Remapping controls through external software (Controller version)

As of June 19th 2024, rebinding your controls via an external software is allowed. Moreover, you can also bind up to two inputs to one button.

The intent behind this change is to make things more fair between controller and keyboard players, e.g., regarding slide cancelling (through only needing one button press) or making flying easier. While there, right now, are no restrictions as to what input combinations are allowed when remapping, the moderators do reserve the right to reject a run if they're proven to use button combinations which are unfair or in other ways detrimental to the speedrun. It is still forbidden to automate button presses in any way, e.g., through turbo or macros.

The remainder of this guide will help you to setup the controls for you if you're using a controller.
If you're using a keyboard, check this guide instead!

Using JoyToKey

Presentation

We recommend using JoyToKey, a program which allows to simulate keyboard inputs on your controller. It's a rather light program that doesn't even need to be installed if you're using the ZIP version.
You can download it here by selecting the following option: "Download JoyToKey in ZIP format (manual installation)".
Unzip it where you want to keep it and, if possible, start JoyToKey in admin mode, especially if you're also running the game as an admin.\

Setup

First of all, launch the app while your controller is plugged in.
Then, click on File -> New to create a profile for this game.

After that, press the button on your controller that you want to assign. You'll see it being highlighted in yellow. That means this is the button you want. In this example, I'm pressing R1/RB.
Double click on it.

In the new window you can map up to 4 actions to one button. For this example we're gonna use that button to do a slide cancel to the right which is "Shift" + "D" pressed at the same time on keyboard.
We select the first input box then press "Shift". The text will change from "None" to "Shift".
Then we select the second input box and press "D". Same thing, the text will change.

Now you just press "OK" and do it for every button you want to assign.

One small detail: If you want to clear the input or map some mouse button / special buttons then right click on the input box and select the first of all these options:

Have fun running and don't forget that if you encounter any problem or if you're unsure about something please join our Discord and ask!