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dteowner
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Joined: 21 Mar 2002
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Location: Third Hero of Erathia |
Picked up a USB Gravis gamepad many months ago. Recently, my wife picked up a collection of classic Atari arcade games. It would seem that I should be able to use the gamepad as a joystick, but somehow I can't seem to make that happen. I didn't find anything useful on the Gravis driver disk or in the post-it-note-of-a-manual.
Any clue fairies care to bean me with their magic wand? Much gratitude in advance.
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Cm
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Joined: 26 Jan 2003
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Location: Missouri USA |
I bought that ages ago as well and used it for a long time. If I remember I had to go into the windows setup for the hardware, find the gravis drivers and tell it to install them for the pad. This was in Win 98 so I can't even do it here to see if I remember it right. Anyway, as I was saying for some reason the drivers were there but didn't install themselves. Once I told it yes use that, it did. Don't hold me to this by any means, as I said it was ages ago.
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Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:17 am |
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goshuto
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In Control Panel there's an icon for "Game Controllers." Click that to check whether your gamepad is installed in there. If it isn't, you can use the "Add" button to, well, add it.
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Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:49 am |
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Val
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Joined: 18 Feb 2002
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When in doubt, visit the manufacturer's website. All sorts of useful information there.
http://www.gravis.com/support/sup_x1010.html
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Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:57 am |
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dteowner
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Joined: 21 Mar 2002
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Perhaps I need to clarify. The gamepad is installed and works fine with games that use a gamepad. I'm hoping to use the gamepad with games that are looking for a joystick. I'm guessing that I have to hook up some sort of special driver that maps the gamepad's buttons to a joystick's configuration.
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Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:02 am |
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goshuto
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The only software I could find that does that is Gravis' own Xperience (available from their site). One of its features is "Axis Control: Choose between "Joystick", "GamePad", "Keystroke", or "Mouse" mode for each joystick and proportional D-pad, and also adjust their Null Zone, Sensitivity, and Acceleration."
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Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:55 am |
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piln
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Joined: 22 May 2003
Posts: 906
Location: Leeds, UK |
afaik, PC games don't generally make a distinction between gamepads and joysticks... if you have a controller that has an X and Y axis and some buttons, you should be able to use it in any game that allows joystick and/or gamepad. However, I've found that some older (DOS, Win95) games don't work at all, or work erratically, with newer controllers in WinXP. What OS is the troublesome game(s) designed for, and what OS are you using? Also, which model gamepad are you using?
Go into Windows' games controller applet, click on Advanced and tell it that you want to use the pad for "older programs" - generally, this will make it work with some DOS and older Windows-based games. If that doesn't do the trick, use the programming features in the Gravis Xperience software Goshuto mentioned to map keystrokes to your d-pad and buttons (assuming the game accepts keyboard inout  )... that should work for pretty much anything you run in windows.
If the game is designed to run in the OS you are using, and the pad is working fine in windows (in WinXP it should work even without the official drivers), then... I dunno... it should work. Have you been able to use any other controllers in the game? |
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