Once I'm done playing, I suppose there's not really a way to shut down the PC itself with the control panel, I'd still need to exit BigBox with the mouse/keyboard and close down windows. Once I have that cabinet, I suppose I just plug in the control panel to my PC, open BigBox and configure the controls from there? Once I have that, I still need to go into MAME to configure the game controls though, correct? I am going to pay for BigBox and use that on my PC that's going into the Recroom Maters Cabinet. I just played around and have my xbox one controller working to play games in MAME on my PC, but I don't have it working within launchbox quite yet. However, LB is more like the pc front end version and BB the arcade cabinet frontend version. I do it with an Xbox One and an 8Bitdo controller so it is not impossible or cumbersome. Step 4: Setup your profile (s) With a layout open (See Step 3), assign keys to your pad’s buttons by clicking the corresponding button in the profile (e.g. You can move around in Launchbox with a controller. So I would recommend that more for a cabinet. BigBox is really more of the arcade cabinet version on Launchbox. Hopefully it is coming.Yes, it is a bit easier to move around in BigBox with a controller/Arcade controls. It's just a shame these companies won't work together to give us something as basic as native controller support in Steam. The M1 chip is a beast and I can play games I could never play on Integrated Intel Graphics. If you can manage to get all planets in alignment and you're willing to put in a little effort, you can have a good experience playing 2D games on your M1 Mac thanks to this app. JoyToKey enables PC game controllers to emulate a mouse and the keyboard input, so that windows applications and web games can be controlled with joysticks. M1 Wireless Game Mapping Controller IOS/Android B1. M1 Wireless Game Mapping Controller For Iphone & Android Open Box. I wish it supported PS4 controllers, but luckily I have a Switch controller so it works for me. M1 Black Wireless Joystick Game Mapping Retractable Controller for Android, IOS. At least we have something to play 2D Steam games until Valve gets it together. Otherwise, I applaud the developer for his effort and making the app free.

From here, click on the option for Game controller settings.

So you can move around in 3D games but not look (which makes 3D games unplayable). Find the controller, and right click it to bring up the following drop-down menu.

You can map the mouse to the right joystick and it does control the mouse pointer on the desktop, but for some reason it doesn't translate to looking around once you are in the game. It worked fine on 2D games that don't require a mouse for looking around. Until Steam updates controller support, this is the best we get. This is the only app I could find that will let me use a controller with 2D Steam games on my M1 Mac on Big Sur.

Game controller mapper