[HowTo] Use Gamepads to control MediaPortal (1 Viewer)

waeberd

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

Daniel
 

waeberd

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sickboy,

sickboy said:
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!

sickboy said:
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

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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?na...60&PHPSESSID=52e23862bac61a9659b9e30ab00bc0a1 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

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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

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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

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tkortell said:
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

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Hi Daniel,

waeberd said:
sickboy,

sickboy said:
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!
For me that's no problem, because it's just this single game.


waeberd said:
sickboy said:
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?

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

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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

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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
 

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