Dos Controller Recommendations?

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Dos Controller Recommendations?

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I talked in another post of how I was using the Dos version of Zsnes on my friends old 333Mhz Aptiva. Can anyone recommend any Dos compatible controllers?
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Post by AntoineWG »

A 4-button gameport controller will probably be inadequate. Get either a gameport Sidewinder gamepad or a parallel-port-modded SNES controller, both of which are supported natively (or at least used to be, I haven't used the DOS port in quite a while) by ZSNES without extra drivers or keymapping software.
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is it possible to have two or more controllers under zsnes dos?
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tikbalang wrote:is it possible to have two or more controllers under zsnes dos?
Yes.
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how? what controllers can you recommend?
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tikbalang wrote:how? what controllers can you recommend?
Off the top of my head, any gameport gamepad that works in DOS (or when DOS programs are run from Windows at least). Microsoft Sidewinders work well, I had a couple.

How? Plug both of them in, install drivers... but you need two gameports or gameport extension in the controller itself. Then configure them in Config --> Input #1/#2
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Back when I uses DOS the controller I used was the Propad 6
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Post by tikbalang »

i found this (snes to parallel):

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/nintendo/snes-pc.htm

but i am having trouble finding snes pads, only ps1 pads. will psx to parallel work under dos? for at least two controllers? thanks again.
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Post by SquareHead »

You probably cannot find them anymore , but Radio Shack used to have pci cards (shit might have even been isa) that had two extra gameports on it for close to 5 bucks.
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