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Mouse-look injector for emulators on Linux? (pawb.social)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by HouseWolf@pawb.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I've been playing some older console FPS games lately and my aim with sticks is beyond rusty after not aiming with a pad in over a decade.

On the Windows side some people have made "mouse injectors" like KAMI and MouseInjectorDolphinDuck.

Rather than just binding the right stick to mouse inputs (which I have tried and it feels awful when it even works at all). It injects into the game/emulator directly to mimic mouse look as close as possible to a native PC titles.

Can't seem to find any similar projects being worked on for Linux? Or am I just blind a missing something obvious again?

KAMI has some Linux build stuff in the repo but according to the dev it's "Just some scaffolding" and not actually supported.

Edit: fixed spelling

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

If you play through Steam, you can use Steam Input to map the right stick to your mouse I think.

I've only done it the reverse (mouse to stick), and not for fps, so I can't say how smooth it is, but Steam Input is generally pretty good.

If it's not a Steam game you can still add it to your library with the "add non-Steam game" button, and then open it through Steam

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 2 months ago

I agree, this will be the easiest solution - just add the emulator executable to steam as game and you can use Steam Input to remap pretty much everything.

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