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PocketPad v0.6
Two sticks, presets, and a pile of input fixes. Grab both files below —
PocketPad-Setup.exe for the PC, PocketPad.apk for the phone.
3D games work now
The right stick was missing, and in any 3D game the right stick is the
camera — so you could walk but never look. Minecraft, Assassin's Creed, Metal
Gear Solid, Call of Duty and Portal 2 were all unplayable for that one reason.
- Right stick — real analog look/aim, on its own touch capture so you can
move and look at the same time. - Left stick and the d-pad now coexist instead of one replacing the other,
so a hotbar is reachable while you walk. - L3 / R3 for sprint and melee (hidden by default — switch them on in the
layout editor).
Four layout presets
A ready-made pad per kind of game, from Settings → Layout presets or the
top of the layout editor:
| Layout 1 | D-pad and buttons only, both larger — fighting games |
| Layout 2 | Adds both sticks — the all-rounder |
| Layout 3 | Left stick, no look stick, bigger face buttons |
| Layout 4 | Everything, stick clicks included |
Every control is yours
Drag, resize and hide any of the twelve controls. Tap one to select it, or
step through them with the ‹ › arrows. A STICK ON/OFF chip on the pad
itself toggles the look stick mid-game without leaving what you are playing.
Fixes
- Presses no longer go missing. Two or three buttons at once, or quick
taps in sequence, could light up on the phone and never reach the PC — the
sender sampled state every 8 ms and a press that began and ended inside one
gap was never transmitted. - Every button vibrates, not just the d-pad.
- Tapping the trackpad clicks. It never did: the press and release landed
between two samples, so the click was dropped every time. Tap anywhere on
the pad surface now — no trip to the LEFT CLICK button. - The d-pad lights only the direction you press rather than both ends of
an axis. - Layout editor drags actually move things.
Heads-up: the PC app now asks for administrator
Say yes to the prompt. Mouse mode moves the real Windows pointer, and
Windows blocks an ordinary program from doing that whenever a window running
as administrator has focus — which is what you hit the moment you minimise
PocketPad and something else comes forward. The gamepad half never needed it;
only the pointer does.
Your saved layout resets once on upgrade — the arrangement changed too much
to carry across. Everything after this update installs in place and keeps it.