Simple, quick question - my old joystick is busted, but I'd like to play Wetlands, a game that demands a joystick. Is it possible to fool DOSBox into thinking my mouse is a joystick somehow?
I expect no, but worth a try.
you can map your keyboard as joystick. not your mouse
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Some third-party tools might exist.
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Now I see that I can add keyboard keys for the joystick functions in the key remapper... any recommendations on keys to choose? I'm slightly lost as to what the joystick controls refer to. "up down left right" is obvious, but are the "1 2, 3 4" for four different joystick fire buttons?
Not to make this into a game specific question, but the game's asking me to "circulate stick and fire" as part of joystick calibration, and it doesn't seem to respond to me pressing the keys chosen on the remapper. For the record, the joystick settings in dosbox.conf are default:
joysticktype=auto
timed=true
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=true
The PC joystick interface used by DOS games provided the following:
- 4 analog axes (joy1 vertical, joy1 horizontal, joy2 vertical, joy2 horizontal)
- 4 on/off fire buttons (intention was for 2 buttons on joy1 and 2 buttons on joy2)
The game is asking you to circulate the stick so that it can determine the voltage limits on the analog axes because each joystick has different limits on its electrical resistance that is used to determine the positions of the analog stick.
I have no idea how the dosbox mapper works though, so I can't address issues with that.
