LegoToypad

A controller-driven companion app for LEGO Dimensions emulation. It emulates the Toypad and every tag - 75 characters and 240 vehicles across all 30 franchises - and sends them straight to the emulator. No mouse, no physical toy needed.

Works with any of the emulator builds below that have the local Toypad listener enabled. Everything (tags, art, sounds) is baked into LegoToypad.exe - there are no loose files to manage.

Thanks to the LEGO Dimensions Discord for support!

Screenshots

Custom toypad emulator builds

LegoToypad needs an emulator build with the Toypad listener enabled. Grab the one for your emulator:

Emulator	Build
Cemu	Cemu-2.6-Remote-Toypad-Build
RPCS3	RPCS3-Seamless-Toypad-Build
shadPS4	shadPS4-Seamless-Toypad-Build
Xenia	Xenia-Seamless-Toypad-Build

Features

• Full tag library built in: all 30 franchises, 75 characters, 240 vehicles
• Controller-first UI, no mouse needed - or drive it entirely from the keyboard
• True Toypad layout: 7 pad slots (3/1/3), with Load / Move / Clear per slot
• Toypad sneak peek: hold a button to see the pads over the game without pausing it
• Abilities browser: browse every ability, and filter by Common, Uncommon, Exclusive, Vehicular or One-Timed
• Writable vehicle tags: in-game vehicle upgrades are saved to disk and loaded back next time
• Fast loading: choose whether loading a tag closes the picker or leaves it open
• Live Toypad LEDs mirrored from the emulator in real time (off by default)
• Swappable pad art (skins)
• Web remote: control the pads from your phone over LAN
• Xbox, PlayStation and Switch controllers supported, with matching button icons
• Fully configurable from an in-app Settings screen

Using the app

1. Launch the exe - it sits in the tray until you toggle it (default: Ctrl+L, so it works with no controller plugged in).
2. Pick a pad, then Load a franchise/character, Move it, or Clear it.

Toypad sneak peek

Hold LT (rebindable) while playing and the seven pads fade in over the game - the two side sections in the bottom corners, the center pad up top, so the middle of the screen stays clear. Release and they fade away.

Unlike opening the picker, the peek never takes focus and never takes the controller: the HUD window is click-through and is never activated, so the game keeps running and the held button still reaches it. It is the same pad state the picker shows, live - loads, moves, clears and mirrored Toypad LEDs all appear on it the moment they happen.

Set it to Off / Small / Medium / Large from Settings -> Sneak peek, and rebind the hold button from Settings -> Button - Sneak peek (hold). It needs the emulator running in windowed or borderless mode; a true exclusive-fullscreen window will cover it.

Controls

Input	Action
D-pad / stick	Move selection
A / Enter	Confirm
B / Escape	Back
Y / S	Settings
X / M	Pick up the focused pad's figure to move it
RB / L	Load a figure onto the focused pad
LB / C	Clear the focused pad
RB / LB	Cycle the franchise sort (world grid / browse rosters)
LT (hold)	Sneak peek: show the pads over the game

Every binding except the D-pad can be rebound from Settings.

Keyboard controls

The whole picker is usable with just a keyboard - no controller required. Open Settings -> Keyboard layout for a visual diagram of every key.

Key	Action
Ctrl + L	Show / hide the picker (global toggle, always active)
Arrow keys	Move selection
Enter	Confirm
Esc	Back
S	Settings / Favorite / Filter (same as the controller's Y)
M	Move / Organize (same as the controller's X)
Z (hold)	Show the focused figure's abilities
L	Load a figure onto the focused pad
C	Clear the focused pad
G	Toggle the LED demo
[ / ]	Previous / next franchise sort (on the world grid / browse rosters)

Ctrl+L is the default toggle and stays active even after you set a controller shortcut, so both work at once. Change the toggle from Settings -> Toggle shortcut. With no controller connected, the on-screen button hints switch to these keys automatically.

Every key in the table except the toggle can be changed under Settings -> Keyboard keys: pick a row, press the new key (Esc cancels, Backspace restores the default). A key that is already used swaps with the other action. Esc always works as Back unless you give it to another action.

Window size

Settings -> Window size shrinks the whole picker to 90/80/70/60% (handy on a small second monitor). The layout is unchanged, just smaller.

Dimensions Recompiled

When the recompiled PC port (legodimensions.exe) is running, the picker opens on the game's monitor and closing it always puts focus back into the game, so you never need the mouse to click back in. Settings -> System shows whether the game was found. Without it, everything works as before.

Setup

1. Run LegoToypad.exe.
2. On first launch it creates a LegoToypad.ini next to itself. Make sure [Listener] Port matches your emulator build's Toypad listener port (default 9191).

Build (from source)

cmake -S . -B build -A x64
cmake --build build --config Release

Output: build\Release\LegoToypad.exe

No Visual Studio? Use MinGW instead:

cmake -S . -B build -G "MinGW Makefiles"
cmake --build build --config Release

Notes

• The exe is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen will flag it on first launch. Click "More info" then "Run anyway."