Info wanted on Creating a Virtual HID Devices (keyboard, joystick, mouse)

[dsyoungblood]

I am creating a USB device for input in Arcade emulation and 3D first person shooters. What I want to do is create a device that can show up a a generic HID device and be read by a minidriver application to output indistingishable from a physical keyboard, mouse, or joystick.

I believe that under windows 2000/xp it will require directx programming.  I know the belkin nostromo speedpad and the claw controllers use something similar to this. The usb encoder chip I am using has 256 bytes of memory and for some of the advanced features such as macros, it will require the host to do this.

My area of expertice is assembly programming that is used in the encoder. If someone can point me to sorce code that would get me going in the right direction  on the host side it would really be appreciated.

[SirPoonga]

I'd suggest checking the USB.org forums.