So far this worked on some fighting games like One Must Fall 2097 or Super Street Fighter II: Turbo, shoot 'em ups like Tyrian 2000, and platformers Jill of the Jungle or Genocide 2: Master of the Dark Communion.

Unfortunately this isn't the 'end-all-be-all' solution for rebinding inputs on a controller. The same can be done for keyboard inputs, like mapping WASD to the Arrow Keys for Abuse. bind Arrow Key Up to D-Pad Up, Return/Enter Key to Start, Gamepad Button 1 on the Xbox 360 controller's A Button). If you want to bind a certain key to a controller input, let's say binding the arrow keys to the Xbox 360's controller's D-Pad, first you click the key on the on-screen keyboard for the arrow keys, then click on 'Add' on the menu where you will be prompt to add another input to the command (e.g. The keymapper is kinda like DOSBox's Xpadder though not as advanced but gets the job done for the most part. By pressing Ctrl+F1, you'll get a screen like this: Now what if a particular game doesn't give you the ability to rebind the inputs for the controller or calibrate the analog sticks, either in-game or as a separate set-up program? This is where DOSBox's keymapper comes in (special thanks to F4LL0UT for this).

By doing this, your D-Pad should work (thanks to enabling the D-Pad/Hat swtiches) and the analog sticks won't drift away (caused by 'timed' being set to ). What you need to do is set 'joysticktype' to fcs and 'timed' needs to be set to false. You might also want to reset the mapper file (usually it's 'mapper-0.74.map' by default for v0.74) or delete it before you change anything you can save a new one once you made the appropriate changes. After fiddling around the settings and looking up the solutions to these problems, these are the settings I use for some of the DOS games I play under DOSBox. Not sure about daum or the others.ĪmethystViper: Here are the default settings DOSBox's joystick settings, but the glaring problem these settings for Xbox 360 or XInput controllers is not being able to use the D-Pad and the analog stick not working properly. But I don't think you can do that with the mapper in stock dosbox. I mean, there's no actual reason why you couldn't have four axis and four buttons with no limitations at all, mapped to a standard joystick that the game can see, and in addition to this have the d-pad send arrow key events. But I seem to remember something about it applying the DOS restrictions to itself too, even though it could at least easily produce keypresses from excess controls. Unfortunately I forgot the particulars, it's been years since I fiddled with this. You may also want to look for an 'improved' dosbox, as the stock one is a bit bone-headed here. The game must also support these sticks and be configured accordingly.īasically choose ch if you need all four axis + hat for the game (but can then only press one button at a time), and fcs otherwise (only three axis + hat, but can press more than one button at the same time). The gameport joystick connector had pins for only four axis and four buttons, no hat! Your choices are CH, which sacrifices the button combinations, and FCS which sacrifices one axis. I can't sprint and shoot at the same time You can't just enable the d-pad/hat, you need to trade for it. The horizontal axis on the right stick doesn't work for some reason AmethystViper: thanks to enabling the D-Pad/Hat swtiches

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