No joystick with Ghost Bear - SOLVED!!

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RJ'sDad
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No joystick with Ghost Bear - SOLVED!!

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Greetings;

Whilst looking for something new to do, I decided to pull out some of my old gaming software & see if I could
get them to run on Windows 7. After a lot of web research, I got all of my old Star Trek games to run just fine
(most of them are at least 15+ years old), albeit with a good deal of fancy tweaking; so I figured I'd give my
MechWarrior stash a try.

MW3 and 4 (plus expansions & goodies) installed and ran just fine, as does MechComander 2. But for the life
of me, I could not get MW2 to do a bloody thing. I figured if it didn't like Win 7, I'd try an older system; and with
patches got it to work on a second hd with Xp Pro SP2. I had the same headaches with Ghost Bear and Mercs,
then I discovered MechVM and bam! Got both to install and run on XP Pro; then brought the whole shootin'
match over to my Win 7 drive & now I don't have to swap my boot drive when I want to play. MechVm got
everything to work- well, almost everything.

MW2 & Mercs run just fine with my Sidewinder 8-button joystick, but Ghost Bear just won't have it. In order to
use a joystick I have to run GB under DOSBox and settle for a 2-button stick; which is ok, but I'd really like to
have all the same buttons mapped for all 3 games. I have tried to troubleshoot this, but nothing has worked.
All I have are the attached error messages. If anybody could help, I'd be most grateful. I've flat run out of ideas.
If I need to provide more information, please let me know what you need.

TYIA.....
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Re: No joystick with Ghost Bear - SOLVED!!

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Good Morning All:

As I said earlier:...
but Ghost Bear just won't have it. In order to use a joystick I have to run GB under DOSBox and settle for a 2-button stick; which is ok, but I'd really like to have all the same buttons mapped for all 3 games. I have tried to troubleshoot this, but nothing has worked....
Well, it took awhile but I finally figured it out. After comparing the MechVM installation files with the CD/ROM files, I discovered that - for some reason - MVM wasn't installing all of the configuration files in the giddi &/or giddiwin folders. So I did a copy and paste of the critical files and everything works just like it's supposed to.

To any who even thought of helping, my thanks. While I wouldn't have minded the assistance, It's a lot more satisfying to have slain the beast myself. :D
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Re: No joystick with Ghost Bear - SOLVED!!

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glad to hear you got it!
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