hi how can i play dosbox with controller ?

danielshukron

its just giving me the keyboard

Dragu

danielshukron
The answer is the very performant keymapper in Dosbox.
You can call it with Ctrl+F1 from inside the game and change it to adapt to your controls.
And the best, if you have as me a dual control configuration, you can map second player controls to the first player.
As this I use in alot of games the second player joystick for first player mouse. A lot of dos games need it.
Now if you are more comfortable with the keymapper you can edit the file xxxxx.map directly.
But first step is to be sure for making individual controls per game and this start from the configuration file.
So, in all of your dos game folders xxxxx(never over 8 characters).pc you must copy an individual dosbox.cfg
configutation file from the standard dosbox.conf.
Because this is the only way for individual keymapper files. As in dosbox.cfg you have a line : mapperfile=xxxxx.map that you must edit for the name, best taking the folder (game) name.
Both file needed in every xxxxx.pc folder are dosbox.cfg and dosbox.bat for the starting instructions.
In dosbox.cfg may be also some special instructions in the autoexec section if you must mount cd's or virtual disks.

danielshukron

Dragu thank you it was very helpfull

another question
can i map one game with diffrent conttrols ?

Dragu

danielshukron
For this reason it is necessary to copy dosbox.conf to every game folder xxxxx.pc and rename it dosbox.cfg.
Anyway, most of my dos games have all different controller configurations.
Now, as I told before, the name of the keymapper you give it in dosbox.cfg, and this keymapper filename xxxxx.map
will be memorized in the individual game folder from every game, and as such changing the controller file to the mapping of this game. If no dosbox.cfg file exists in the folder xxxxx.pc, dosbox will take the standard dosbox.conf and no individual configuration for games are possible.