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Why Is My Controller Detected Under A Completely Different Name?
It identifies as an Xbox 360 pad on purpose, so games recognise it without a driver. That is normal. The wrong button positions are a firmware…
Vikram SinghVerified Gamepad Tester team member
Open Source Contributor And Device ID Specialist at Gamepad Tester
Identifies controllers by vendor ID, including the clones that pretend to be something else.
Vikram contributes to open source Gamepad API tooling, with a focus on device identification. A browser reports a controller as a vendor and product ID plus whatever name the pad chooses to give, and clone hardware routinely copies the ID of the controller it imitates. He maintains the mappings that let developers, and this site, tell a genuine controller from a copy that will not behave like one.
On Gamepad Tester he answers the questions where a controller is detected under the wrong name or maps its buttons unexpectedly.
- Experience
- 9+ years
- Hands-On
- Maintains open source controller ID mappings used to tell genuine hardware from clones.
- Answers On Gamepad Tester
- 2
What Vikram Works On
Vendor and product IDscontroller fingerprintingclone hardware detectionopen source gamepad mappings
Tests Vikram Looks After
Gamepad TesterLive test of every button, stick, trigger and axis on any controllerFree · Open tool Button TestCheck each button for response, double presses and dead inputsFree · Open tool
Questions Answered By Vikram
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Windows Sees My Controller But It Sends No Input At All, Every Button Is Dead
Enumerating correctly with all inputs at zero usually means the pad is in an analog or digital mode the host is not reading, or it is a clone…
The Team Behind These Answers
Calder WrightFront-End Web Architect And Gamepad API Lead
Elena RostovaHardware Diagnostics Engineer
Garrett LindsayHardware Reviewer And Input Performance Specialist
Venom’s Tech (Abhishek)Peripheral Reviewer And Tech Journalist
Chloe HendersonHall Effect And Thumbstick Analyst
Thiago AlvesHardware Repair Educator
Devon MillerLow Latency And Input Timing Engineer
Liam DaviesBluetooth And Wireless Test EngineerEach answer is written by the specialist who owns that part of the hardware, tested on a real controller, and checked by a second team member. How we verify answers