glashoppah: How do I make something into a question? I can't see a checkbox or any other way to create a question.

glashoppah: I have a modern joystick and have connected it via USB to the Mac. All the basic functions are supported "out of the box" just nice as pie, including the hat. I however wish to customize the joystick support (as I did many years ago in Descent). However, the joystick definitions seem to be "hard coded" no matter what the in-game customization says. That is, even if I *delete* the definitions for the hat buttons, they still function. This makes remapping them to keyboard commands (with Mac Joystick Mapper) impossible, as the keys simply chord with the hard-coded hat defs that I can't seem to remove.

My question is this - where can I find the "real" definitions for the control behavior so I can modify them? I don't see what I'm looking for in any of the directories the app created on my hard drive.

korell: If you didn't set it to a question when you made the thread then you can't set it as one afterwards.korell: How are you playing Descent 1 and 2? Via DOSBox (as provided by the GOG installer) or via a source port such as DXX-Rebirth (which is highly recommended)?

There are also programs you can use to remap all kinds of controllers, such as GlovePIE. Might be worth a look if you are having difficulties getting it to work natively.

glashoppah: I tried making a new post and still did not see, when making a brand new post, how to mark it as a question. Which was... my question. :)

Anyway, I'm using the GOG installer only. I'm thinking the problem may be in the Boxer DOSBox wrapper, which has "joystick emulation", however I don't seem to be able to turn it off. I already have a joystick remapper. I just need to kill this lame default joystick def that's hidden in the emulation and interfering.

korell: When you create a new topic there tick box to mark as a question is beneath the subject line. See my screenshot attached. If that isn't there for you then it might be an issue with your browser.

Just realised you are on a Mac (oops, I didn't spot that before). I'm a Windows guy so I don't know how Boxer works. That said, there is a Mac version of DXX-Rebirth, so I'd give that a try if I were you. It is a source port that is faithful to the original by being vanilla, no tweakings of the game except for a few bug fixes.

Here is the link: http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/download-dxx-rebirth/

glashoppah: I have discovered the root of the issue: Dosbox remaps axis 3 and 4 to output the same data as axis 1 and 2 on my joystick. So no matter what configs I choose, this underlying behavior is hammering me. I have figured out how to use the Dosbox "mapper" file and have built a file that will fix this, however I do not know how to feed Boxer the mapper file so that Dosbox will behave properly. I can create a config line in the conf file (prelaunch, I'm guessing) that adds a "mapperfile" location, but I am not sure what the root directory is assumed to be for the file. Nothing I've tried has worked, and Boxer is giving me no errors to work with.