Can't get any Joystick to work with my Mac + vice 64 emulator - Help and Troubleshooting https://www.icode.com/community/help-and-troubleshooting/cant-get-any-joystick-to-work-with-my-mac-vice-64-emulator/ iCode Discussion Board en-US Thu, 21 May 2026 10:48:50 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Can't get any Joystick to work with my Mac + vice 64 emulator https://www.icode.com/community/help-and-troubleshooting/cant-get-any-joystick-to-work-with-my-mac-vice-64-emulator/#post-106 Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:30:08 +0000 Hey Ali, thanks for responding.

 

Yeah i have those settings, and have tried basically what you suggested.

 

In vice, you have these small squares where you can see where it registers joystick movement. if i go up, the green squares stay up until i go somewhere else. none of the directions are straight, they flicker and often go in two directions at once even though i go up, down, right, left.

 

I am suspecting this arrived to me as a "monday batch" as we say in Sweden. I mailed the company but got no response. 

 

In any case, thanks again.

]]> Help and Troubleshooting FriendlyRoyBatty https://www.icode.com/community/help-and-troubleshooting/cant-get-any-joystick-to-work-with-my-mac-vice-64-emulator/#post-106 RE: Can't get any Joystick to work with my Mac + vice 64 emulator https://www.icode.com/community/help-and-troubleshooting/cant-get-any-joystick-to-work-with-my-mac-vice-64-emulator/#post-77 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 03:10:05 +0000 Hi.  

I assume you see movement on the small screen correctly when you move the stick?

I tried both Vice and VirtualC64 mulators on my Macbook running MacOS 15.2 and theey both worked fine,  I only tried joystick only just to check.  

What I did was: 

  1. On the device, make sure joystick is set to dpad.  Also in duos others menu: MiSTer: Off, Driving: Off, Single Mode: Off
  2. the on your Mac, make sure device is paird and then run vice and press F10 key to get to Vic menu.
  3. select Joyport settings, then Control Port 1, and select Joystick.  Then go back to main menu (delete key twice)
  4. select machine settings, then Joystick Settings, Native joystick port 1: select iCode Duo BLE

I ran a couple of games like Donkey Kong and M.U.L.E and they both worked.

Note paddles and second joystick are a bit tricky and may not work on the mac but if you really need it and have joystick working, let me know and i can try it.

]]> Help and Troubleshooting Ali Jani https://www.icode.com/community/help-and-troubleshooting/cant-get-any-joystick-to-work-with-my-mac-vice-64-emulator/#post-77 Can't get any Joystick to work with my Mac + vice 64 emulator https://www.icode.com/community/help-and-troubleshooting/cant-get-any-joystick-to-work-with-my-mac-vice-64-emulator/#post-76 Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:18:18 +0000 Hi, i have bought the iCode Duo BLE, i while back, it's running 9.06 on Latest macOS. 

I have paired it fine, but i'm now trying to run it in a c64 emulator, and it'e pretty wacky. 

It's recognized, but up/down/left/right is not working. It gets stuck in up so i have to press down to get it to unregister - and all directions are, well, wrong. left becomes left-down, down becomes down-right. I can't get any direction to go as expected.

I have fiddled around with the dpad settings, i am now using "BOTH" since that seemed closest to working. I've tried with a bunch of different joysticks - (3 different TAC-2, Wico etc)

I'm basically pretty lost, i had thought this would 'just work' like any other controller i've been using. (ps5, 8bitdo etc).

 

Is there anything i can do, anyone have any tips? Pointers appreciated.

]]> Help and Troubleshooting FriendlyRoyBatty https://www.icode.com/community/help-and-troubleshooting/cant-get-any-joystick-to-work-with-my-mac-vice-64-emulator/#post-76