Hi, wish I could be posting here just to rave about how great DOSBox is (I've been playing Settlers for the last month) but I've had no joy with my USB joystick in SWOS. The stuff suggested as useful is below, in case anyone can suggest a fix...

Game name - Sensible World of Soccer 96/97

Description of problem - My Competition Pro 5000 USB joystick does not work properly - I can finish the opening credits with the fire button but after that the game seems to only recognise:
left on the joystick as down in the game,
up on the joystick as up in the game,
fire button works as normal,
no other directions on the joystick register in the game.

Reproducibility of problem - always

Steps already attempted to solve the problem -

(I've read the DOSBox README, hence attempting to fix the problem via mapper below)

When I install the game I choose the 1 joystick and 1 keyboard setting, and the joystick set-up recognises the joystick movements as I would expect.

I've tried the mapper but it hasn't helped yet. Changing the other available axes(?) makes things worse (don't understand why this should make any difference). I've tried setting timed=false in the config but this simply means the cursor starts on the top-left menu option ('Edit Tactics') and refuses to move from there. It's as if the game thinks the joystick is constantly being pointed in one direction.

I've trawled this forum and it seems SWOS doesn't like USB joysticks much. Here's my autoexec lines for my installation, as I suspect I'm doing something dumb earlier in the process. I'd rather find out I'm stupid than discover my retro gaming is slipping away from me 😉

(I have copied the game files to 'C:\Program Files\Sensible Software\Sensible Soccer' from the zip file I got from Abandonia, natch)

mount c "C:\Program Files\Sensible Software\Sensible Soccer"
mount d "C:\Program Files\Sensible Software\Sensible Soccer" -t cdrom
C:
install

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Motherboard - ?

Processor type and speed - Pentium 4 2.4Ghz

Amount and type of RAM - 1G

Video board - nVidia GeForce Ti 4600 (no idea of RAM)

Sound board - Creative SB Audigy

Operating system - Windows XP SP2

Sound mode used - ?

Video mode - ?

Version of emulator - DOSBox v0.72