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srramasu:

Hi,

I did a big mistake by buying a Saitek SP550 gameport joystick at a local clearout sale (hence cannot return).
My laptop does not have a gameport and the box says that the bloody thing works on 98* srramasu in fine print.
So even though you laugh at my absurd craziness to buy such a think, maybe someone can help me.

Has anyone out there used the same device sucessfully with a Gameport to USB adaptor under windows XP. Please advice if i can buy any additional equipment to solve my problem that will work, or should i through the new joystick that i bought into my attic.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Sri

Minwah:

I have a Gameport > USB adaptor that works great (I don't have the same joystick as you tho, but it should work too).  You should be able to pick one up pretty cheap...

srramasu:


--- Quote from: Minwah on July 07, 2004, 06:54:51 am ---I have a Gameport > USB adaptor that works great (I don't have the same joystick as you tho, but it should work too).  You should be able to pick one up pretty cheap...

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Thanks a million for your advice. I am planning to buy one, buy just wanted to know if anyone has a similar setup so that i dont commit another stupidity again. Just want to know a model of the adaptor, which is sure to work for this joystick before i spend the money on it. Do you know of any which are truly universal in this sense and work with the highest variety of devices.

hunky_artist:

its bizzarre you posting this today.... Ive had mame on my comp for years now, btu havent used it for ages. I used to use it with one of those playstation Namco arcade sticks that i wired into a cheapo gravis gamepad, this was on Windows98

im gonna be building a cabinet this summer, so i dug out mame again (we've changed computers since, and are now on xp)

but my joystick/gamepad hack wont work!!

(I read online that xp doesnt work with with gameports?)

is this true? do i have to go and buy a gameport to usb adaptor? or is there any way to get my arcade stick/gamepad hack working...

(it has the lists for joysticks, gamepads with various button combinations.... but it just wont recognise it as plugged in)

any ideas? thanks :)

Minwah:


--- Quote from: hunky_artist on July 07, 2004, 07:30:00 am ---its bizzarre you posting this today.... Ive had mame on my comp for years now, btu havent used it for ages. I used to use it with one of those playstation Namco arcade sticks that i wired into a cheapo gravis gamepad, this was on Windows98

im gonna be building a cabinet this summer, so i dug out mame again (we've changed computers since, and are now on xp)

but my joystick/gamepad hack wont work!!

(I read online that xp doesnt work with with gameports?)

is this true? do i have to go and buy a gameport to usb adaptor? or is there any way to get my arcade stick/gamepad hack working...

(it has the lists for joysticks, gamepads with various button combinations.... but it just wont recognise it as plugged in)

any ideas? thanks :)

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XP *does* work with gameports...my guess is that you maybe don't have the correct driver installed (?)  FYI my motherboard doesn't have a gameport, but I have a Sound Blaster 16 PCI which has a gameport.  That said, my device (pedals) work much better using the USB adaptor (see this recent related thread: http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=21536).

This is the particular adaptor I have: http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/module.asp?CartID=040707151559925&moduleno=30320&Products=1

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