In case you have any hotas or joystick that isn't the Thrustmaster T-Hotas One, you'll no doubt have noticed you can't set it up in the game. There is, however a way to set it up using an ini configuration file, but it requires you to either find someone's configuration for your joystick online, or just figure out what your buttons are and manually punch them out in the ini file, which is not the most user friendly way of doing things. I wanted to be able to set it up like you would in any game or emulator, by actually pressing buttons and moving axis and having them register. So with some help from gpt I quickly put together a little program to do it.



Download the tool [github.com]

The program is very simple. You will need to find the location of your input.ini file (usually C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment\ACE COMBAT 7\Config), that is the file you want to edit. Download, extract and run the program with your joystick connected, it should be automatically recognized, and click the "Open input.ini" button. I recommend making a backup of the original file just in case something goes wrong. Then you'll see a list of inputs, and it's pretty self explanatory, you can click the bind button for each input and press a button or move an axis in your joystick to set it up. After you're done, click the Save to input.ini button, and save it back in that folder, replacing the one that was there before. DISABLE STEAM INPUT for Ace Combat 7 (it can get in the way), and you should be good to go!