Cannot see joystick in FS-UAE Launcher

Hi,

I have a new USB NeoGeo X Arcade Stick that I am trying to ue with FS-UAE.

I can see and configure the joystick in Windows 10 and can test it via joy.cpl.

However, when I launch FS-UAE I cannot see the joystick to configure it - either in the main launcher menu or the joysticks configuration in settings.

I've tried a manually created ini file too but that does not work either.

Any ideas?


Many thanks and Happy Christmas.

[FrodeSolheim]

Please attach FS-UAE.log.txt - and a happy Christmas to you too

Here you go...I have attached both the UAE log and launcher.

Also, found a verion of 2.62 and joystick works fine on that. Upgraded again to 2.82 and it stops working.

Thank you.

[FrodeSolheim]

Hmm, from the log I can see that fs-uae-device-helper works but does not find any joystick:

using fs-uae executable: C:\Users\neila\AppData\Local\fs-uae\fs-uae-device-helper.exe
['C:\\Users\\neila\\AppData\\Local\\fs-uae\\fs-uae-device-helper.exe', '--list']
b'# fs-uae-device-helper 2.8.2 #\r\n## keyboards ##\r\nK: Keyboard\r\n## mice ##\r\nM: Mouse\r\nM: Mouse: Synaptics Pointing Device\r\n## joysticks ##\r\n# SDL_NumJoysticks(): 0\r\n## end ##\r\n'

(The joystick was connected when these logs where generated, right?)

I haven't got any good explanation for why it appears in 2.6.x... but not in 2.8.x...

But you can try this, in FS-UAE Launcher advanced settings, add (using capital letters):

SDL_XINPUT_ENABLED = 0

Then restart FS-UAE Launcher. Does this help?

Hi,

Yes, the joystick was plugged in before starting.

I've tried adding the argument above but no noticable difference I am afraid. Logs re-added just in case, but will revert to 2.62 for now (which still works fine).

Thank you for looking!

[FrodeSolheim]

Strange... FS-UAE gets its joystick list from SDL2, and in your case, SDL2 claims there are 0 joysticks.

Want to try something? Try using 2.8.2, but overwrite SDL2.dll with the older one from 2.6.2...

Ah! That worked!

Thank you

[FrodeSolheim]

Alright, 2.6.2 is bundled with SDL 2.0.3, and 2.8.2 is bundled with SDL 2.0.5. Tempting to say there is a problem with SDL2 then...

Hi there.

Unfortunately this didn't work for me.
In my case I have version 2.4.0 that recognizes my xbox 360 wired gamepad but at least since version 1.8 the gamed isn't found anymore.

I changed the sdl2 library as suggested but the situation didn't change.

[isamu]

Hello FrodeSolheim I realize this is an old thread but I just wanted to chime in and say that I too am having the same issue. Back in the day(a few years ago) the version I was using of FS-UAE immediately acknowledged my gamepad. Now I have three different windows controllers plugged that are working fine in other applications(including WinUAE) but FS-UAE doesn't see them at all. They're all DirectInput devices and I'm running Windows 10 64bit.

Please look into issue Frodde and Happy Holidays my friend

[FrodeSolheim]

@isamu it is possibly you've encountered another bug, which was just recently fixed. Please try http://fs-uae.net/devel/2.9.7dev5/

[isamu]

Originally Posted by FrodeSolheim

@isamu it is possibly you've encountered another bug, which was just recently fixed. Please try http://fs-uae.net/devel/2.9.7dev5/

working now, thanks bud