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Was looking into this the other day with Ian, only to find that there is no native support within Flash for alternate input devices beyond the mouse and keyboard. That really is silly. At this point, with as sophisticated as Flash has become (it can use your dang GPU for hardware rendering!), it certainly seems as we should be able to accept different inputs.

Anyway, a pretty pleasant work-around for Windows users is this nifty free program called JoyToKey, which does exactly what the name implies. It converts your gamepad input signals into keyboard presses. Voila, gamepad support in your Flash games!

Btw, someone started a campaign for gamepad support within Flash late in 2008….doesn’t seem to have won Adobe over at this point, but it’s worth mentioning. And also where I found out about JoyToKey (in the comments).

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