http://www.stelladaptor.com/

This device is really cool and not too expensive (About 29$). It allows you to connect a standard 9-pin joystick to your PC or your Macintosh computer via USB, and use it to play your favourites emulators as the were meant to be played.

There are already some emulators that supports this device, such as Stella (an Atari 2600 Emulator), MAME and MacMAME. It would be very cool if BlueMSX, OpenMSX and fMSX could also be enabled to use this smart device.

Apparently, AtariAge isn't selling it anymore and Lik-sang have it just for backorders...

I want one of those!

there is a cheaper way
it requers some handy skils

buy a cheap usb PC game pad witout the analog shit

then rewire the directions and the buttons to the corect pin on a sub d conector and a msx joystic to pc converter is born
maybe for 10 euro's?

My skills with soldering are VEEERY POOR

At the RetroZone you can buy the same thing and they're only $23.

Hmmm, I just got a device with 2 potmeters that I borrowed from a friend of my bro,
works like a charm, played space manbow with it on bluemsx.
He bought it second hand for 2 euros... and I played with an arcade joystick.
That's just the way emulators should be played

Cesco : check the possibilities of the blueMSX Controllers / Keyboard editor, you can remap all the MSX keys and buttons to all PC keys and buttons of controllers detected by DirectX.

Ok, but I'm not really sure that those devices outputs something as keystrokes

poke: I think I also have such a device here It's really ugly, right?

haha yup, buttugly..grey whiteish square small box,
BUT with an embossed eagle saying STC rotterdam upon closer inspection

It's the same one then

heh, works like a charm...
I borrowed it, and the guy said he could have bought 2, (2 euros each)
but didn't since he wouldn't take the risk of buying something he
wasn't certain of that it would work... and now he regrets it hahaha.
Indeed, it works perfectly

If you're using Linux, you can just solder a cable and connect your MSX joystick to your PC printer port. Make sure you load the "db9" module.

davr.org/snes/joystick.txt (see 2-button multi-system joysticks)
llg.cubic.org/docs/joystick.html

I got mine from my ex-colleague Ludo, thanks again, dude!

I just found an old-school joystick that is very cheap (About 7 Euros) and have a USB plug:

http://www.videogame.it/shop/?act=scheda&lang=ita&prd_id=1666&piattaforma_id=1