MAME not recognizing hacked USB gamepad?

[bsktbllmn23]

I hacked a game pad from Amazon, thread here http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=120797.0.

The issue is that Windows sees all the buttons (when touching the wires together since i haven't mounted the buttons yet), but when i get into MAME32 and open any game, hit tab to get to menu, and try and adjust controls, the game pad doesn't register any of the wire touches...

I got frustrated and haven't tried to configure the controllers in my other emulators yet, but MAME is the one that I really wanted to get working.

Any ideas? did i miss something when doing my research and not configure something right? or have i just messed up the game pad?

I did get MALA to recognize the game pad and had it configured to work basically, and since windows recognized all the button presses i just assumed that MAME would work too.

[paigeoliver]

Your gamepad probably isn't working because the default mame configuration has gamepad and mouse control turned off for some ridiculous reason.

[crumptinite]

Have you tried the JoytoKey program? "keyboard emulator for joysticks.
It converts joystick input into keyboard input" I used this for some of my pc games that don't accept controllers. http://joytokey.webs.com/

[capsule]

Yep, very useful for frontends not handling gamepads either (like mGalaxy)

[ark_ader]

Just remap it in Mame.cfg

[CoryBee]

I use Mame32 Plus and to change the configuration of the gamepads under; "OPTIONS" then "DEFAULT GAME PROPERTIES" and finally "CONTROLLERS" tab. Just make sure you have enabled joystick input and that the proper controllers ID is set.