Posted April 28, 2010
Have tried this in the game specific forum but no answers.
Just bought Megarace, and eventhough some dislike it, our family has fond memories on the Packard Bell with this game.
Anyway, as some may know, Megarace 1 (MR1) came out as a DOS game in 1994. Megarace 2 (MR2) came out a few year(s) later, and was a very different game, albeit with better support. MR1 requires an initial set up, performed through a file (INSTDOS), in which it allows you to choose memory, checks out your CDROM and choices on using mouse and joystick. After you've chosen these things, I assume it saves them in some config file, THEN prior to playing the first round, you have to choose keyboard, mouse or joystick again when you're choosing which car you want. After that, in the old DOS days, all you had to do was play therafter.
However, in GOG download, the INSTDOS never runs, and you can't choose joystick. Thus, only keyboard or mouse will work and are both a little squirrelly. I've run the INSTDOS, and it saves a .bat file (to the wrong directory) and even after moving this to the GOG folder, no joystick. In fact, during the install, the message is " there is no joystick connected". The setup goes on to say that " i don't recognize the way your system keeps time"....and I don't know if that's important.
It gets better. In MR2, the joystick is recognized, and sort of works, but car control is horrible. Keep in mind that both MR1 and MR2 are running under the same DosBox, and only MR2 allows the joystick.
I've tried the following: USB joystick, analog joystick, USB gamepad,2 different sound cards with gameports, tweaking the joystick funtions in DOsBox, multiple joysitck/sound card drivers, several forced hardware scenarios and still.....NOTHING.
DOes anybody know about these older games and how to bring the joystick online? It's really hard to play without it, and certain that someone knows how to do this.....I just have no idea.
System is: core 2 duo 5200 at 2.5GHZ, 4 GB of 800MHZ ram, Asus (ati chipset) 5750 with 1 GB DDR5, running XP PRO
Thanks in advance!
Just bought Megarace, and eventhough some dislike it, our family has fond memories on the Packard Bell with this game.
Anyway, as some may know, Megarace 1 (MR1) came out as a DOS game in 1994. Megarace 2 (MR2) came out a few year(s) later, and was a very different game, albeit with better support. MR1 requires an initial set up, performed through a file (INSTDOS), in which it allows you to choose memory, checks out your CDROM and choices on using mouse and joystick. After you've chosen these things, I assume it saves them in some config file, THEN prior to playing the first round, you have to choose keyboard, mouse or joystick again when you're choosing which car you want. After that, in the old DOS days, all you had to do was play therafter.
However, in GOG download, the INSTDOS never runs, and you can't choose joystick. Thus, only keyboard or mouse will work and are both a little squirrelly. I've run the INSTDOS, and it saves a .bat file (to the wrong directory) and even after moving this to the GOG folder, no joystick. In fact, during the install, the message is " there is no joystick connected". The setup goes on to say that " i don't recognize the way your system keeps time"....and I don't know if that's important.
It gets better. In MR2, the joystick is recognized, and sort of works, but car control is horrible. Keep in mind that both MR1 and MR2 are running under the same DosBox, and only MR2 allows the joystick.
I've tried the following: USB joystick, analog joystick, USB gamepad,2 different sound cards with gameports, tweaking the joystick funtions in DOsBox, multiple joysitck/sound card drivers, several forced hardware scenarios and still.....NOTHING.
DOes anybody know about these older games and how to bring the joystick online? It's really hard to play without it, and certain that someone knows how to do this.....I just have no idea.
System is: core 2 duo 5200 at 2.5GHZ, 4 GB of 800MHZ ram, Asus (ati chipset) 5750 with 1 GB DDR5, running XP PRO
Thanks in advance!
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