I'm having the same problem. has anybody found a solution to this? (probably involving dosbox.conf)

I'm trying to map a joystick button, to a key. Just the opposite of what you are doing. It saves to the mapper.txt file, but when I press the joystick button, the keyboard character does not show up. I wonder if this is possible.

that's the same thing

try either joytokey program (latest version 3.7.9en), 3.7.4en can be found at d-fend homepage or the PPJoy virtual sticks... (search google)

Apparently, this is a bug in Dosbox 0.63. There's a line missing in the code where it's supposed to to read joystick input in the keymapper, according to djrobx in this post. It seems he made a patch to fix it, unfortunately, I do not know where to download it or how to apply it.

Just tried the following current CVS builds:

• CVS-Compile (AEP): doesn't work
• gulikoza's: doesn't work
• ykhwong's: works for joystick button keymappings, but not for axis/directional pad movement