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WinStadia

Use Google Stadia controllers as Xbox controllers on Windows, over USB and Bluetooth.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 59%) · 0 views

Niche: game controller mapping tools · 47 launches, 0 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • controller
  • gamepad
  • stadia
  • stadia-controller

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Could you build this?

Partial Mapping HID controller inputs to virtual XInput devices requires integrating low-level Windows driver frameworks like ViGEmBus.

What it would actually take: Uses C++ or C# to read raw HID reports from the Stadia controller via USB/Bluetooth (using WinUSB or HidLibrary) and feeds transformed stick/button states into the ViGEmBus virtual Xbox 360 controller kernel driver. Managing driver installations, HID feature reports, and low-latency input polling requires systems and driver integration knowledge.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 357 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #181 of 358 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.

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