X360ce 3.2.8.77 ^new^
Released around , version 3.2.8.77 arrived during a transition period for PC gaming APIs. While Microsoft's XInput had become the industry standard, many players still owned high-quality legacy hardware (e.g., Logitech wheels, PS2/PS3 controllers via adapters) that used the DirectInput API.
Even though the developers were working on v4, the community kept going back to v3.2.8.77 because it just worked. It became the "Old Faithful" of the emulator scene. If a game was made in the DirectX 9/10/11 era, 3.2.8.77 was almost guaranteed to work where newer versions might crash. X360ce 3.2.8.77