[HowTo] Use Gamepads to control MediaPortal

[waeberd]

yes Moltas, that works!
The gamepad is just an additional/complementary way of controlling MP!

Daniel

[waeberd]

sickboy,

Originally Posted by sickboy

if I launch the games directly, I have no problems. Except one game Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. I can't exit this game.

well, I send a "kill task" / "close task" to the launched game. This is not super-clean and it should be tough to get it working on games that do not allow <ALT>-<F4> or task-killing....
Not sure if there is a solution for these games!

Originally Posted by sickboy

Another thing, I played a bit with the settings, the games and my pad, and MP lost the settings twice.

Backup the MediaPortal.xml... I remember a long time ago that there were situations where you could get an empty 0-byte xml. Is that true in your case?

Thanks,

Daniel

[Slyder0244]

works great glad this made it into mp makes it easier when you are ready to play games and you don't have to switch back 'n forth as much

i also use a usb adapter for my ps2 controller waeberd i use the one from smartjoy that can be found at http://www.lik-sang.com/list.php?nav...b9e30ab00bc0a1 it works great i love it for playing with emulators i had tried some usb controllers a couple of years ago but they all worked horribly one thing i wondered about doing is getting a wireless ps2 controller and then using it with the adapter i think that would work pretty well and plus it would be wireless

[waeberd]

Slyder,

I use the ps2/N64 combo adaptor from lik-sang. Bought 2 original N64 controllers from e-Bay for the Project64 emulator :-)
Works great indeed! No drivers needed (XP), pads are registered as "normal" windows gamedevices etc.

The only problem is - I have no time to play the fantastic game collection! :-)

[tkortell]

Thanks for all the sugestions people I think I will go with the logitech cordles cause I just hate wires

Is there any good PS or PS2 emulators and ROMs out there? Where can I find thees?

[waeberd]

Originally Posted by tkortell

Is there any good PS or PS2 emulators and ROMs out there? Where can I find thees?

* PS: check out ePSXe!
* PS2: only experimental emus around

ROMs? See elsewhere.... :-), you'll rather need ISO-Image files for PS-games!

Daniel

[sickboy]

Hi Daniel,

Originally Posted by waeberd

sickboy,

well, I send a "kill task" / "close task" to the launched game. This is not super-clean and it should be tough to get it working on games that do not allow <ALT>-<F4> or task-killing....
Not sure if there is a solution for these games!

For me that's no problem, because it's just this single game.

Originally Posted by waeberd

Backup the MediaPortal.xml... I remember a long time ago that there were situations where you could get an empty 0-byte xml. Is that true in your case?

No, MP lost only the settings of the "Kill-Combo". All the other settings were still there. So who knows what I did wrong. I was not able to reproduce this. :roll:

bye, sick

[tkortell]

tkortell wrote:
Is there any good PS or PS2 emulators and ROMs out there? Where can I find thees?


* PS: check out ePSXe!
* PS2: only experimental emus around

ROMs? See elsewhere.... , you'll rather need ISO-Image files for PS-games!

Daniel

Ohh, thanks for pointing that out for me Daniel I'm quite new in this emulator stuff. I'll try to find some images then.

btw, does it work with the original game to??

[waeberd]

btw, does it work with the original game to??

yeah! ePSXe can run Playstation-CDs from your CD-Drive!
There are some issues with a few copy-protected games, but usually, it runs very nicely!

Enjoy,

Daniel

[sickboy]

Originally Posted by tkortell

btw, does it work with the original game to??

Yes, of course you can use the originals. It's even better to use them, because the "legal illigal thing"