normal joystick instead of pad on cd32?

[c64_d0c]

is it possible to use a normal 2 button joystick, instead of cd32 joypad on cd32 machine?...

i am asking becouse i can get hold of an cd32 but there is no joypad controller included...

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[Matt_H]

It should work, but if the games use any buttons other than Red and Blue, you probably won't get too far in them.

[Chain]

Lots of games needs also other buttons, but some are playable just with a stick.

Go for it!

[Tomas]

You could also get a sega megadrive controller i think, which should be fairly easy to get hold of. I believe alot of games support the buttons on it, but i am not 100% sure there.

[foleyjo]

For a while I was without a CD32 controller and I found some games work fine without it. Things like superfrog where u only need one button.
However some games I couldnt do anything without a CD32 controller. Darkseed was one of these. The cursor wouldnt move at all no matter what i tried. Not even using mouse helped

[amigakit]

It is possible to use normal joysticks with some games but a lot use the extra buttons on the CD32 pad.

If you need a new official Amiga CD32 pad we have them in stock.

[Lonewolf10]

Yeah a joystick will work for most CD32 games.


Also, you can use the CD32 controller on any Amiga game that requires a joystick. Just simply use the d-pad for the directions instead of the joystick, and the red button in place of the fire button. I find this is just great for platform games, especially as I have become so accustomed to using pads now that I actually hate using joysticks!

(I played pretty much all my Spectrum games using a joystick back in the early 90's)


Regards,
Lonewolf10