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Posted: June 20 2006,05:15

So I just soldered up an NES Max Gamepad to a Retrokit (http://www.retrousb.com/nintendo.html). It detects and functions well under Windows XP on my main computer system, but I'm not sure how to make it work under DSL on my laptop. I tried searching around a little here and there, and all the sites I can find just say that HID devices should detect magically and work under Linux. Can someone point me to a better resource, or simply tell me how to make the thing work? I'm mostly interested in making it work in conjunction with Tuxnes. Thanks.

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Posted: July 15 2006,15:22

Bump..... I haven't had much time to look for more documentation between moving and a new job, but I still haven't gotten the thing to work. I'd really like to get it working soon for a trip I'm taking. Thanks for any help you can give.

brianw

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Posted: July 15 2006,16:16

Here is a thread:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....oystick

that points to this wiki for advice.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Enable_Joypad_Support

To get my usb gamepad working I did

sudo modprobe joydev

I used apt-get to install diagnostic and alignment tools just to have them installed.

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Posted: July 15 2006,17:52

Thanks for the info, my NES gamepad is now up and running happily. (That was really simple, guess it doesn't matter that it's a HID device). Anyhow, now my little 233Mhz laptop is a more or less perfect NES emulator (that and all the productive things it can do to).

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Posted: July 15 2006,23:33

Everything is now working great. For anyone else who decides to try to use a Retrozone USB Gamepad (http://www.retrousb.com/nintendo.html) with GTuxNES.....

I opted to add the insmod joydev line to /opt/bootlocal.sh
Then I used jstest to figure out what the buttons on the pad where...
Then I mucked with the remap joystick field to determine what needed to go where...
The proper configuration is 1:B1,B0,B3,B2,B8,B10,B11,B9

Just figured I should share my results, in case anyone else was needing assistance on the same thing.

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