ps or xbox button to close games in fullscreen mode?

[joseviniciusrb]

good night
I installed the program yesterday and I've been looking for some way to close the games just with the controller, I was using the steam big picture before, but I found the most complete playnite, on steam when I want to leave a game I just press the ps or xbox button and opens a panel with several options one of them is to close the game, in playnite it doesn't happen, I press the xbox or ps button nothing happens, my alternative is to connect a keyboard and press the esc key to close the game, however my project is turn the pc into a console, is there any way to close the games using only one controller without the need for a keyboard? if so, how do i do it? 
thanks

[theOG123]

I use Controller Companion and set the guide button to be Esc or Alt+F4 depending on the game which works perfectly.

[joseviniciusrb]

man, I used the configuration of the steam controller and it works, but I keep thinking about adding a menu, or panel to be able to facilitate it, because some keys in some games that work as a way to disrupt the gameplay for example the alt, esc, enter.

[Admiralbison]

I use Controller Companion and set the guide button to be Esc or Alt+F4 depending on the game which works perfectly.

have you come across any conflicts?

like would it conflict when running xinput control in emulation games, or just assigning the home/guide button by itself is enough to close a running emulation game?

Thought I would ask before I purchase the app.

Also I am a rare PC gamer that doesn't use Steam.

[CriticalComposer]

I use reWASD for this kind of stuff -- it's like Controller Companion but quite a bit more powerful and supports practically every modern controller and device (even mouse and keyboard). It also allows passing through of the controllers buttons to the game so titles with native support for a controller will still work just fine. You can even use a combination of buttons, such as Guide+Start+Select, for the Alt+F4 command ensuring that you never accidentally quit out of a game.

[Admiralbison]

I use reWASD for this kind of stuff -- it's like Controller Companion but quite a bit more powerful and supports practically every modern controller and device (even mouse and keyboard). It also allows passing through of the controllers buttons to the game so titles with native support for a controller will still work just fine. You can even use a combination of buttons, such as Guide+Start+Select, for the Alt+F4 command ensuring that you never accidentally quit out of a game.

oh yeah, I've heard of reWASD and it looks fairly robust enough to support games that don't naturally use controllers.
I just want to make sure these kind of applications don't come into conflict with the native controller support on some games or applications.

I've just tested out controller companion and I don't know if it was just my imagination, but navigating through Playnite in fullscreen felt laggy so I went and cleared all the assigned keys on the controller in CC except the guide button (alt+F4) and everything felt normal.

So far CC guide button (alt+F4) works like a charm closing full screen running emulators. I did get the additional prompt of "are you sure you want to close this application - yes or no" on one emulator so far so I had to assign the a key (Enter) as an extra step.

would be nice to have a little OSD menu to take over things like those prompts, full screen switching, re-maximize/minimize, reset.

I will test out reWASD and see what it can do.

[Kaede Monthmore]

My workaround for this: i use X360 Controller as Player 1, use X360 Button Remapper with Pause/Break button set, and put Playnite to open an AutoHotKey script, mapping Pause/Break to kill the current running app. If the app is closed, it kills all AHK scripts running, preventing me to accidentally kills Playnite.

I prefer this method because this only use 1500kb of memory, maintaining original Playnite concept: fast and lightweight.

[Leon12345]

I recommend AntiMicro. Very lightweight, has all options you ever gonna need for gamepad, and it's free. It lets you bind mouse, keyboard and other functions to gamepad and set profiles (sets) for different purposes, that you can switch between with one gamepad button. I have 3 sets - clear (no buttons mapped except the one to change sets, so it will use game mapping), desktop (to control entire desktop with pad as it was mouse and and keyboard functions like winkey+tab, alt+f4, winkey+h for dictator, left click, right click, enter, arrow keys), and 3rd set for media functions like vol up/down etc. I have start button mapped to switch sets - on set1, it changes to set2, on set2 it changes to set3, on set3 it changes to set1. Its all really easy to set. The only thing it's missing is graphical indication to which set you changed, but I made it work by creating 3 .bat files for each profile that I assigned (in AntiMicro itself) to execute on start button press, that display text for 1 sec, like that

@ECHO OFF
:BEGIN
ECHO Gamepad set changed to "DESKTOP"
timeout 1 >nul
cls
:END

https://github.com/AntiMicro/antimicro

[Gildum]

My workaround for this: i use X360 Controller as Player 1, use X360 Button Remapper with Pause/Break button set, and put Playnite to open an AutoHotKey script, mapping Pause/Break to kill the current running app. If the app is closed, it kills all AHK scripts running, preventing me to accidentally kills Playnite.

I prefer this method because this only use 1500kb of memory, maintaining original Playnite concept: fast and lightweight.

Nice solution, this works great! I edited the ahk script so that only a double-click of the xbox guide button exits games, this prevents closing games by accident:

Pause::
    If (A_ThisHotkey = A_PriorHotkey and A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 250)
        Send !{F4}
        Sleep 50
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