Hi Darren.....remember me? IIRC I repaired a Q-bert sound board for you some years ago.
Heh....anyway, I believe the gameport driver is part of the OEM software that came with the soundcard. It might not be in the bare bones device driver. Maybe get another card that has its original cd with it?

Actually I don't remember you... Are you sure you have the right Darren?
The only Q*Bert item I had and still have is a complete control panel gathering dust.
Ok, I think I've gotten farther than I have in the past. After "Auto Detect" The pad and all the buttons work in "Microsoft SideWinder Game Pad Properties"(See image).
All except when I press mode, "Game Controller Error" a box pops up. It says, "Your Game Controller is not connected correctly." "Please verify that it is plugged into your computer."
After a half hour of messing with that the light on the controller went off. So I went back to Control Panel > Game Controllers where I found that the status had changed to "Not Connected".
So I clicked "Add" and highlighted "Microsoft SideWinder (Auto Detect)" again and clicked "OK", only to get a "Gameport Occupied" pop up that said, "The Controller Microsoft SideWinder game pad currently resides on port for Creative. Please remove it or assign the device to another port."
So I removed it, and highlighted "Microsoft SideWinder (Auto Detect)" again, but ths time all that shows up in the "Game Controllers" box is "Microsoft SideWinder 3D Pro" "Not Connected"

So if I can get it back the question would then be how to get it working with WolfMAME 106, which it wouldn't do when the system did recognize it.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.