Joystick mapping

[LB11]

Is there a way to map 2 separate joysticks to an emulator?

If so how?

Thanks

[Michael]

Is there a way to map 2 separate joysticks to an emulator?

If so how?

Thanks

yes, firstly does the emulator not support joystick inputs? if so you can use Xpadder this will allow you to map keys to joystick buttons

Xpadder can be found on the Download section on the new Gammex site under other downloads

all you need to do is set the emulator up with the keyboard keys thenuse xpadder to map the keyboard keys to the joysticks

[LB11]

yes, firstly does the emulator not support joystick inputs? if so you can use Xpadder this will allow you to map keys to joystick buttons

Xpadder can be found on the Download section on the new Game ex site under other downloads

all you need to do is set the emulator up with the keyboard keys then use xpadder to map the keyboard keys to the joysticks

No, all the emulators have joystick controls, the problem is that I don't have an arcade box with set controllers. I have a lot of controllers that I swap depending what I'm playing or whatever. So if you start up an emulator with different controllers than what you originally setup it doesn't work properly all of the time. Its no problem sitting in front of a computer with mouse and keyboard, but I would like everything automated for others to use as a "console"

Id like to find a program that will automatically detect the controller plugged in and then map a set of keys, possibly even taking into account the emulator.

xpadder sounds promising though! I will definitely try it out when I get home! So far joy2mouse is actually the best program I found so far!

[Brian Hoffman]

No, all the emulators have joystick controls, the problem is that I don't have an arcade box with set controllers. I have a lot of controllers that I swap depending what I'm playing or whatever. So if you start up an emulator with different controllers than what you originally setup it doesn't work properly all of the time. Its no problem sitting in front of a computer with mouse and keyboard, but I would like everything automated for others to use as a "console"

Id like to find a program that will automatically detect the controller plugged in and then map a set of keys, possibly even taking into account the emulator.

xpadder sounds promising though! It will definitely try it out when I get home! So far joy2mouse is actually the best program I found so far!

michael is right

Xpadder is the best method.. The reason is It will load a profile per controller. Setup you emus to use keypresses instead of joystick.

Use Xpadder to simulate the key presses via the joystick. Create a profile for each of your controllers using the configured mapping.

To make things really easy I would configure all emus to use the same keys this way you dont have to have a per emulator profile.

[LB11]

michael is right

Xpadder is the best method.. The reason is It will load a profile per controller. Setup you emus to use key presses instead of joystick.

Use Xpadder to simulate the key presses via the joystick. Create a profile for each of your controllers using the configured mapping.

To make things really easy I would configure all emus to use the same keys this way you dont have to have a per emulator profile.

Sounds like what I was hoping for. Ill let you know how it turns out. Thanks for the help guys!

[LB11]

This is great software! I have one question though, how would I set it up to run when I load an emu and exit when I quit the emu?

Right now I have the gameex select button mapped as z for example. When I press select in gameex to load the game it will go strait to the first game with Z and load that with one button press......

[Michael]

This is great software! I have one question though, how would I set it up to run when I load an emu and exit when I quit the emu?

Right now I have the gameex select button mapped as z for example. When I press select in gameex to load the game it will go strait to the first game with Z and load that with one button press......

when you launch an emulator you can use "Launch before" and put xpadder path in there this will load xpadder up before th emulator loads

you should be able to use Launch after

if you make a BAT file containing the following it will kill the Xpadder proccess

TASKKILL /F /IM xpadder.exe

[bkenobi]

Just a note: You don't actually HAVE to kill XPadder when you exit the emulator. If you want, you could have it setup to have a GameEx configuration and a configuration for each emulator. Then, when you launch an emulator, you would use launch before with your emulator's controller configuration file called out. When you quit the emulator, have a launch after event calling the GameEx config. You could even have the GameEx config blank so that it doesn't map anything if you want. I personally use the GameEx config to map the first and second player's controls to the GameEx controls so both players can pick games.

[LB11]

Thanks for the replies everyone. Ill see what I can get setup tonight.

[Nologic]

The command line options can be used with the command prompt, a batch file or a shortcut. All options can be combined in any order. Switches (for example; /M) can be in upper or lower case. If filenames and/or paths include spaces then they must be enclosed in quotes. If no command line options are listed and Xpadder is already running then Xpadder will restore or minimize, whichever is necessary.

xpadder "profile1" "profile2" "profile3" "shortcut.lnk" /M /C /?

"profile"

Starts Xpadder and automatically opens the profile(s) onto each controller. If Xpadder is already running the profiles will be automatically opened.

- If no controllers are connected then Xpadder will remember the profile(s) to open when a controller is connected

- If only one profile is specified and more than one controller is connected then the selected controller will open the profile

- If more than one profile is specified and more than one controller is connected then the first profile will be opened by the first controller and so on

- If the profile extension is omitted it will be automatically added

"shortcut.lnk"

Starts Xpadder (if it is not already running) and launches the shortcut.

- The shortcut must be a ".lnk" file and you must include the ".lnk" extension

- To launch an executable first create a shortcut to it and use the name of that shortcut

- Shortcuts will only launch when at least one controller is found, all controllers are connected and all profiles have successfully opened

/M

Starts Xpadder minimized. If Xpadder is already running it will be minimized if necessary.

/C

Closes Xpadder if it is already running (if Xpadder is not already running then it will not start).

/?

Displays this help window

[bkenobi]

So then another option would be:

XPadder.exe /C

[LB11]

When I set it to launch before it launches xpadder but will not start the emulator until I close xpadder. How do I get the emulator to run right after?