i've been getting more into the new ms flight simulator 2024 career mode on xbox cloud, so i bought a logitech joystick for it. but it turned out that the joystick doesn't have drivers for macos and doesn't show up as a "standard" game controller, which is what's required for xbox cloud in the browser.

tried many third party apps and extension but nothing worked. tried to write a macos driver for it but hit a wall with creating a virtual gamepad on the os level.

after some digging, i noticed that chrome gets raw input from the joystick, so i wrote some js code in a bookmark that emulates a standard gamepad by overriding the browser getGamepads function and returning an emulated gamepad with remapped buttons and axes from the joystick. and now it works!

the in-flight testing process to remap and tune the inputs was fun  🤓

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Haha. Yeah it was very satisfying. Still is every time I press that bookmark after I run the game.

I saw these two images and totally thought you were writing code using a joystick lol 😂 Nothing is more satisfying than solving your own problems with code!!

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bro im in love with the cessna 172 skyhawk!!