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Hello there. I have an 8BitDo M30 bluetooth gamepad which is connected to my Mac. The Mac detects the gamepad, however the it doesn’t show up in the FS-UAE Amiga Joystick menu or in the settings menu. I thought I’d configured the joypad correctly using the FS-UAE settings menu, but the start and select buttons don’t control the game, they just bring up and control the FS-UAE sidebar menu. Any ideas what I can do to get the gamepad to work properly to control the games please? Thanks.

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FrodeSolheim on 2021-11-18 at 10:27 said:

Hi, can you try with the latest 3.1 release available from the download page?

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Hi! Fantastic work on the emulator! I am using the MacOS version.
I’d love to use my PS4 controllers but I can’t seem to figure out how to make it work. They show up, but they don’t work inside the game.

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FrodeSolheim on 2020-05-03 at 11:08 said:

Hi, try opening Launcher settings -> Controllers, doubleclick on your controller and configure all the buttons (etc) there.

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Hello. I have a USB Competition Pro joystick that I’ve been using happily with FS-UAE for months now.

It identifies as “speedlink_competition_pro_game_controller_for_android”

But now I’ve updated both my system from Ubuntu 18.04LTS to 20.04LTS and started using the snap version of FS-UAE 3.03….and it refuses to see the joystick any more

The joystick is correctly detected and works perfectly in jstest-gtk, appearing as “SPEEDLINK COMPETITION PRO Game Controller for Android” on /dev/input/js0

But FS-UAE refuses to see it. Constantly reporting no devices attached. What’s changed? It was working perfectly before!

I noticed this entry when starting from the command line:

b’# FS-UAE Device Helper 3.0.3\n# Keyboards:\n# Keyboards path: /home/hamakei/snap/fsuae/common/FS-UAE/Data/Devs/Keyboards\nK: Keyboard\n# Mice:\nM: Mouse\n# Joysticks:\n# SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK)\n# SDL_NumJoysticks(): 0\n# End\n’

…is SDL failing to see it? Why? What’s changed? This is incredibly frustrating, an update breaking my setup like this for no reason…

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Hamakei on 2020-04-24 at 21:19 said:

Ah. That’s interesting. Installing 3.02 from the Ubuntu repositories…my joystick works correctly. But the snap installation can’t see it.

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- FrodeSolheim on 2020-04-24 at 21:47 said:
  
  It is probably due to Snaps running in a sandbox, and the security around the sandbox has probably been tightened so that the app does not see the joystick devices any longer. Maybe that can be fixed with a configuration setting in the snap. But the snap package is not official, and I don’t have anything to do with that, so you need to report the issue to the maintainer of the snap 🙂
  
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  - Hamakei on 2020-04-26 at 02:19 said:
    
    Yeah…I’m not really a fan of snaps…Ubuntu seem very keen to force them upon us but I’ve had nothing but problems with them. Memory hogs, disk hogs, creating loopback devices everywhere, not having access to input devices or encrypted drives…automatic updates even if they break something..
    
    Had to go through and remove them all from my system and replace them with better versions from PPAs
    
    But yeah, I guess you’ve drawn attention to another complication. I didn’t know the snap wasn’t official…and I suspect quite a few people won’t either. But that is presented to people when they attempt to install FS-UAE using the Discover applet on the newest Ubuntu…
    
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Hi Frode,

I am discovering FS-UAE which is your baby and I must tell you are making really great job and your activity is quite impressive.

I am facing one problem which looks strange to me : the second joystick detection.

I am using the latest portable FS-UAE 3.02 with Windows 10 and I have got 2 x iBuffalo Classic USB Gamepad which seems perfectly detected by FS-UAE.
I have the complete Retroplay WHDLoad and I updated correctly the OpenRetro database.

For each game from this database, I always have “Amiga Joystick” with my “Default USB#1 controller” and “Amiga Mouse” with my “Windows Mouse” but when I launch 2 players games (Bubble Bobble, Kick Off, Pang,…) my second USB controller is not active unless I change “Amiga Mouse” with “Amiga Joystick” and choose my Controller n°2.

Do I have to make that configuration file for each multiplayer game ? Is there a way to make the second controller automatically detected instead of the mouse for those games ?

I am sure I am missing something as nobody else asked that kind of question on the support forum but I can’t find what it is.

Thanks,

Patgom145

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FrodeSolheim on 2020-04-24 at 22:22 said:

Yes, FS-UAE cannot know if a game uses the mouse or not :-/

But, the good news is that you can submit updates to the online game database for two-player joystick games. For example, you can:
– go to https://openretro.org/amiga/bubble-bobble/edit
– choose joystick_port_0_mode
– type joystick in the text field
– and submit

And then you’ll fix that game for both yourself and others 🙂

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Hi,

great work! Just one question: is it possible to connect a PS4-Controller (either Bluetooth or USB) to use it for fs-uae? The Controller is connected, but i’m not able to choose it inside the GUI. I’m running on Ubuntu 18.10. Thx, Roland

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FrodeSolheim on 2020-04-24 at 22:27 said:

Yes, that should work fine. Works fine it both modes here. I don’t remember if it works on 18.10, but it certainly works on newer Ubuntu versions.

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so, I’ve been searching through tons of old forums, and I found a solution. I found a dev5 version of the current one, that possibly replaced the SDL2 dll maybe, as some systems wouldn’t show it. It is now showing up with this newest code, it just wasn’t on the site when I downloaded, but not even the older stable version worked for me. Either way, its showing up now with this newest version I found in some forum.
Yeah the weird thing was that they show up inside the game when pressing F12 and going in to set it there. It was just annoying that I had to do this at the beginning at the start of each game

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Hello, I am new to this emulator and Amiga emulation in general. I’ve been reading through everything, and I have come across an issue. I’ve tried both Stable fs-uae-portable-suite_2.8.3 and Developer fs-uae-portable-suite_2.9.7dev3 …. Im running Windows 10 64bit Pro. My issue is that in the launcher, I can never get my joystick recoginzed, however, when I press F12, I can go into the settings, and get to it, then set it, and it works, but back in the launcher, it always shows Default (No Device). Any thoughts on why in game, it sees it, but in the launcher, it can’t? So this prevents me from settings up mappings etc. I’ve tried this with both Xbox One Elite controller, Xbox One generic controller, and Xbox 360 wireless controller. All 3 in windows, I can goto devices, and joystick and test the buttons, sticks, etc, so that tells me windows sees them as controllers, correct? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Jerome Howard on 2019-01-21 at 05:07 said:

Also forgot to say that I also tried hard wiring them instead of wireless, but to no avail… 🙁

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FrodeSolheim on 2019-11-05 at 22:29 said:

This should be fixed in FS-UAE Launcher 3.0 🙂

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Hi Frode –

Using the latest development version, injected into Amilator and booting to an A1200/040. Everything is almost working, but I can’t get FS-UAE to automatically select my joystick. I have a Speed-link Competition Pro (I know, but I like it!) which is detected fine in the F12 menu, and works just lovely. However, putting this line in the config file:

joystick_port_1 = SPEED-LINK Competition Pro

Does not automatically enable the joystick – the menu shows “No device”.

I can’t see what the full name is (though my mac shows it as the above when connected) in FS-UAE as the name is too long to display – it shows “A SPEED-LINK COMPETITIO” before running out of space in the UI.

Is this broken or am I doing something spectacularly stupid?

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Dunny on 2017-10-15 at 12:27 said:

Also just to mention that running “uae-configuration” with no parameters lists joystick_port_1 as having Nothing assigned to it even though the F12 menu has the joystick selected and tested working. Using uae-configuration joystick_port_1 to set the joystick also fails, regardless of surrounding the joystick name in quote marks or not (I’m not entirely sure how uae-configuration handles parameters with spaces in their names).

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- FrodeSolheim on 2017-10-16 at 16:20 said:
  
  Input configuration via uae-configuration is not supported in FS-UAE.
  
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Hi, the device name can vary depending on OS. You can check in fs-uae.log.txt what the full name is (since it’s too long for the UI). You’ll see something like this:

...
[INPUT] fs_ml_input_init
[INPUT] fs_ml_mouse_init
[INPUT] Adding system mouse
[INPUT] Joystick device count: 1
[INPUT] SDL_JoystickGetDeviceGUID(0) = 030000000b0400003365000000010000
[INPUT] SDL_JoystickOpen(0)
[INPUT] Joystick device #01 found: MOSIC      SPEED-LINK COMPETITION PRO
[INPUT] 4 buttons 0 hats 2 axes 0 balls
[INPUT] Joystick instance ID = 0
[INPUT] Initialize
...

So, on my system,

joystick_port_1 = MOSIC      SPEED-LINK COMPETITION PRO

should work fine (it’s case insensitive).

(Note: with only one joystick connected, it should also automatically be inserted into port 1 if you don’t specify devices for ports…)

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Hi Frode,

I recently updated from 2.6.2 to 2.8.2 but the home button of my xbox 360 doesn’t launch the in-game menu (F12) anymore. I’m using OS X 10.10.5

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FrodeSolheim on 2017-01-01 at 14:05 said:

Hi, please update to version 2.8.2u1 or newer 🙂

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- bitmap father on 2017-01-03 at 20:20 said:
  
  I’ve tried 2.8.2u1 but it didn’t work either. I also tried 2.9.2dev : the home button trigger fire instead of the menu (same as 2.8.2u1). I’v checked several times and nothing is overrided by configs. The controller config in the parameters has home mapped to button_10. In fact most of the buttons (d-pad included) trigger Fire.
  
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  - FrodeSolheim on 2017-01-08 at 20:53 said:
    
    Hi, it sounds like the controller just isn’t recognized out of the box. Please use Launcher Settings: Joysticks and Gamepads and configure your gamepad there (double-click it to configure it).
    
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    - bitmap father on 2017-01-15 at 03:54 said:
      
      Hi, it’s finally working with 2.8.3 and remaping the buttons !

The emulator recognises my PS3 controller connected via USB but when I start a game none of the buttons work. All 4 lights flash on the controller, it should just light up the player 1 light. Any help appreciated

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FrodeSolheim on 2016-03-14 at 22:54 said:

Hi, the lights are not controlled by FS-UAE. It is possible you have a problem with your controller unrelated to FS-UAE.
1. What operating system do you have?
2. Does the controller work in other applications/games on the same system?

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Hi Frode,

I’m here for the autofire again 😉

Since my update to 2.6.1, the left trigger didn’t auto fire anymore, on my PS3 controller. The right trigger autofire did not work either.

I found out, that in /usr/share/fs-uae/input/sony/playstation_r_3_controller.ini, there were the following mappings:
axis_12_pos = left_trigger
axis_13_pos = right_trigger

I could make the triggers work normally by changing this to:
button_8 = left_trigger
button_9 = right_trigger

…could be a patch for the next dev version 😉

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FrodeSolheim on 2015-09-24 at 20:46 said:

Hi, can you run the latest version of FS-UAE Launcher? If so, please run the joystick configuration tool (Settings -> Joysticks), map all buttons, and save. This should store *two* files in (Documents)/FS-UAE/Controllers (best to empty this dir beforehand if there are any files there). If you send those two files to frode@fs-uae.net, I’ll look and see if they should be included with FS-UAE 🙂

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Hello, I have a problem with a joystick.

To use the adapter of the Gamecube controller for Wii U I’m using a software called VJOY. This is a very common solution for when you want to create an input to something that is not exactly common.

Windows recognizes the vjoy and shows me the keys pressed in the configuration. All other emulators see it properly. FS-UAE sees only if a create a file vjoy_device.ini with [amiga] [menu] [amigacd32], but it works only for [menu].

I’m trying it in both the running cd32 emulator and on the configurator tool og fs-launcher but does not see the key pressed. Menu of fs-uae once started does work. it’s the only that recive the buttons pressions.

Log doen’t contains error, it see the pad. You have idea of what it is?

VJOY site: http://vjoystick.sourceforge.net/

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FrodeSolheim on 2015-08-07 at 01:48 said:

Hi, can you send me both vjoy_device.ini and fs-uae.log.txt?

Also, are you using the stable version. If so, can you also try with the latest development version?

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- Sir_Leon on 2015-08-07 at 12:36 said:
  
  Yes the stable version.
  The problem is when you have more controller with the same name.
  If I leave 4 V JOY as the game cube controller software create i can’t use the current pad on port 1, if i remove the other 3 virtual V JOY device the first one work correctly.
  
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  - FrodeSolheim on 2015-08-07 at 21:05 said:
    
    Can you try with the newly released 2.6.0beta1 version?
    
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Hi Frode, I am using a PS4 controller, through the DS4Windows software. Everything works fine. But the touchpad works like a mouse, and touching it mid-game causes the input to change to mouse automatically. I have entered automatic_input_grab = 0 in the configuration file but no luck. The relevant part of my configuration file looks like this:

joystick_port_0 = xinput controller
joystick_port_0_mode = joystick
joystick_port_1 = xinput controller #2
joystick_port_1_mode = joystick

automatic_input_grab = 0

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FrodeSolheim on 2015-01-24 at 15:16 said:

Hi, I understand your problem. I have added a new feature (will come in 2.5.27dev) where you can use joystick_port_0_autoswitch = 0 to disable this behaviour (automatic_input_grab is something else)!

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Hey Frode. Are USB Analogue/Flight controllers supported in FS-UAE? Would love to play some flight sims with one. Thanks.

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FrodeSolheim on 2015-01-24 at 14:59 said:

Hi, sorry, this feature isn’t supported yet. I have an issue for this on github which you can subscribe to in order to get any updates on the progress: https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-uae/issues/17 🙂

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hi. i am not a tech guy so here goes my qn. i am trying to play middle earth-shadow of mordor but have a dualshock light wave usb controller. i downloaded the xbox360 emulator but my pad still doesn’t work on the game. an ideas.? plus, i only see logitech controllers listed in the emulators database along with other names like PC TWIN SHOCK etc.

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FrodeSolheim on 2015-01-17 at 21:15 said:

Hi. All joysticks and gamepads should have basic support out of the box, unless they have unusual button mappings. But anyway, you should use FS-UAE Launcher -> Settings – Joystick. There, you can double-click on the joystick and let FS-UAE know about the layout of your gamepad. Afterwards, it should work fine in FS-UAE.

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- Dinis on 2015-06-07 at 10:18 said:
  
  I can’t find the settings and joystick to configure.
  
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  - FrodeSolheim on 2015-08-06 at 18:12 said:
    
    There is a Settings menu entry if you click on the FS-UAE icon in the top left corner of FS-UAE Launcher. You should find joystick preferences there.
    
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Hello FS,
I use the 2.4.1 version of this fantastic emulator on Windows 7 64 bit. It works fine, but I have a little issue I don’t understand.
I have a SpeedLink Competition Pro joystick, and I used the joystick configuration tool to map the commands. My problem is that in this case it works fine with “FS-UAE Launcher”, but not with “FS-UAE Arcade”. More precisely, the mapping seems being recognised for the home menu, but not in-game. This problem does not appear at all with “FS-UAE Launcher”.
It’s maybe important: I use the portable version of FS-UAE.

Can you help me, please ?

Thanks in advance !

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FrodeSolheim on 2014-08-18 at 11:12 said:

Hi, I need some more information in order to debug the issue. I need two sets of logs, one where you have started a game via FS-UAE Launcher (and it works), and one set where you’ve started the same game via FS-UAE Arcade (and the joystick does not work). See http://fs-uae.net/log-files-needed for information about log files 🙂

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- FredB on 2014-09-01 at 18:06 said:
  
  Ok ! I’ll send you ASAP the required log files on the English Amiga Board Forum, in a specific thread.
  
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- FredB on 2014-09-01 at 18:42 said:
  
  Done ! You can find my post at this link: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=74959
  
  Thanks !
  
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Hi,

I read about the auto-fire toggle feature with the left trigger in FS-UAE 2.2 release notes. I currently run FS-UAE 2.4.1, on Kubuntu Linux, and it doesn’t work. I’m using a Logitech Dual Action gamepad.

Btw, it wasn’t automagically recognized, and I had to configure it. FS-UAE launcher created a file named logitech_logitech_dual_action_12_4_1_0_linux.conf, which is very similar to /usr/share/fs-uae/input/logitech_dual_action_12_4_1_0_macosx.conf bundled with fs-uae. I triple-checked that the following line was present in the file:
button_6 = left_trigger

Any idea on how to have this feature working? Is the autofire-toggle feature still present in FS-UAE 2.4.1? Any chance to see a per-button autofire configuration in a future release (à la WinUAE)?

My thumb thanks you in advance 😉

Bye.

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Frolp on 2014-08-03 at 18:58 said:

I found the answer!

I added the following lines in the file:

[device]
name = Logitech Dual Action
type = joystick/gamepad

and I replaced “include = universal_gamepad” by “include = common/gamepad”.

Now it works.

And here is the complete file, if you want to include it in the package:

$ cat logitech_logitech_dual_action_12_4_1_0_linux.conf
# Logitech Dual Action

[device]
name = Logitech Dual Action
type = joystick/gamepad

[default]
include = common/gamepad
axis_0_neg = lstick_left
axis_0_pos = lstick_right
axis_1_neg = lstick_up
axis_1_pos = lstick_down
axis_2_neg = rstick_left
axis_2_pos = rstick_right
axis_3_neg = rstick_up
axis_3_pos = rstick_down
button_0 = west_button
button_1 = south_button
button_2 = east_button
button_3 = north_button
button_4 = left_shoulder
button_5 = right_shoulder
button_6 = left_trigger
button_7 = right_trigger
button_8 = select_button
button_9 = start_button
button_10 = lstick_button
button_11 = rstick_button
hat_0_down = dpad_down
hat_0_left = dpad_left
hat_0_right = dpad_right
hat_0_up = dpad_up

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- FrodeSolheim on 2015-01-17 at 21:44 said:
  
  Thank you for your investigation and feedback 🙂 – You are right, there were an issue with there being two almost (but note quite) identical gamepad configurations (universal_gamepad and common/gamepad). This is now fixed in the development versions!
  
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  - Karl on 2015-10-28 at 17:58 said:
    
    First I want to thank you for a very nice app.
    
    I was struggling a bit regarding getting my two controllers (Playstation 3 Dualshock) over bluetooth (qtsixa) to work with fs-uae the first time. It’s stated in your doc. that these controllers are supported out-of-the box, but I had to create custom mapping for both to be able to use them. Furthermore, by upgrading to latest dev. version (2.7.4) I could not get any of the controllers to work.
    
    Currently working setup: fs-uae + launcher v2.2.3 stable. Controller names showing up as: PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller (id).
    
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    - FrodeSolheim on 2015-10-28 at 22:21 said:
      
      Hi, I’m sure we’ll get the controllers working. Btw, the mentioned out-of-the-box-experience works at least for wired mode (via USB), but probably not for Bluetooth as you discovered.
      
      In what way do the controllers not work with 2.7.4dev? Do they not appear at all? Can you configure them with the configuration tool in FS-UAE Launcher? Please provide some more information about this, and if you could also send fs-uae.log.txt to frode@fs-uae.net I’ll take a closer look!

Hi,

I’ve been trying to use my PS3 controller with FS-UAE on my MacBook Pro. The controller kind of works ok, but alternately intermittently the ‘X’ button causes the screen flash off for a second and doesn’t have any action, which makes play very difficult! Is there a solution?

Thanks

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FrodeSolheim on 2014-06-22 at 22:56 said:

Flashing screen sounds weird… -does this happen for a specific game, or all games? If it is only one games, perhaps the Amiga hardware configuration you are using is not 100% compatible with the game?

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- Mattei on 2014-07-02 at 19:29 said:
  
  Its seems to be any version on Sensible Soccer or SWOS. Its only very briefly it ‘blinks’ black, but makes a the game unplayable. I’ve just tried another game and that was fine. Configuration seems to run fine in every other way.
  
  …No worries if there’s no solution, I’ve just had quick try, and the triangle button has the same function as the X with no problem, so I’ll use that!
  
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  - FrodeSolheim on 2014-07-10 at 14:05 said:
    
    What Amiga model / accuracy setting are you using? Are you using other non-default settings? Please try running the game with A500 or A600 with default settings. Does that help?
    
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Hi,

greatest emulator ever. If I get my competition pro running I’ll be playing for ages…;)
Well, here we are:

I cannot seem to get my competition pro running on FS-UAE for MAC.Currently I am trying it out on my Macbook pro.
I also have USB-Overdrive running on my MACBook to make sure the joystick is recognized.
I tried any combination in the FS-UAE setting. However, I cannot get the joysticks running. It’s always only mouse or keyboard.
Could you give me a step-by-step manual to activate my joystick competition pro in FS-UAE, please ?

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FrodeSolheim on 2014-05-27 at 15:43 said:

Hi Chris, the joystick should work out of the box (provided that OS X recognizes it as a joystick). Just make sure to plug in the joystick before starting FS-UAE Launcher. I’m not sure what “USB-Overdrive” does, but one possibility is that this application reconfigures the device somehow so it is no longer recognized as a joystick device (?). Try disabling “USB-Overdrive” and see if it works then. If not, you can also send Documents/Cache/Logs/fs-uae.log.txt to frode@fs-uae.net and I can see if the device is discovered (just make sure to start *and quit* FS-UAE while the joystick is connected before attaching the log).

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- Chris on 2014-05-27 at 23:14 said:
  
  Thanks a lot. I thought of deactivating USB overdrive before. However, that was not enough. So, I uninstalled it completely now…and Voila!…It works now.
  So do not use USB Overdrive for the Speedlink Competition Pro Joystick. It, in deed, runs alone on MAC.
  
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- Joe on 2014-06-24 at 22:44 said:
  
  I’m having a hard time trying to configure the Speedlink Competition Pro to work… I click on the configuration tool in the settings, and I get an image of a twin stick game pad? Not sure what is what here… (out of the box, only the left firebutton does anything)
  
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  - FrodeSolheim on 2014-06-24 at 22:48 said:
    
    Yes, it is supposed to work out of the box. However, if you have used the configuration tool for this joystick, you need to make sure you have a valid configuration. Just map the stick to the “dpad” entries, the left fire button to “south” and the right fire button to “west”.
    
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  - FrodeSolheim on 2014-06-24 at 23:37 said:
    
    Also make sure your Amiga configuration is correct. If you for example have chosen “mouse mode” for the joystick port, you will also notice that only the buttons work, but not the directions.
    
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“FS-UAE Launcher comes with an easy-to-use GUI for map the buttons of any gamepad or joystick.”
Where is it ? I use a xbox 360 controller on my mac but I don’t like how the buttons are mapped (fire is on the directionnal pad (up and right), i’d prefer A or B).

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FrodeSolheim on 2014-04-19 at 00:57 said:

Menu -> Settings -> Joystick

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Hi,

It all worked like a charm, with a playstation 3 controller via usb. I later also added a simular controller from the brand konig, however, it didn’t seem to recognize all the buttons. So I added another playstation 3 controller, but then it didn’t work at all. So, after switching usb ports, the other one wich worked fine, also stopped working and in the dropdown menu of “joysticks” there are now 3 playstation 3 listed. I checked settings for joystick and there they are listed as well and want to remove them, but no idea how to do that. I don’t want the programm (launcher) to recongize it. Any idea how I can do that?

Thanks in advance!!

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FrodeSolheim on 2014-03-22 at 18:50 said:

Hi, it would be useful if you can provide me with simple step by step instructions from start to end, with a description on observed behaviour vs expected behaviour (it isn’t clear to my from your post what exactly is the problem). Thanks 🙂

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Is it possible to use the Wii-mote ?
I can connect the Wii-mote fine via Bluetooth under Linux, but is is possible to use it as a joystick under FS-UAE?

Or will I have to connect it as an HID device and map the buttons to keys then set up the key mappings in FS-UAE?

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FrodeSolheim on 2014-01-30 at 21:37 said:

Hi, last time I checked, when I connected a Wiimote to my Linux box it registered as some kind of hybrid device. There was a joystick device (which some buttons where mapped too), but the dpad sent cursor key events, and “A” sent a mouse click I think.

In order to make it work well (easily) with FS-UAE, the device should ideally just present itself as a single joystick HID device, and then you would use the Launcher joystick config tool (preferences) to map the buttons.

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Fantastic emulator!
My cd32 died yesterday :/ so i started searching the web for a good emulator (not having any luck in my previous tries earlier…

I almost wept a tear when i noticed the save state-function and the home-button menu. (now I can actually finish some games)

One thing though, (i didn’ find anything on it) but is it possible to connect my cd32-controller via some usb-adapter to my mac? (you know, to get the full retro-feeling 😉 )
If so, are configurations already in place? And which adapter would you recommend?

-Hallvard

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FrodeSolheim on 2013-08-05 at 19:30 said:

Hi, glad you got a good first-impression 🙂 You should indeed be able to use your real CD32 controllers. If you google for it, you’ll find several adapters. I haven’t tried any of those, but what you need is an adapter which:
* Supports all CD32 buttons
* Presents itself as a “standard USB joystick” device to the operating system. I.e. no drivers are needed, and will appear in FS-UAE and FS-UAE Launcher automatically.
You can use the joystick configuration tool which is part of FS-UAE Launcher to correctly map the buttons even if FS-UAE does not have built-in support for a specific adapter – as long as the adapter is implemented as a normal USB gamepad/joystick.

Here is an example of an adapter which looks like it would work great: http://keio.dk/retroadapter.html 🙂

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- Hallvard on 2013-08-06 at 08:21 said:
  
  Thanks for the tips!
  
  But i guess i would miss the “home” button like the ps-button on a playstation controller in order to pull up the side menu, so I have to think on this 😉
  
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FrodeSolheim on 2013-08-05 at 23:57 said:

Here is another adapter which looks like it will work fine: http://www.retronicdesign.com/en/home/ (http://www.retronicdesign.com/en/cd32-joypad-now-supported/).

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Hi !! great Emulator, but is possible to control the mouse by joypad ???

I’ve the xbox360 wireless controller, is possible to configure the right analog stick to control de mouse ???
thanks !!

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FrodeSolheim on 2013-05-15 at 21:47 said:

Hi, this is not supported yet, but it is something I would like to see as well -so it may be supported later 🙂

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- Marco_Zool on 2014-02-04 at 03:16 said:
  
  Hi !!!
  
  It’s possible to map joypad with left and right mouse button ??
  
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Hello, I’m really happy to see such well made project. Hmm, I have a question. The problem is that i want to play Settlers with my friend,and so we have to, you know, configure somehow those two mice.
So is there any way to do that, or something which will allow us to play it?

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FrodeSolheim on 2012-11-27 at 20:05 said:

Yes and no! FS-UAE does not currently support multiple mice on the same computer (this may be supported in the future though). Another feature that is up-coming is using the analog stick an a gamepad to control a mouse.

But you can play it with FS-UAE today, but you then need to have two computers and use the net play feature. You can play over LAN, the traffic does not have to go over the Internet.
More information here: http://fengestad.no/fs-uae/launcher-net-play.

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- Willdershin on 2012-11-27 at 22:28 said:
  
  Hmm,well it was my mistake that I didn’t tell you more details about my problem.
  Well we’re playing on separate computers,by using your net-play feature.
  You know,everything runs as planned,configuration is the same,ADFs and other stuff is identical.
  We can’t just get these multiple mice to work.
  Whenever i try to select mouse in two ports,the other mouse is changed to something else(and my friends configuration changed to mine automaticaly).Different configurations don’t work here either.
  Hmm,of course I’m not saying this software is wrong or something,I guess it’s just that I’m configuring something wrong.
  
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  - FrodeSolheim on 2012-11-27 at 22:38 said:
    
    Only the mouse port type is synchronized. You don’t (currently) see what the other player have inserted into the port. I know this is a weakness in the current design because you need to chat and agree on what you will insert in the ports (so you don’t use the same port). The plan is to extend the user interface later, so each player can also see the device the other players have chosen. But it should work just fine…:
    
    Player one should have:
    Mouse – Mouse (or Default (Mouse))
    Mouse – No Host Device
    
    And player two should have:
    Mouse – No Host Device
    Mouse – Mouse (or Default (Mouse))
    
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Hi Frode

Thanks for a superb program. I am using it for mac, but have problems using my joysticks. They are USB-controllers looking like standard Commodore joysticks and are called Competition Pro. I have tried the custom controller configuration, but it does not seem to save settings.

If possible, please send me an e-mail in Norwegian if it is easier to explain how to do it there.

Simen

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FrodeSolheim on 2012-11-23 at 21:10 said:

We sorted out this via e-mail! Also, with the latest development version 2.1.4, joysticks/gamepads are automatically configured as a one-button Amiga joystick if the joystick/gamepad is not recognized.

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Hello,

it is a very nice emulator but i have a problem when i will play a two Player game with two Joysticks. When i will used 2 speedlink competition pro us Joysicks in one 2 Player game like Chaos Engine, Speedball… only one of them works. Both Joystick i can used seperated but not together. I used the Mac Version FS UAE Version.

I hope someone has workable solution for me.

Bye

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FrodeSolheim on 2012-07-05 at 21:38 said:

If you specify input options via the config file, one joystick will be called “Speed-Link Competition Pro” and the other must be specified as “Speed-Link Competition Pro #2” (your joystick names may differ -but the point was … #2). Also, you should be able to configure the input devices from the “F12 Menu” while running FS-UAE.

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Documentation

Keyboard joystick emulation

Adding custom keyboard joystick devices