This is a mental note for myself and hope that it benefits someone else...
If you have a application (or primarily a game) that only works with the Microsoft Xbox controller device type, and not HID, this open source project might help you... x360ce
https://github.com/x360ce/x360ce
The user interface isn't 'great' but it is deep to the extent if you can make an axis map to one of the six analog axis on the 360 controller.
It was mentioned in another thread, but I wanted to make a newer thread (again, for my memory if nothing else)
Xbox controller emulation
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