Sonic Generations Controller Not Working

  1. Sonic Generations Controller Not Working On Computer

In this tutorial you will find steps to make x360ce work with Sonic Generations. This method also works with any game – just do the same easy steps, no special skills needed to make any controller work as an Xbox 360 gamepad. Emulator allows your controller (joystick, wheel, gamepad, etc.) to operate as the most common device, recognized by most of the games without any additional settings and workarounds.

Not sure if this is exactly what you're asking about, but Generations doesn't allow you to configure controllers. You can only use it as it's laid out, unless you use a program to assign keyboard input to controller input, since you can configure the keyboard. Well, that's the thing. My layout is blank, and won't even let me reset it to default. I'm not OP but I'm having trouble with this too. I used the x360ce and it seems like it worked but the game still doesn't recognize the controller. I don't know if I was using it wrong or what but I can't get it to work. I have a Logitech Gamepad F310 if it matters. You need to open Keyboard.cfg and change 'Player InputWay' to 1.

1. The first step is to download x360ce zip file from official site. You have to select 32 or 64 bit version (same as the version of Sonic Generations you use). If you don’t know the version of your game or download wrong one accidentally, you will be notified later and have a chance to use another version.

2. Now we have to find the installation folder of your game. You can easily do this by looking into game shortcut settings or finding the game in your Steam library list. If you choose the Steam variant, right click the game name and select “Properties”.

3. Navigate to “Local files” tab and press “Browse local files...” button.

4. Now you need to find the folder with Sonic Generations executable. In the example picture they are located in Binaries / Retail subfolder. You need to extract downloaded x360ce ZIP file to folder with your game executable file.

5. Click on x360ce exe file with the right mouse button and select “Run as administrator” from dropdown menu.

6. You will see window with warning – “xinput 1_3.dll was not found. This file is required for emulator to function properly.” Don’t worry, just click “Create” button to make them appear.

7. When x360ce will inform you that new device was detected, use automatic search for settings from internet – just hit “Next” button.

8. Click “Finish”, when installation completed.

9. Hit the “Auto” button to make all settings set to defaults. Confirm changes by clicking “Yes” in popup window. All the buttons will be filled automatically.

10. Now just hit “Save” button to make all your settings saved. You can also change buttons assignment before hitting “Save”, if you like.

Now you can normally launch Sonic Generations and use your controller with x360ce emulator – it will be starting automatically with each game launch.

Sonic Riders
Developers
Publishers
Engines
Sega NN Graphics Library[1]
Release dates
WindowsNovember 17, 2006
Reception
IGDB70
Taxonomy
ModesSingleplayer, Multiplayer
PacingReal-time
PerspectivesThird-person
ControlsDirect control
GenresRacing
VehiclesHovercraft, Motorcycle
Art stylesAnime, Cartoon
ThemesFantasy
SeriesSonic the Hedgehog
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Sonic CD (1996)1996
Sonic's Schoolhouse1996
Sonic 3D Blast1997
Sonic & Knuckles Collection1997
Sonic R (1998)1998
Sonic R (2004)2004
Sonic Adventure (series)
Sonic Heroes2004
Sonic Mega Collection Plus2006
Sonic Riders2006
Sonic Racing (series)
Sonic 3D Blast (2010)2010
Sonic the Hedgehog2010
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine2010
Sonic Spinball2010
Sonic the Hedgehog 22011
Sonic 3 & Knuckles2011
Sonic Generations2011
Sonic CD (2012)2012
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I2012
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II2012
Sonic Dash2014
Sonic Lost World2015
Sonic Mania2017
Sonic Forces2017
  • 2Game data
  • 3Video
  • 5Audio
  • 6Network
  • 7Issues fixed
  • 8Other information

Warnings

SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected versions).

Key points

No in-game quit option. Must use Alt+F4 to quit.
3-4 player modes from the console versions are absent on the PC version and can only be played with up to 2 players.
Unfavorable to the console versions in many ways, including missing graphical elements (such as the heat wave effect in Egg Factory), characters' pupils being stationary in Story Mode cutscenes, FMV playback occasionally being choppy, and several in-game lines being excluded.

Availability[edit]

SourceDRMNotesKeysOS
Retail SafeDisc v4 DRM[Note 1].
Retail Available in the 'Sonic PC Collection' bundle.
SafeDisc retail DRM no longer functions properly on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
This game is not available digitally.

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

SystemLocation
Windows <path-to-game>SaveConfig.ini[Note 2]

Save game data location[edit]

SystemLocation
Windows <path-to-game>SaveGame Data##save.dat[Note 2]

Video[edit]

External graphics and sound settings
Graphics featureStateWSGFNotes
Widescreen resolution Use Sonic Riders HD Resolution Patch or WSGF Widescreen Patch (has aspect ratio adjustments)
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen Use Sonic Riders HD Resolution Patch or WSGF 21:9 Patch (has aspect ratio adjustments)
4K Ultra HD Use Sonic Riders HD Resolution Patch or WSGF Widescreen Patch (has aspect ratio adjustments)
Field of view (FOV)See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowedSee the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)Toggleable on/off.
Vertical sync (Vsync)See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPSOptional 30, 15, and 10 FPS caps available.
120+ FPSCapped at 60 FPS.

Field of view (FOV)[edit]

Change FOV with Cheat Engine[citation needed]
  1. Download and install Cheat Engine.
  2. Download the WSGF attachment.
  3. Use the included Cheat Table file to adjust the FOV values.
Change FOV with hex edit[citation needed]
  1. Open d3dx9_25.dll with a hex editor such as HxD.
  2. Go to offset 0x3F9A9.
  3. Replace bytes 00 00 80 BF with bytes representing your float value multiplier at a negative value (default multiplier is -1.0). Remember to invert the byte order to Little Endian.

Notes

Use this online float to hex converter.
If the code is replaced with the command to jump to allow the extending of vertical fov at 0x3F9A9, replace bytes 00 00 80 3F at 0x1F8F3A with bytes representing your float value multiplier in a positive value (default multiplier here is 1.0).
FOV multiplier values lower than -0.75 or 0.75 will also cause blue clipping on geometry.

Input[edit]

External gamepad settings
Keyboard and mouseStateNotes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller supportLauncher only works with Keyboard & Mouse.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
Sonic
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration
DualShock 4 controllersLacks native support. Use DS4Windows as a workaround.
DualShock button prompts
Light bar support
Connection modesunknown
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedbackDespite a vibration option being available in the Options menu, it does not seem to work when enabled.
Simultaneous controller+KB/M
  • External keyboard rebinding

Audio[edit]

Audio featureStateNotes
Separate volume controlsSliders for BGM and SE/VOICE available in the external launcher.
Surround soundSupports up to 7.1.[4]
SubtitlesLimited to cutscenes in Story Mode only; cannot be disabled. Voiced dialogue during races, such as pre and post-race lines and play-by-play commentary, are not subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

In-game text language settings
LanguageUIAudioSubNotes
English
Japanese
SpanishCastilian.
French
German
Italian

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

TypeNativePlayersNotes
Local play2 Versus
The PC version supports 4 player gameplay like the console versions without issues. However, the developers decided to disallow 4 players in the game's menu code and did not implement reading of inputs for players 3 and 4 (their input data is still stored). Through hacking, playing 4 players is possible.[5]
LAN play
Online play
Asynchronous multiplayer

Issues fixed[edit]

Occasional freezes during the loading screen[edit]

Update the d3dx9_25.dll file[citation needed]
  1. Go to %Windir%system32.
  2. Copy the latest d3dx9_.dll file, which happens to be d3dx9_43.dll, to the game directory.
  3. Delete the original d3dx9_25.dll from the game directory.
  4. Rename d3dx9_43.dll to d3dx9_25.dll.

Other information[edit]

API[edit]

Technical specsSupportedNotes
Direct3D9.0c

System requirements[edit]

Windows
MinimumRecommended
Operating system (OS)2000, XP
Processor (CPU)Intel Pentium III or AMD equivalent running at 1.0 GHz or higher Intel Pentium 4 running at 1.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)128 MB256 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)3 GB
Video card (GPU)Direct3D compatible video card
64 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
OtherDirectSound-compatible sound card, Windows compatible keyboard and mouse
Windows 98SE and ME also launch the game fine, but are not officially supported.

Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRMdoes not work on Windows 10[2] and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[3]
  2. 2.02.1When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

Sonic Generations Controller Not Working On Computer

  1. Verified by User:Sewer56lol on 2019-11-03
    Confirmed via checking file formats and embedded strings in executable: nn Ver 1.18.43 Build:Sep 14 2006 15:08:29, SEGA NN Library for Direct G1.1
  2. Not Loading in Windows 10; this will break thousands of - Microsoft Community - last accessed on 2017-01-16
  3. Microsoft - MS15-097: Description of the security update for the graphics component in Windows: September 8, 2015 - last accessed on 2018-02-16
  4. Verified by User:MasterBlaster on 2020-05-09
    Tested in 7.1 using Orban Loudness Meter in conjunction with Razer Surround.
  5. Verified by User:Sewer56lol on 2019-11-03
    I will make a patch for this someday. [https://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?threads/sonic-riders-pc-hacking-info.28359/#post-919475 Relevant forum post.)