This game worked fine for me on DosBox 0.63 a few months ago, even without dos32a.exe (which I have yet to try), with only an occasional lock up.

The effect of this patch is already present in 0.65 (not sure if it was incorporated or re-implemented, check it out if you're curious). In summary: 0.63 - Button assignments don't work - Axis movement assignments don't work 0.63 with this patch or 0.65 - Button assignments DO work - Axis movement …

Unfortunately, you still can't assign joystick axis movements to the keymapper, this is a long standing bug in DosBox. Joystick buttons work as keymapper assignments, though - at least that's been fixed.

The keymapper doesn't work whether joysticks or scancodes are enabled or not (or maybe it's really mapping keys to pad buttons, not the other way around like it should). The joystick/keymapper bug is one of the longest standing issues in DosBox. I tried to fix it myself in the code (in sld_mapper. …

Mapping buttons - yes. There's a patch by djrobx available in the DosBox patches section of the forum that fixes this, specifically. Just take the .diff file, manually search sld_mapper.cpp for the corresponding section, copy/paste the changes, and recompile DosBox. It worked for me. Mapping axis …

Thank you, djrobx! This patch does indeed work for joystick button assignments in the keymapper, but unfortunately not for joystick axis movements! i.e.: we can assign the axis movements to specific keys but they don't work. I tried to fix the code myself in sdl_mapper.cpp, but I think I lack the …