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Not only does BSNES emulate over 8 consoles including the NES, Super NES, and Game Boy, but it does an amazing job at it while providing highly customizable play-including custom controller configurations. To demonstrate how simple this is, we’re going to use the excellent game emulator BSNES. If you’re using a gaming emulator or stand alone game that allows you to customize game inputs to whatever buttons you desire, configuration is just a matter of opening up the appropriate section in the game menus and carefully mapping each button. Configuring Emulators and Games That Allow Custom Button Selections

Bsnes not recognizing controller code#

You don’t need to keep the application on for the controller to work properly with your games, but during the setup process it can be very useful to see what the specific button code for each button is while you’re configuring your emulators and games. This tiny app will put a small white overlay window on your screen that simply reports every button press, whether it’s from a keyboard, mouse, gamepad, or other input device (as seen in the screenshot above). Once you’ve confirmed all the buttons are working and configured properly, it’s quite helpful to run the small AutoHotkey executable ShowOff we listed in the What You Need section. The configuration wizard will walk you through identifying and correctly calibrating each button and joystick. you push up on one of the joy sticks and the axis display goes down and left) you need to click on the Settings Tab and click the configuration button. If you fail to get any input at all, go back to the beginning of this section and download the drivers. If everything is working properly, something should happen when you press each button or move each control stick/directional pad. Clicking Properties pulls up the controller properties for the 360 controller. Clicking on advanced simply allows you to switch between controllers, which in our case isn’t relevant. This will pull up the Game Controllers control panel like so:Īs you can see we’re using the cheaper MadCatz 360 controller for this project. The first thing you want to do is go to the Start Menu and type joy.cpl in the run box. To test out the controller, we have a two prong approach.

Bsnes not recognizing controller drivers#

If, during the following diagnostic tests, it becomes clear that the installation did not go as planned, you can visit the support page for the 360 controller here and download the appropriate drivers for your version of Windows.

Bsnes not recognizing controller install#

Windows should automatically detect and install the drivers for the device and in under 10 seconds the computer will be accepting input from the controller. Plug your controller into an unoccupied USB port on your Windows machine. Installing the Xbox 360 controller should be a pretty painless affair. Installing and Testing the Xbox 360 Controller

Also, we strongly recommend reading through the entire tutorial and checking out the specific applications and games you want to use your Xbox controller with before purchasing anything on the What You’ll Need list as some setups require les configuration than others (effectively reducing the cost for the project to $0 outside the cost of the actual controller).