help with mame and gamepad

[CrazyOleg]

I have a cheapo gravis gamepad pro (usb), and after searching these forums i still cant figure out how i can get it to work with mame.  Anyone know how to configure the controls and to get mame to recognize it?

[TalkingOctopus]

First you have to enable joystick input.

In commandline mame, edit to mame.ini to read:

### Input device options ###
joystick                1

The mame.ini can be created by running mame.exe -cc

If you are using mame32, there is a similiar option that needs to be checked in one of the config menus.  

Then once in a game, press tab to remap your keys.

[CrazyOleg]

thankS! sorry for the noob question but i guess i wasnt looking in the right place.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!