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Gamepad Companion

Word on the street is that some people are having trouble getting their gamepads to work with certain emulators on MacOSX. So I did a little searching and found GamePad Companion for OSX which allows you to map your gamepad to keyboard or mouse buttons, and even control the mouse cursor with the D-Pad on a gamepad. Cool! This should actually give you even more flexibility than just using a normal gamepad with the software because it’s fully customizable. For instance I would imagine if you are using VisualBoy Advance, you could set four buttons on the controller to do normal game functions, then have an extra one setup as the shortcut to save or load, or maybe take a screenshot. Awesome!

I can’t wait to try VisualBoy Advance on MacOSX… I just found out about it yesterday and downloaded it for the PC. It’s amazing! It emulates the GameBoy Advance, letting you play pretty much any GBA game right on your computer. Click on the picture to the right to see a screenshot of it running while I was writing this post! You can even set it to record a DivX movie of you playing and everything. It has a ton of options. Very impressive. I hope it is as good on the Mac as it is on the PC.

Update
It looks like USB OverDrive could also be used to fix the gamepad problem on OSX for emulators. And some people recommend using it anyway, as a replacement for the sometimes less-than-good drivers some companies use for OSX.

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