Joystick Options 4 SAM

Need your expertise ladies & gentlemen;

I plan to dabble in a little bit of MAME game playing at some stage. Just sorting the roms recently. And it dawned on me the SAM doesn't have a joystick or similair.

So

Are there supported joysticks/joypads for MAME in mind, is it hit or miss or have you got personal information that can help me?

is USB the only solution? not that there is anything wrong with that.

thanks team, any insight is most welcome and appreciated!

@Slayer

the current MAME version available for OS4.0 does not have AmigaInput support !
BUT I guess you can use AmiAny to translate joypad input to keyboard input (works this way with warpSNES).

BTW I have a working USB joypad from "Tech Mobility" model X6-38V (www.techtools.fr) on A1G4/AmigaOS4.1

@Lio

Thanks for the information Lio

@Slayer

I wrote this article about the X-Arcade joystick:

http://www.amigans.net/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=19

@jahc

hmmm, quote doesn't seem to want to work today?

anyway, Jahc, Great review!!!!! And now, I want one!!!!!

thanks for the heads up!

@Slayer
Dunno about MAME-specific joysticks, but the Competition Pro USB (as sold by AmigaKit) works well with OS4.1 on the Sam440, and it has four buttons.

@ChrisH

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sounds like a good option ChrisH, thanks for the choice