It should not ignore the hat switch simply because the emulated joystick does not have one. Don't see any problem with that. Why is that not a problem? Or are you agreeing with me? My physical joystick has a hat switch. It should not matter if the emulated joystick has one or not for dosbox to be …

Still though, the mapper in dosbox should be what allows me to map the various functions of the controller to functions in dosbox. It should not ignore the hat switch simply because the emulated joystick does not have one.

Well, I feel kinda silly about this. I recently got a XBOX 360 controller for emulators and such, and could not for the life of me get the dpad to work right in dosbox. I could map the controls just fine (it appears as a hat switch), but the bindings would never work in game. I even went as far as …