Spectrum Emulator with definable joystick buttons?

matalog

Hi Everyone,

I'm new here, this is a great resource on the World of Spectrum!

I have downloaded 3 spectrum emulators, all I really want to do is play games and savestate, not edit, disassemble or manipulate games at the moment.

I have Zero, ZX32 and Zxspectrum4 and none of these allow me to define which buttons on a joypad control the direction. The problem is, in modern joypads, that feel more comfortable in the hands, as far as windows is concerned, the d-pad controls POV Hat and not x and y axes (the left joystick on the pad controls the x and y). I like to use the d-pad to play games.

Other emulators I have for NES, SNES and Arcade for example (FCEUX and Snes 9x, and MAME), allow me to define which buttons are up, down, left, right and fire(s), whereas the 3 spectrum emulators i have mentioned only take windows understanding of the x and y axes and some accept any fire button, some accept a particular fire button.

Does anyone know of a Spectrum emulator that is easy to use like Zero and ZX32 and allows the user to define which buttons on the pad are up, down, left and right?

Thanks for any help,

Matt.

Timmy

I wonder if you really need a dedicated Spectrum emulator to allow you to do that.

Perhaps you should look for something like JoyToKey (or something similar), where you can remap your joystick to standard keys. Then it doesn't really matter which emulator you're going to use.

PS. Still, I would recommend you to look out for other emulators too. I personally use other emulators than the ones you named.

matalog

Timmy,

You are absolutely correct! That has allowed me to do exactly what I wanted. Thanks for answering.

I was happy with Zero, until i played Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and couldn't get it not to play tape loading sounds during the levels. Then I got ZX32 and it ran Indiana Jones correctly.

Could you recommend an emulator that runs games correctly, allows savestate and doesn't require you to work out which Spectrum version the games you're trying to load (I have .z80, .tzx or .tap files mainly) should run on? I have a Windows 8 system.

Thanks again,

Matt.

chernandezba

With ZEsarUX you can redefine joystick buttons.
ZEsarUX runs on Linux, Mac and Windows, but joystick support is only on Linux version

harriusherbartio

Please see other thread "Re.Game Controls with Spectaculator" which covers some of this territory briefly at least

GReW

Spin supports mapping joystick buttons to spectrum keypresses.

Timmy

matalog wrote: »

Could you recommend an emulator that runs games correctly, allows savestate and doesn't require you to work out which Spectrum version the games you're trying to load (I have .z80, .tzx or .tap files mainly) should run on? I have a Windows 8 system.

I'm not sure if such an emulator exists. Most game files don't store whether a game is 48K or 128K.

The easiest way is probably to start at default 128K mode and then switch if it doesn't work.

I personally use ZXSpin the most but it might not be the most user-friendly emulator.

Perhaps someone else can help.

Antiriad2097

Is the solution to this problem not to use a front end like Gamebase?
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/GamebaseZX/