Old school SNES joypad seems to work, but doesn't...

Fabrizio23 · Post by **Fabrizio23** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:59 pm

As I was cleaning my house, I found my old school SNES joypad again. The nice pad, with lots of 'flying hours', playing Mario World. Man I loved that game and the pad. In fact, I want to use it again!

Anyway, a few years ago, I modded the pad so it could be connected to my parallel port and joystick port (if I'm not mistaking this was for extra power). I can remember, I got everything to work, including using the pad for playing my favourite game on my PC using the great emulator ZSNES.
Now, I'm trying to get it to work again. I don't know why, but someting is wrong.

I have downloaded the joypad driver "Directpad 6" and installed this one. As I am looking in the Game Pad section of my control panel in XP (now the driver calls itself the "Psxpad"), I can see that XP responds to every button I press on the joypad assuming that the whole hardware thing is working properly.

Now running ZSNES I am trying to configure the joypad to work as the first input device. So selecting the Keyboard/Joypad and then clicking the "Set keys" button to link every direction and the ABXY etc buttons to the correct ones on the pad. As soon as I click the "Set keys" button, ZSNES freezes, even the snow in the background gets sticked to the background. Only thing I can do next is to kill the app and start all over.
BTW, using my keyboard, everything works fine. I can adjust the keys and all....

Is there some setting I missed?

Hope you can help me get back to playing my favourite game.
Grtz.

PHoNyMiKe · Post by **PHoNyMiKe** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:44 am

I used to use psxpad, but later changed to DirectPad Pro years ago. it supports up to like five controllers. the install isn't the easiest in thw world, you tell it how many controllers you have, and continue. I think there's two popups saying unsigned driver from xp, but go past those. try it out.

declan · Post by **declan** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:09 am

You could have modded your pad for an older driver (that may use different parrallel port pins for clock/latch etc.)

I would try "remoding" your controller and get the coresponding driver for it.

Google is your friend...... "SNES controller on PC"

Kajuru · Post by **Kajuru** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:56 am

PPJoy allows you to chose from different snespad schemes.

blargg · Post by **blargg** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:38 am

There's always Retrozone's USB-to-SNES adaptor, if all else fails.

Fabrizio23 · Post by **Fabrizio23** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:49 pm

Hi all,

Thank you so much for your suggestions!
I think it wasn't working because of a conflicting driver. Uninstalled the old one (NTPAD) and now with Psxpad it works great!

Thanks again!!