I completely get the whole "Build it around keyboards" mentality, but blocking on an arcade stick will beat a keyboard any day of the week. I've plugged in two different arcade sticks and I'm getting nothing. I'm hoping this just isn't implemented yet because that's super lame.

This is really hampering my enjoyment of the game. What is the best mapping program out there? I've never tinkered with that stuff before.

It's coming, it seems.

@viciousbearmauling: JoyToKey will probably solve this for you.

What kind of sticks are they? Anything i've plugged in works. Joy to key is a good alternative if nothing else works.

Seems like any 360 stick should at least sort of work, it detected my 360 gamepad just fine. But yeah, Jason was having some trouble and used joy2key to map it all.

I understand they are a small team, but wouldn't the easiest semi-solution be to just add basic Xinput support and allow remapping? Most fight sticks people have are for the 360 it seems.

Not working on my PS3 stick either. So I'm using a 360 controller instead. It works pretty well on a gamepad: Normals on X, A, and B; Specials on Y, RB, and RT.

Yeah, got a ps3 madcatz fight stick and it doesn't work at all, even joytokey can't make it work. Honestly, though this game feels great on keyboard after playing for about an hour and a half just now.

360 stick works. A PS3/PC stick does not work because of the way the directional inputs on the joystick register.

Can't get Joy2Key or Xpadder to work which is a shame. I can "play" with a keyboard but it's relearning a whole system.

I managed to get Xpadder to work just fine, using a Qanba Q2 for the PS3

Did you check it both in ps3 and ps4 mode?

@woodles: Do you run joytokey in administrator mode? That worked for me (Hori V3 stick).

@dstopia: same

I've been using joytokey with my Hori HRAPv4 (PS3/4) and that's been OK so far. Like @gundogan said, make sure you run it in administrator mode.

For those of you trying to use JoyToKey, make sure you run it as an administrator to get it working with RT.

I got my old PS3 Madcatz TE stick working through Joytokey. What a fantastic little program. I was even able to do Street Fighter style throwing with this thing. I don't think that's even possible from within Rising Thunder.

Cool. For some reason I could only get my HRAP4Kai to work in PS3 mode.