Well, if you're already using a virtual joystick you could just as well use the DOSBox keymapper only.

Change the joysticktype in dosbox.conf to ch, start DOSBox and use the keymapper (Ctrl+F1) to map whatever keyboard keys you want to use to the joystick x- and y-axis and buttons.

Thanks for the suggestion, I switched to Dosbox key-mapper only and I get the same behavior, I can move from menu to menu, all seems fine until game engine starts: then no reaction from mapped keys, just like when using PPjoy.

Something emerged from my memories of solving this very problem years ago. It may be unrelated but I noticed that when setting up keys for keyboard players Dyna would not allow me to use P,S,M keys as they were reserved for Pausing the game and toggling Sound and Music. I'm thinking may be at game start any key which wasn't mapped within the game itself is blocked, just like one can do with joystick emulators.

Anyhow I'm just speculating, I'll try some more. Any idea however experimental is welcome.

It works fine for me. I configured the the controls like this:
blue: I,J,K,L and Home (these are mapped to joystick)
black: R,D,F,G and Q
white: Arrows and Enter
red: N/A

I even tried mapping all 4 players in the same movement keys and separate bomb drop keys and it worked fine. I'm using DOSBox 0.74 on Windows 10.

Wow, really!?
This gives me hope. It might be something on my Win7, then. May be my laptop keyboard UK layout or drivers. I remember I had to play some tricks on the Win7 keyboard drivers back then. Would you be able to share your dosbox.conf for me to have a look at it, per chance?

EDIT
I've just created a Virtual Machine running WIN10, installed dosbox, set it up to run UK keyboard layout and Keyb UK (my keyboard is UK) and despite the high hopes I get the same problem. I tried the same thing on a VM with Win95 and another one with Win98SE.

I've read around that people may have problems with keyboard drivers and Dosbox. On my laptop I have the built in keyboard and a logitech wireless one and among my devices I can see a HID Keyboard Device and a Standard PS/2 Keyboard (which is also the same showing up in the VMs).

BTW, you also have to select analog1/analog2 from the game's input options.

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It works fine for me. I configured the the controls like this: blue: I,J,K,L and Home (these are mapped to joystick) black: R,D, […]
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It works fine for me. I configured the the controls like this:
blue: I,J,K,L and Home (these are mapped to joystick)
black: R,D,F,G and Q
white: Arrows and Enter
red: N/A
I even tried mapping all 4 players in the same movement keys and separate bomb drop keys and it worked fine. I'm using DOSBox 0.74 on Windows 10.

Hi, I have exactly the same problem like Amadeux, so thanks for the topic.

For virtual joystick Im using VJoy and its working perfect everywhere except the DynaBlaster. Joystick only work in menu.

Had you found a solution? Or "Zirkoni" could you share your version of Dynablaster?

Thanks

Why do you use virtual joystick? Just use the DOSBox keymapper as I've explained and it will work.