Posted June 08, 2011
I ran into a peculiar issue. I just finally got a joystick again after a long time (CH Products Flightstick Pro - love it!), and while the stick works perfectly otherwise DOSBox just doesn't want to recognize the hatswitch in-game. This I find very odd because it does recognize the hatswitch directions when I try to map it to particular keys via DOSBox itself, but when I go back into the game nothing ever happens when I try to use it.
So I started to look at other games as well like Descent 1&2. Both of them also work fine with the joystick, but can't make use of the hatswitch even though I'm able to use the exact profile for the game. Trying to map the damn thing within those games doesn't work one bit. But the thing obviously works outside of DOSBox: Descent 3 and Freespace have no problems working with it. Being able to strafe up and down with the hatswitch is almost essential in the Descent series.
Obviously it's some issue with DOSBox itself. Is there a way to fix this issue? I know I probably could work around the issue with something like Xpadder, but that'll be my last resort if there's nothing else I can do.
So I started to look at other games as well like Descent 1&2. Both of them also work fine with the joystick, but can't make use of the hatswitch even though I'm able to use the exact profile for the game. Trying to map the damn thing within those games doesn't work one bit. But the thing obviously works outside of DOSBox: Descent 3 and Freespace have no problems working with it. Being able to strafe up and down with the hatswitch is almost essential in the Descent series.
Obviously it's some issue with DOSBox itself. Is there a way to fix this issue? I know I probably could work around the issue with something like Xpadder, but that'll be my last resort if there's nothing else I can do.
Post edited June 08, 2011 by mistermumbles
This question / problem has been solved by JKing