Text in italic format are just notes to help you understand what you are doing and are unimportant

Download AutoHotKey (AHK). This is a software that enables you to write hotkey scripts, such as replacing buttons and combining them under a single button.
You can download the software from:
https://autohotkey.com/download/
http://ahkscript.org/
My current version is downloaded from the first link. Version number: 1.1.24.04
UPDATE 2017.03.26.: There is a v2 version of AHK now that changed in functionality, and doesn't have support for some older scripts. I did not test this version, however you should be fin with anything 1.x .

Those of you who are more advanced in coding than I am may be able to write macros to make a 360 motion a single key, but I ask you from the depths of my heart, if you have that knowledge, don't use this to create cheats like that, for the sake of sportmanship and fair play, that SFV is all about. This guide exists to bring that fair play BACK since CAPCOM took it away from us, keyboard players.

Launch AHK after installation. A green H icon is supposed to appear on the bottom right of your screen, among other running software such as Steam. Right click on it.


This is the menu you are seeing right now. My icon is red only because I paused the script running, because our script we'll use changes these buttons as long as the script and SFV is running at the same time.. Choose edit script.

An empty notepad will open up. Copy and paste the entire code below:







Obviously, you do not need to pause your script like I did here, only my SFV is running while I'm writing this and I needed my buttons back to write this guide :).

Close the notepad. You will get a popup warning message that you did not save your modifications, choose that you want to save now.
Launch Street Fighter V after you saved and loaded in the code (reload option in the previously shown screenshot). You are done!

The code above will resault in the following controls:

• Movement: WASD (unchanged)
  
• Punches: J K L (light / medium / heavy, respectively)
  
• Kicks: U I O (light, medium, heavy, respectively)
  
• Dual buttons: E (throw), R (V skill), SPACE (V trigger)
  
  
  

Anytime before, during or after the 6 steps above, make sure you set back the ingame controls to default! You can do this in MainMenu > Battle Settings > Controls > Default Controls . Reasons explained below.

I'm guessing many of you are not planning to use my layout, so here is how to customize the script above to get your buttons where you'd like:

The first character in every " x::y" format, x in this case, is the button you are replacing the second character with, in this case, "y". To put it more simple, when you press X, your operating system will recognize as if you pushed te Y button.

• All you need to do, is to change the first character in the script to the button you want to use instead of the second one.
  
• The second buttons in the code are all the default buttons SFV uses, to make your job easier.

You can do this in the game: MainMenu > Battle Settings > Controller > Default Controls


As you can see, the default layout you just set in Battle Settings > Controller (if you did not, do it now!), are the buttons the game supports: G is your default light punch, H is your default medium punch, and so on. The script's lines such as

• ----light punch----
  
• ===================

are not doing anything in your program, it's just there to make it easier for you to identify which button you are changing so you don't have to alt tab out all the time to see what controller button G is in the Controller menu. It serves only formatting purpose, you can delete them from your script if you want to clear up your code.

This just a part of the whole script above and you don't need it separately, just added it here so you don't need to scroll back up while you are reading this.
EXAMPLE:

If you change the code above to
u::g - then U button will be your light punch
q::k - then Q button will be your medium punch
1::j - then 1 button will be your hard punch
G,K,J are the default buttons the game uses.
If you did not change the control layout back to default before, your buttons will behave differently!

Dual buttons are the part that did not work for me for a long time and honestly, I'm not exactly sure if there is a line in there that isn't useful for anything, but hey I got it working, so I'm not altering the guide and just write down exactly as it is, you can't do any harm with it.

This just a part of the whole script above and you don't need it separately, just added it here so you don't need to scroll back up while you are reading this.
EXAMPLE:
Change E (my throw button) to whatever you want in the first line and in the KeyWait line. The same applies to V-Skill and V-Trigger.

How this works, for those interested: this is working only when you want to use the button, and does not alter your controls set in the Battle Options menu. The point is to bypass the stupid button limit (8 buttons) the PC port allows, and set no buttons at all for throw, vskill, vtrigger, and make a new button in AHK, outside the game, that acts the same. This is achieved by telling AHK to use 2 buttons when you push a 3rd, different button, and forget this function when you let the button go: this preserves the functionality of your light punch and light kick, but also allows you to have a throw button that does not interfere with the other two (this is another reason we use default controls, because by default throw, V-Skill, V-Trigger, have no buttons set at all).

Anytime you modify the script, close notepad and save the modifications, you need to RELOAD THE SCRIPT to make it actually apply. You can do this in the rightclick menu you can see on the screenshot above.

Also, these changes your buttons everywhere in windows, as long as both SFV and the script are running simultaniously. You can pause the script in the same right click menu to have your original buttons back (for example, if you want to chat with a friend in between matches), then unpause it to get your desired controls back.

The scipt is based on someone else's work who tried to help me out with it long, long time ago, but since the dual buttons were not working for some reason, I gave up after trying to fix it for a long time. This is my first and only attempt to write a script / program code for anything other than modifying a few lines in an existing cfg file, hence the long delay after giving up on SFV, until now I came back, did some research and fixed it up finally, and cleaned up the script lines too.

I'm deeply sorry I cannot mention your name, whoever helped me out, but it was so long ago I simply cannot remember or find you / your post anymore. I don't want to take credit for the work you did (although I modified it and want to help people out, this is why I wrote this guide), just show up and you'll be added!