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First post, by warpdesign_

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Today I wanted to play my favorite game with my pad. So I brought the mapper, mapped my hat left/right to left/right keys, and up/down to up/down keys. Inside the mapper, my hat left/right/up/down moves are recognized and assigned properly.

Problem is inside the game, using my hat up/right/left/down has no effect. Seems like mapper & in-game events works differently.

Please note that using the analog controls works both inside the mapper, and inside the game. Left/right/up/down keyboard keys work as expected inside the game.

I'm using DOSBox 0.74 and WinXP (32bit, SP3). The pad works ok in other windows apps (including the hat controls).

Inside the mapper file, here is what I am having for the left_key for example:

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key_left "stick_0 hat 0 8" "key 276"
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Last edited by warpdesign_ on 2010-06-12, 10:43. Edited 2 times in total.

Reply 1 of 4, by warpdesign_

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Please note that the mapping doesn't work in other games either. Nor does it work on the dos prompt. When mapping the analogs controls instead, it works, including on the dos prompt (moving analog stick moves the cursor, but moving the hat controls won't move the cursor).

Reply 2 of 4, by robertmo

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read dosbox's manual

Reply 3 of 4, by warpdesign_

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You know, some people do read the docs before complaining...

If you're refering to that line:

If you want to remap anything to your d-pad/hat you will have to change
'joysticktype=auto' to 'joysticktype=fcs' in configuration file. Maybe this
will be improved in the next dosbox version.

I have made the change. And it doesn't change anything...

Guess I should wait for the next dosbox version then...

Reply 4 of 4, by robertmo

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where have you got dosbox from?
what are your PC specifications?

what games have problems?

post content of "DOSBox Status Window" (in Windows: right click on its title bar -> edit)
enclose your dosbox's config file
enclose your dosbox's mapper file