2 separate controllers on 2 game ports

[nortexoid]

i, like most people, have two game ports - one on the motherboard, one on the sound card...

i have reason to believe that if i hooked up another gameport controller to the mainboard gameport it would not work, or not allow me to play two players simultaneously (i.e. thru a rom emulator) - is this correct?

do i have to purchase a specific dual port game card for this?...or am i completely wrong?

 

[Challenger]

My sidewinser gamepad has a port so you can hook up another pad to it and it supports multiplayer games so I use it that way.

 

[nortexoid]

so u have two controllers?..

do u haev a gameport on your mobo and soundcard?...if so, can u hook up one controller to the mobo and one to the soundcard and tell me if it works...

i'll give u a kiss..

 

[Challenger]

Just on sound card IMHO onboard sound is terrible love my X-Gamer

 

[nortexoid]

no, i wasn't talking about onboard sound...

i want to know whether it's possible to use two joysticks for multiplayer purposes on the mobo gameport and soundcard gameport simultaneously...

i'm under the impression that only one will work at a time unless i purchase a dedicated multi port game card.

 

[Adrian Tung]

Theoretically, you could get both of them to work if you set them to two different addresses, i.e. Port 1 Address: 0x0201 and Port 2 Address: 0x0209. That's how the old Thrustmaster game card with 2 game ports worked.


atwl

 

[ApacheXMD]

i don't think most people have a game port on their mobo
that only comes with onboard sound and most prefer not to have that...
you sure that's not just serial port you're lookin at?

-patchy

 

[MGMorden]

Apache, though most prefer no onboard sound, most motherboards these days come with them so many, many people here actually have the ports. Just a thought though, why not just use USB? Plug one joystick into the currently working gameport and another (or even both of them) into USB and they'll all show up. I've done this with my Thunderpad Digital (gameport), cheap MS sidewinder pad (USB), and my Logitech ForceFeedback (USB). I've also got an Interact Raider digital sitting on the shelf but it doesn't get used much . If you don't want to go the USB route then the MS pads do have the pass-thru connector for daisy chaining as Challenger mentionded, and I've heard that the Logitech Digital pads that work off of the gameport can use the y-adpator so that you can plug in two and they'll both be recognized.

 

[Noriaki]

Get the 2nd (or both) on USB.

Gameports are a pain in the ass, theoretically if you enabled onboard sound and installed drivers for both the onboard sound and "offboard" sound, you might be able to get two. You would have to change the I/O range for one of them, and I'm not sure if that would work or not...

 

[nortexoid]

oh yeah....totally forgot i had to enable onboard sound to get the gameport to work...

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidiot...

oh well, no worries...

i would get another joystick that was USB if i was to buy another one, though was just gonna use a friend's since he already has one, but it's gameport...

which gamepad is good for FPS games?...one that can give mouse-like precision...