Using a controller for NES program!! Won't recognize it!

[Keldud7]

I don't know if anyone can help but here's hopin!
I downloaded the NES program...which lets u play nintendo games on your mac. Very kewl. I bought a controller (USB). And I can't figure out how to get it to work. It doesn't recognize it. I downloaded the emulator enhancer and placed it in the application support folder in the library like it tells me to. Still nothin. In preferences, under joysticks, there's nothing related to a controller, just keyboard configuration and a blurb about the enhancer download. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Mikuro]

If you can't get Emulator Enhancer to work, you can probably use USB Overdrive to map your controller's buttons to the key strokes. That's what I do for many emulators.

 

[adambyte]

In order to use a joe-average USB gamepad, the application itself (in your case, your Nintendo emulator) has to have what is called "HID" support... I have no idea what it stands for....

And, although I know of Super Nintendo emulators that support gamepads natively, I don't know any regular NES emulators that support gamepads.... sad.

http://emulation.victoly.com/nintendo/

Oh well. looks like your best bet is using USB overdrive to program the controller.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

HID: "Human Interface Devices" -- covers everything from joysticks to mice to keyboards to graphics tablets to... just about any device meant to be used by humans for interfacing with a computer...