Controller Emulator blocks controller input, even when closed!

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#1

Roblox’s Controller Emulator plugin forcibly takes up the slot of Gamepad1, even when closed and an actual gamepad connected. This means any code that specifically listens for input from the first gamepad slot will be completely ignored unless done with the Controller Emulator. This includes roblox’s own character controller.

As I’m sure you can imagine this is quite frustrating to deal with, as it means my character is completely locked in place anytime I playtest with a controller. The only workaround I’ve found so far is to

  • Enable the Controller Emulator
  • Perform any input with the emulated controller
  • Close the Controller Emulator

This can also be seen happening in this post

Expected behavior

I expect the controller emulator to not exist (or at least as much as possible) while the widget is closed.

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#2

Thanks for reporting this. I’d been meaning to do so but had forgotten.

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#3

This was reported very recently, and Roblox has an internal system for getting bug reports to the right team/people. I was going to @ staff about this issue, but I feel it will be addressed rather quickly by the right people.

Here’s some related things to this bug report to connect things together:

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#4

Hi there! We’ve just fixed this bug, and we’d love to hear if everything is working smoothly for you now. Please let us know if you run into any issues. Thanks so much!

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