Joystick Question

[Buttersexe]

Would it be possible for me to set up a mapping where the horzionatal zones on my joystick become a and d instead of controller inputs? basically meaning the front of the joystick still acts as as a controller but the sides become keypresses

Igonore the bad photoshop but something like this

[1ncorrect]

You can manually assign A and D to the horizontal movement of the stick, and leave the vertical ones unchanged.

However, in this case, you will lose the full-fledged analogy of the diagonal movement of the stick.

To compensate a bit for this loss, you can go to Advanced stick settings, turn on the Use 8 digital directions option and manually assign a diagonal stick deflection combo to the diagonals.
In this picture, there are stick deflection symbols for the combo.