Hello to all. I bought Sensible of soccer 96/97 but I'm not very happy playing with the keyboard. I looked at dos.box settings but there is no option to set the joystick for 1 player. So how do I play with the joystick? also can you tell me if the Speedlink Competition PRO Extra USB joystick would be good for SWOS?

thank you so much

Try using the DOSbox keymapper to set keyboard functions to the joystick.

does not work

I don't think you can get a joystick to work with the PC version, at least i never have.
You are better off emulating the superior Amiga version.

That's a tautology.

Can you perhaps explain why not?

I've tried interacting in dosbox configurations before, but for single player you can only select the keyboard and change the keys. The joystick can be used as an option but only for two players

Try Joy2Key: https://joytokey.net/en/

This is to remap keyboard functions to the joystick and vice versa.

thank you but unfortunately for me that video is too complicated. Isn't there a patch for SWOS compatible with the version of the game downloaded here from GOG, which allows you to play single player with the joystick? I also saw joy2key, but I understood that it is a software that provides a trial period, after which it becomes paid.

Did you press CTRL + F1 during gameplay?
It will open the DOSBox Keymapper, you can then bind any Keyboard Key to any Gamepad Button.
You just select a key and bind to a button, that's all (don't forget to "Add" each binding and save before exiting).
If I remember correctly, Sensible Soccer just use 1 key for kicking and 4 arrow keys. So you select the key for kicking (I don't remember if it's "space" or "ctrl"), , select "Add" and then press any gamepad button. Repeat the process with each 4 arrow keys with its corresponding directional button in your gamepad. After finished, save your configuration and it's done.