QUADPAD, a gamepad overlay with a compact design

RetroArch Additions Overlays
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This is a gamepad overlay I recently developed as an alternative to my other overlay RGPAD.

QUADPAD features extremely accurate controls, all the buttons are intelligently placed on the screen to make them easily accessible and the overlay takes up only a small portion of the screen so it never obstructs gameplay.

QUADPAD has a unique management of the analog sticks strategically placed in the middle of the D-Pad and ABXY areas. A lot of work has been spent on this to ensure that the analog sticks didn’t interfere in games that use the D-Pad (and vice versa).

You can WATCH THIS VIDEO to see all the features of QUADPAD and the various button combinations.

That’s all, hope you enjoy my work! :wink:

Features:

  • Works on most devices with a screen aspect ratio of 16:9 and up

  • Optimized buttons layout and controls

  • Support both landscape and portrait orientations

How to configure it:

(most options are already RetroArch defaults)

  • Set “Overlay Opacity” to 0.80 (recommended)

  • Set “Show Inputs on Overlay” to “Touched” (recommended)

  • Set “D-Pad Diagonal Sensitivity” to 80% (recommended)

  • Set “ABXY Overlap Sensitivity” to 50% (recommended)

  • Enable “Auto-Rotate Overlay” option

  • Enable “Auto-Scale Overlay” option

Download (v1.2):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HrOxbA8M4AItN1CtwMcW1ig78Nyy0NN9/


landscape1_quadpad
landscape1_quadpad2340Ă—1080 808 KB

landscape2_quadpad
landscape2_quadpad2340Ă—1080 1.5 MB

portrait1_quadpad
portrait1_quadpad1080Ă—2340 1.38 MB
                   
portrait2_quadpad
portrait2_quadpad1080Ă—2340 1.02 MB

Version history:

(v1.2)

  • Changed some graphics

  • Improved analog sticks sensitivity


(v1.1)

  • Fixed some issues with D-Pad and ABXY areas

(v1.0)

  • Initial release

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I made an account specifically to thank you for this. Absolutely incredible work, seriously. The idea to put joysticks inside the buttons blew my mind. And RGPAD is awesome, too! Though it looks like you got at least a portion of the attention you deserved over on that thread.

I’m going to open this in retropad-editor and make some sizing tweaks (tall version for comfort, short version for DS). Thanks again for your great work on both of these overlays!

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