Are you lazy ?
Yes, I know you are. Dont lie. You’ll only lie to yourself.
Don’t be shy. I’m here for you.
You want to play an action game but you’re too lazy to make a gamepad layout. You’re lucky. I did it for you:

So this .mgc is a generic gamepad you can easily edit. It comes with a little Options menu to do quick changes in-game.
Link for the file at the end of the description. Read the description first. Please.

Test game: Tintin in Tibet (Infogrames, 1996)

HOW TO INSTALL
. Add a new game to your collection and choose Import .mgc.
. Select this virtual gamepad .mgc
. Edit game title, cover, game path and technical things
. Start your game
By default, you will have a simple gamepad with dpad and two buttons: A and B.

OPTIONS MENU
To open the option menu, swipe from up to down. From it, you can choose a layout opacity (0%, 50% or 100%), enable/disable buttons and double tap:

You can also use a notepad to write things. Just click the notepad icon, just at the right of OPTIONS title.

SHOW/HIDE LAYOUT
To show/hide the layout, swipe from down to up (when hidden, the layout is also disabled). I’m using this for cinematics.

MAPPING YOUR BUTTONS
You’ll need to map buttons to keyboard. To do this, enter the edit layout mode. You should have this screen:

You’ll need to use only two layers: button click and double tap. These layers are at the top of layers list.
On button click layer, you can edit each button and map it to a keyboard key.
Save the layout. Done.

MORE DETAILS ON HOW TO DO THAT

1. Open the General Settings by using the return button of your device then click on that “Pause” icon to enter the layout edition mode

2. You should have the screen below with the Layers List on the right.

3.Since the Layers List will hide some buttons, you mayb want to put it on the other side by using the little arrow.

4.To map your first button, be sure to select the “Button Clic” layer. A small red/purple/pink frame should be visible around the selected layer’s name

5.Then select the button you want to map. For this example, it will be the Triangle (graphics could be different for you, depending on the version of that .mgc you’re using). A new window should be visible and will be used to edit that button.

6.Enter the widget edit mode by taping the Pen on that new window

7.A new window should open. Scroll down until you find the part showed on the screenshot. This part decide wich keyboard key will be pressed when taping the Triangle button. In my example, it’s already set on the “h”. Be sure the “Enabled” is selected, too.

8.You will have a complete list of keyboard keys to choose for the Triangle button. Choose the one you want.

9.Validate your choice

10.Restart from step 4 for each buttons.

11.Don’t forget to save often !

Note on D-Pad : editing this one is a little different. But I’m sure you will understand the window. You may want to enable “Diagonals ON” for this widget.

EXPERT FEATURE

You can edit this widget to enable/disable buttons and options by default on start. Go to the bottom of the edit window of this widget. You’ll find a a combo widget. Open it and tick the buttons and options you want when your game is launch. TICK ONLY widget tagged with the #START word (they are all at the top).

MORE DETAILS ON HOW TO DO THAT

1.Open it and scroll down to the bottom. Then click on the Combo widget

2.Choose the buttons you want to be enbaled by default when launching the game. On the screenshot, you can see I activated Square button and Triangle Button by default. Validate your choices, save the layout.

DOUBLE TAP
Select the double tap layer. Select the widget you want to edit (double left or double right). And map a key you want to trigger when double tap on the appropriate dpad. I’m using this in game where the character can sprint left or right. I didn’t add a double tap for up and down atm. Note: Double tap feature need to be set to ON in the Options menu.

NOTE ON MULTI BUTTON TOUCH
I configure buttons so you can press multiples buttons with one finger: when you touch a button, it will be pressed even if your finger leave the button zone. So you can reach other buttons. This will work only if don’t stop to touch the screen. If you stop to touch the screen, all buttons currently down will be unpress (up). As an example, if you want to press A (to run) and then B (to jump) but without unpressing A (to do a run+jump), you just need to press A and move your finger on B, without leaving the screen. Is it clear ?

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MORE SCREENSHOTS

Full !

Simple !

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CREDITS
This .mgc is free of charge. You can use it, edit and repost it for a specific game without any problem. Don’t need to ask me. Just do it. A credit will be appreciate but it’s not need at all :).

VERSION HISTORY
v1.1
.change Options menu so true graphics buttons are used instead of letters
.remove some useless images in the .mgc file
v1.0
.initial release

DOWNLOAD
Default button graphics:
Download the layout

Other graphics:
.colored: Screenshot | Cover
.colorfull: Screenshot | Cover
.playstationary: Screenshot | Cover
Download other graphics

How to create your own graphics:
. open the .mcg file with a software like winrar
. open \images folder
. replace the images you want, but be sure to keep the same name
. you now own the .mgc layout with your custom graphics !