Game Pad Help!!!

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:10 am

My SNES Games will work fine on my computer from the SNES Emulator via the computer keypad, but the gamepad will not as it used to at one time. I have tried configuring the gamepad like I used to do and it worked fine before, but now it won't at all. Can you please tell me what to do to get this gamepad configured to work once more. Thanks!

SparroHawc · Post by **SparroHawc** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:31 pm

You may need to remap the buttons for it to work, then restart SNES9x.

First things first though - if you go into the Input Configuration screen, select a button, and press a button on the controller, does it change the mapping like it should?

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:17 am

I don't know yet as I'm not gonna be with it until possibly next week at the latest. So until then, please be patient with me and I'll let you know if it worked or not. Thanks! Hope it does!

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:22 am

Thanks for being patient with me. Some do and some don't and the ones that do still don't do anything even after I set them. Any more advice on what to do will be most helpful again. Thanks!

SparroHawc · Post by **SparroHawc** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 6:05 pm

24ggirl wrote:Thanks for being patient with me. Some do and some don't and the ones that do still don't do anything even after I set them. Any more advice on what to do will be most helpful again. Thanks!

Strange. This sounds like the same issue others have had with the Logitech gamepads. We unfortunately don't have a solution at the moment - but there is a workaround. If you grab the Windows version of Joy2Key you can make the system think you're pressing keyboard keys instead of gamepad buttons. That'll get you around just about any controller issues you run across.

Get the utility here:

http://www.electracode.com/4/joy2key/Jo ... ersion.htm

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:29 am

I don't have a Logitech Gamepad.

This gamepad is by Retrolink.

Even though I don't have the Logitech Gamepad, will this download link you provided help me with this issue that I'm facing with it?

niloklives · Post by **niloklives** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 1:34 am

joy to key will work with any controller that windows recognizes, even a dualshock 3 via motion in joy. just use the gamepad control panel to find out your button layout and joy2key will take care of the rest. just make sure you have joy2key open when you use SNES 9x and disable your controller within snes9x so there are no conflicts.

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:03 am

OK! Got it! I'll give it a try and see what happens within the next 5 days, so please do me a favor and keep this support/issue open until I do, and I'll let you know what happens, and in the meantime, thanks for all of your helpful advice thus far as it's all worth a BIG BIG shot at it!

SparroHawc · Post by **SparroHawc** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:13 pm

I look at all the new posts and replies, so no worries there.

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:49 am

Thanks for letting me know that because I didn't want you to think that I was being lazy or anything like that or not trying to reply back in a timely manner like you have to me. Thanks again for all of your help you have given me thus far!

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:20 am

OK, now this is what happens after I download and try to run the link you sent me.

When I double click the JoyToKey icon to run it:

I get this Error Message Window that says, "Couldn't find Joysticks!!!"

"Make sure Joysticks are connected and DirectX 6 is installed."

The gamepad is connected but I don't think the DirectX 6 is installed.

Do you have a link I can download the DirectX 6 from so it will hopefully work?

Thanks again for your help!

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:35 pm

okay.

first off, directx 6 is very outdated, and even if _some_ bits of snes9x still use directx 6 for whatever reason, the latest version of directx should work.

next, what version of snes9x you using?

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 6:15 am

Snes9X v1.39a

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:28 am

24ggirl wrote:Snes9X v1.39a

PLEASE use the latest Snes9X. check the stickies.

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:45 am

I understand by what you mean by having the latest version, but what do you mean by check the stickies?

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:39 pm

24ggirl wrote:I understand by what you mean by having the latest version, but what do you mean by check the stickies?

Actually, that should've been check the ANNOUNCEMENTS, sorry.

in any case, both stickies and announcements are at the top of the forum, marked Announcement: and Sticky: respectively.

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:20 am

Thanks for this bit of info too! I'll give it a try a little bit later on when I get the chance and see what happens. I'll as usual let you know the outcome when I do. Thanks!

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Wed May 04, 2011 7:08 am

Well for some reason or another, I got it to somehow work and got the configuration window for the JoyToKey when I double clicked it to work to enable the keyboard when using the gamepad and then closed it out, and then tried to go back into it so that the JoyToKey would show back up so that I could play the games, and now I'm back to where I left off where it still wants the DirectX6 and to make sure the gamepad is plugged in properly.

What do I need to do to get the JoyToKey to come back up and keep it visible so that I can play the games now? Thanks!

SparroHawc · Post by **SparroHawc** » Thu May 05, 2011 4:08 pm

I am starting to suspect that your problem is with the gamepad, not the software. If JoyToKey can't pick up that you have a gamepad, it's possible that SNES9x can't find it either for the same reason - especially since you're saying that JoyToKey -did- work that one time. Have you tried using the gamepad with a different game?

Also, try unplugging the gamepad, plugging it back in, waiting 20 seconds, and bringing up JoyToKey again. Make sure the game controller is showing up in your 'Game Controllers' control panel (or wherever it is Windows Vista and 7 keep that thing).

Sorry for my lack of posting - I did see it eventually! I was out of town for a week and for some reason the forum didn't remember what posts I hadn't seen. :/

24ggirl · Post by **24ggirl** » Fri May 06, 2011 8:45 am

By you saying that if it may be the problem with the gamepad and not the software, that may be the reason that the JoyToKey refuses to download and pick up the gamepad just like the SNES9x does and show properly like it (JoyToKey) did just the one time?

Yes, I have tried the gamepad for different games, and still no luck at all.

Well the same thing happens when I unplug and then plug in the gamepad. What's happening is that it sounds like it gets plugged in and that Windows recognizes it from the sound it makes, and then all of a sudden, I get the sound it makes as if I unplugged the gamepad even though I didn't at all. This happens several times off and on before it quits.

What do you think is going on here?