Might try disabling UAC and running as an admin. Did you install in a directory outside of Program Files as an admin?

If no joy try disconnecting from the internet and temporarily disable your firewall. Some firewalls can block disk writes if the game.exe / setup.exe is not a trusted program.

Nothing i see that it cant detect my joypad at all

I just tried it with my USB XBox controller. I had to remap the buttons but it works fine. Must not recognize your particular controller.

Did you have the game shut down when you ran setup? Did you also remap the keys when you selected joypad in setup?

Edit: I lost my remaps and joypad selection after I shut the game down. Realized I had not run the setup.exe as an admin but simply clicked the setup icon on the Treasure Adventure Game menu. Right-clicking the icon and running as an admin saved the settings.

I gave up and using the keyboard instead thanks anyway.

I have a similar problem. When logged in as myself It's not able to detect my 360 controller. My account has full administrative rights, I select Run as Administrator in the setup.exe properties, but i'm not able to select the joypad. Says it isn't detected

Now, when I actually login as Administrator I go to the setup and am able to change to joypad. Not sure why my user account isn't able to change the controller configuration since I have full administrative rights.

Windows 7 64-bit
Xbox 360 wireless receiver and controller

Yeah, a month after install, the game suddenly got massive slowdown and became unplayable, forcing me to use fullscreen mode, which solved the problem. Then the joypad stopped working and the game could no longer detect it, and I wasted too much time trying to fix it. Even old WIn 95 games have less compatibility issues than this. This game just sucks.

I had the same problem until I went to Windows Control Panel->Game Controllers->Advanced, and configured my gamepad to be the default for older games. This is on WinXP, not sure about other versions.

Another option is to configure TAG to respond to keyboard input. Then, configure the gamepad to emulate keypresses using a free tool called JoyToKey. That works great!

Actually, I've been trying to get TAG to engage J2K since I installed it. LOve the game, but the precision platforming bits are nasty on a keyboard.

I cant get my XBox pad to work in game, with Joytokey?? I have the setup set to keyboard, and I can even reconfigure it with my Controller, so I know I have J2K set up correctly.

In game only the dpad works, and then only in the title screen, after that I have to use the keyboard...

Any suggestions?

Just tried this with Xpadder also. Same result. WTF

It took over a year to answer this question but that average in gog world where help is as slow as the cpu were in those days but thanks for the solution maybe i can finaly get off the dust of my virtual shell and try to play the game.

I know, but I didn't want to leave anyone hanging since i figured it out.

I hope Darvond's solution works for others, but it causes the game to be very slow for me. In the end, what I did was map the controls to keyboard and then use my gamepad's software to map the gamepad to the keyboard commands. Did this way back many months ago and it still works perfectly, no slowdown.