i am new to all this and i downloaded my first game which was chaos engines, but ill get straight to the point. I have a microsoft sidewinder and the dosbox recognizes it in a seperate window however in the game there is no settings to switch it to joypad instead of keyboard. So my question being, are there just a few of the games that do not recognize a joypad at all or is there any where in the dosbox where i can set them to recognize it?? when the game is up and its running the intro/demo i can press any button on joypad and it brings it to the main menu but after that i can only use keyboard. Any information is greatly appreciated :cheers:

Try using JoyToKey:

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA016823/jo...ey/english.html

Works with pretty much every game. :ok: