[mythtv-users] N64 Emulation + Joystick

[Jeff Clark]

On May 6, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Johnny Russ wrote:

> Jeff Clark wrote:
>> Based on some advice from this list yesterday, I went out and bought
>> the RumblePad2 joystick controller to  play games via MythGame.  It's
>> just as comfortable and great as everyone said it was.
>>
>> I'm having an issue getting the controller to actually *control*
>> anything in the N64 emulator mupen64plus.
>>
>> I go into input settings, but I can't seem to find where to tell
>> mupen64plus to use a USB controller instead of a keyboard.
>>
>> Does anyone have N64 emulation running on their mythbox with a USB
>> controller?  Is there a better emulator?
>>
>> Jeff
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> I am in the process of getting MythGame setup with a wireless usb
> controller. I had the same problem with Mupen64Plus. You need to use  
> the
> blight input plugin. At first this wouldn't show up for me. I found  
> the
> solution in this thread:
> http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?p=401110#post401110. I was  
> missing
> libsdl-ttf2.0. Installing that fixed things up. The blight input  
> config
> provides a gui that make it really easy to setup the mapping for you
> gamepad. Mupen64Plus was the best emulator I could find. Others will
> know more than me, I haven't even finished setting things up in  
> MythGame.
>

Ha!  As it turns out, I am reading that exact post right now.  I just  
downloaded Blight's, but am trying to figure out how to install it.

Any idea?