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+NAME
+	libgamepad - Game controller library
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+DESCRIPTION
+	libgamepad is a C library that implements game controller
+	support. libgamepad implements not only reading input and
+	applying force feedback, but also provides controller
+	information such as layout details, canoncial button names,
+	button icons, button colours, and conformity to well known
+	controller schemes, and applies fixes such as remapping buttons
+	and axes, and removing non-existent ones, correct axes
+	information, and apply calibrations, it even lets you
+	implement userspace drivers (however input reading only) if
+	kernel drivers are missing or lacking, as long as a hidraw
+	input device is available.
+
+	Games for video gaming consoles know in advance how the
+	game controller is supposed to look for the platform it is
+	running on, but on PCs it does not have any information,
+	and can therefore not display an image of your controller,
+	tell you the names or colours, or display icons, for which
+	buttons to press. libgamepad aims to solve this, and make
+	controllers appears almost as native to PCs as to video
+	gaming consoles.