Spin Rhythm XD Guide

How to Play with PS3 DJ Hero Controller for Spin Rhythm XD

How to Play with PS3 DJ Hero Controller

Instructions

DJ Hero Controller is not the best controller for this game but here’s how:

Step 1. Installing driver

For me controller is recognized as “Guitar Hero 5 for PlayStation 3” controller by plugging usb dongle into Windows 10 PC. not sure it’ll work on other platforms.

Step 2. Mapping wheel

SInce Spin Rhythm XD can’t handle controller’s wheel(Z-Axis rotation technically) you have to use JoyToKey for it.

Download from here:
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Remap Horizontal Stick 1 with RZ-axis and adjust analog threshold(see picture below)


and map Left/Right Stick to Mouse Movement like below:

Step 3. Mapping other buttons

Go Steam -> Settings -> Controller -> General Controller Settings.

Map all buttons in panel which located at left top part of your controller.

You don’t have to map other buttons since other buttons are just duplicates.

Step 4. Remap Game’s Control Scheme

Since this game involves a lot of clicking, using main RGB buttons makes harder to play
(it’s really hard to find buttons while spinning)

I recommend map buttons like below and play with Euphoria button(<Normal difficulties) or Triangle/Circle button(>=Hard difficulties).

Step 5. Adjust sensitivity

You can adjust sensitivity in game option and JoyToKey(while doing Step 2.). I’ve set it to maximum.

Tips

Get used for stopping wheel manually on spinning notes. because wheel will keep spinning even long note is finished so you’ll going to miss continuing notes.

To Developers

I think spinning can be improved by supporting Z-Axis rotating natively. but seems Steam’s controller API doesn’t support it so I’m not sure it’s possible to be done.

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