why don't you use joytokey instead?

This seems over complicated. It worked out of the box for me (zero delay encoders)