Gravis Gamepad Pro (Gameport) not working, help please.

sephiroth050974 · Post by **sephiroth050974** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:04 am

I have updated the the most current ZSNES (1.51), I have downloaded all the most current drivers from Gravis, I have gone into ZSNES and selected "Gamepad" in the proper spots, I have tested the Gamepad in the "configure screen" via control panel (everything works), and I have tried to assign keyboard values to the Gamepad via Gravis's "Gravis Xperience" program and associated it w/ both the zsnesw.exe & the *.smc file I'm trying to use it on. I have Windows XP also. The Gamepad is set to "Grip".

For all of my trouble so far I have only gotten the "start" button and the "blue" one to work in the game (Ogre Battle).

I started to look @ programs like SNESKey but the main trouble w/ that is most of it is over 10 years old and the emails for support, etc that I have tried, don't work.

Please... I'm just trying to get this silly thing to work as trying to sit and use the keyboard to play just isn't as comfortable as it once seemed to be.

To those that reply, thanks for the help in advance!

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:51 am

Are you trying to use the DOS version in Windows? If so, try the Windows version.

sephiroth050974 · Post by **sephiroth050974** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:27 pm

to the absolute best of my knowledge, I'm running the Windows version of Zsnes. When I recently updated to 1.51 I clicked on the "Win" tab for versions. Is there something else that could be "dos" that you are referring to?

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:16 pm

No. It just seemed kinda suspicious that you were referring to a specific "gamepad" option, which the windows version doesn't have.

Anyway, this may sound silly, but I'd try uninstalling any Gravis drivers or utilities and seeing if Windows has drivers for the controller itself. I figure any drivers that DO exist for it will be rather ancient and kinda screwy on modern versions of Windows. If not, reinstall it but make sure there aren't any Gravis services or background processes running that might be trying to access the controller.

If that doesn't work, well, maybe it's time for an upgrade?

Post by **odditude** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:37 pm

he's using the windows version; you don't typo zsnesw.exe.

turn off the keyboard emulation in xperience. as long as the joystick control panel sees all 10 buttons properly, zsnes should as well.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:00 am

Or, you know, do the sane thing and get a gamepad that doesn't suck ass.

Granas, I thought all those blights on society were dead by now.

Post by **odditude** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:35 pm

Gil_Hamilton wrote:Or, you know, do the sane thing and get a gamepad that doesn't suck ass.

Granas, I thought all those blights on society were dead by now.

i've got two gameport gpps and one usb one still packed up from last time i moved. haven't dreamt of touching them since i got decent usb/ps2 adapters (if it's not obvious by now, i love my dualshocks).