problem with recoil controller

betachris_00 · Post by **betachris_00** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:56 am

Hey there.
I recently went out and bought this recoil plug and play controller for my DOS Zsnes. It installed and what not just fine, but when I try to set the keys the buttons don't respond. I noticed that some other people here had similar problems, but I only found two topics, one where the problem was solved by the person who had the problem, and the other I already tried. I quit Zsnes and started it back up without loading a rom. Didn't work. I checked the faq and couldn't find any help there.
I'd really appreciate help with this. None of the buttons respond at all when a game is going, and when I'm in the config menu, only a few of them work, and only if I set the thing to 8 button joystick.

...help?

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:07 am

is it a USB joystick?

betachris_00 · Post by **betachris_00** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:10 am

I don't know. the box says, "plug and play controller" I figured since there was no "controller" in the config menu, joystick was the closest thing.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:27 am

does the end that you plug into the computer a small rectangle?

betachris_00 · Post by **betachris_00** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:28 am

yeah, it plugs into the usb port on the back of my compy. Are you sure there's no way to make it work with DOS? I can't use the windows version.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:49 am

DOS doesn't have USB support, iirc.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:04 am

betachris_00 wrote:yeah, it plugs into the usb port on the back of my compy. Are you sure there's no way to make it work with DOS? I can't use the windows version.

Then you can't use that joystick. as AOL said, DOS doesn't support USB - it lacks the drivers, and if the drivers did exist, the dos version of zsnes wouldn't use them.

betachris_00 · Post by **betachris_00** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:12 pm

Well, shoot.
Thanks anyway. I guess I'll just have to wait until I can get the computer fixed.