Need help desperately

[DrAaron]

I purchased a fix-it Felix jr arcade game last year for my sons' birthdays and the hard drive has failed. I was able to retrieve the game from the original hard drive. The previous computer ran windows xp and I have installed it on a computer that runs windows xp as well. The computer recognizes the xin-mo controller however when the game starts a window saying "no joystick attached" pops up. I am not very tech savvy and was hoping someone could help me save this game for my sons. Thanks.

[mahuti]

I don't know anything about the game to help. Off the top of my head I wonder: does the xin -mo work in anything else? 

Was there an event that caused the machine to stop working (like a lightning strike)?

[ark_ader]

I purchased a fix-it Felix jr arcade game last year for my sons' birthdays and the hard drive has failed. I was able to retrieve the game from the original hard drive. The previous computer ran windows xp and I have installed it on a computer that runs windows xp as well. The computer recognizes the xin-mo controller however when the game starts a window saying "no joystick attached" pops up. I am not very tech savvy and was hoping someone could help me save this game for my sons. Thanks.

First off, where did you get the game originally?  Sounds like it is missing some files. Like joy to key.  Then it reminded me of Howard's awesome wrapper.  I think this thread will help.  I don't know if you will need a new key for the game, if it is the same one, I'm thinking it is....

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,135805.msg1525968.html#msg1525968

[DeLuSioNal29]

Easiest way:
Try it with just the computer keyboard first.  Note which keys do what.  If it works just buy an ipac2 which is a keyboard encoder.  http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html

A bit harder:
It's probably not set up for joystick inputs.  You'll need to figure out which config file has the joystick=on or similar type option.

DeL