Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

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Hello, I play Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker on my Macbook Pro (it works great btw, aside from minor graphical glitches) and I'm wondering if the gamepad function is supported for OS X version of PPSSPP.

In game the analog stick is used to move. When it's pushed fully your character will run, and enemies can hear your footsteps that way. But if you push it a little bit, you walk, and enemies can't hear you sneaking around. Obviously with a keyboard this is impossible, because there is no way to do that, so I need to use a gamepad.

I plugged in my PS3 controller via USB (Bluetooth is a bit of a hassle) and go to controller map, but it doesn't seem to respond when I try to bind a button to something. I checked in a different emulator, and it says the controller's working fine. Am I missing a setting somewhere, is there something I still need to set up, or what? Nothing seems to be coming up on Google.
Please help me, thanks.

Some side notes I forgot to put:
-Running OS X 10.9.2 (Maverick)
-I also have Xbox 360 and Wii controllers lying around, though I never set them up before, just the PS3 controller, I prefer to use that one.

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i am using ppsspp v0.9.6-387-g5c41dd6

i reached peacewalker battle 2. i knocked her down to 3 bars of health and i was able to stop all the nuclear launches

then she entered her final nuclear launch phase. i hit her with 8 rockets and i couldnt get her to stop the launch. i thought i was doing something wrong. i did search online and i found this link:-
github.com/hrydgard/ppsspp/issues/2845 (put https:// in the beginning of link)
it seems the game itself is glitchy because you she stays stuck on 2 bars of health so u cant make her stop the launch

how do i pass this part? on which ppsspp version is this part passable?

i can also memory edit the game to pass that part. it said so in the link but i didn't understand how. can anyone plz tell me which program shall i get for the editing, which file i edit and which values i change?

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