[greatguy]

If you have a gamepad with rumble for pc, please make sure you have done the basic things before actually diving into wierder stuff, both for epsxe and other pc games. I am sure these suggestions will make your games work:-

1) Make sure you have loaded the correct driver for your usb gamepad with vibration. You must have got a cd in your gamepad package with the drivers. If that is'nt so and if I was you, I'll knock the retailers teeth off! Do check out your gamepad properties after installation in the 'control panel' to see if it works properly, else, again, get your baseball bat and pay a visit to the retailer.

2) PLEASE PAY ATTENTION: Max of you people DO NOT go to the OPTIONS menu in the game, and TURN ON VIBRATION. PLEASE!! TURN ON VIBRATION FROM WITHIN THE GAME!! OTHERWISE IT WON'T VIBRATE EVEN IF YOUR DRIVERS ARE LOADED. ONCE GAME LOADED IN EPSXE, GO TO OPTIONS MENU! TURN ON VIBRATIONS FOR YOUR GAMEPAD! Pheww...

Hope these very basic tips will help....

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

im sure people will be interested in a 1 post wonder.

1. the controller must be dinput compatible, Xinput pads are not compatible with dinput force feedback.
2. Controller must be set to Digital/Analogue in the input settings of epsxe
3. the rumble mode should be set appropriate to the type of control, PSX controllers would use the burutter option and dinput would use one of the 4 dinput methods.
4. NOT ALL GAMES HAVE FULLY WORKING RUMBLE IN EPSXE.

 

[One Free Bullet]

I have the Logitech Wireless Rumblepad 2 controller. Do I need the driver installed in order for rumble to work? It rumbles when I push the vibration button, but I haven't figured out how to get rumble on the emulator.

The CD it came with won't open, so maybe I could download the driver from the website?

 

[KrossX]

Indeed, a proper driver is required to have Force Feedback support. It *may* also help to have an updated driver, since it *may* have fixed bugs if there was any.-

Since you'll be using a DxInput driver, use the DX Joy # (# = Number of Controller device? ) options.

Note that ePSXe has troubles with Rumble support in games like FF8. I remember that I made it work with an old controller, but it made the emulator crash... (even Harakiri's plugin crashed, but the rumble worked for a sec =P )

 

[One Free Bullet]

I'll have to try a game with vibration support, see if that works.

Also, I'm trying to enable analog control. Does analog control only work on games that originally supported it, or can I enable it anytime? I tried inputing the controls, but it doesn't seem to work.

 

[KrossX]

Analog only works on games that originally support it. Although, for rumble to work you need to set the Gamepad to Digital/Analog in the ePSXe options.-

Some games that support Analog may still fall back to Digital (dunno why), you can change it while playing by pressing F5.

If you're using Pete's plugin, the ingame pannel shows the current method being used.

 

[One Free Bullet]

Finally got analog control to work. I can now turn it off and on with a push of the analog button on my controller.

I also sort of got rumble to work, although the rumble is very small. Is it better to raise the rumble bar in the driver settings to max, or maybe change the rotors on ePSXe?

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

Kross, don't talk crap, everyone knows that harakiri cannot work with epsxe because epsxe does not have a modular input setup like other emulators.

set the rotors to ramp, some games won't have very strong rumble regardless as the emulator doesn't support rumble in them properly.... one such game is FF8

 

[astle10]

i cant even get my control 2 work at all??? its a ps2 control, and ive plugged it in but nothing is happenin?

 

[Squall-Leonhart]

install the drivers.