Okay, I had an insatiable urge to play Gunstar Heroes, so I decided to finally install a Genesis emulator on Linux. At first, I went with Gens, as that is what I used on Windows, but I had an interesting joystick problem with that. (btw I have a PSX->USB adapter which I've gotten working perfectly with StepMania, ZSNES, ePSXe, and Mupen64, so its NOT the adapter). When I went into the Gens joystick config, it would ask for up, down, left right, but when I'd hit up, it would register the button for up, skip down, and go right to left. This was odd, I thought, but I just messed with the config file and found out which numbers represented up, down, left and right, and manually put them in. Everything seemed to work, except whenever I hit right, it seems to also trigger down, and when I hit left, it also triggers up. It's pretty hard in Gunstar Heroes to move when you constantly start ducking when you try to move.

Okay, so Gens seems to be a no go, so I try Generator-GTK, which, seems to be working fine. Except, I have another joystick problem here. First off, when I start, it tells me it see's my joystick, so I'm positive I'm in business. Unfortunately, in the Config section, there ISN'T a section for joystick configuration. Just for keyboard mapping, I click on the box, hit my joystick, and nothing happens. I tried playing anyway, and it seems to work, albeit one problem. Start is mapped to the Square button for some reason, and I'm pretty sure Button 1 (should be Square) is mapped to Start. Everything else is how I want it, but I'd like to Have Start be Start. There doesn't seem to be a configuration file for the joystick control, I think it maps it automatically to what it thinks it should be.

Anyone know how to solve either of my problems? I don't mind which one works (although I'd prefer Gens as its a much more advanced emulator) as long as one of them can map the joystick and WORK correctly. Thanks a bunch!