Joystick and JoyToKey issues

I decided to replay Wandering Hamster for the first time in years and was going to use my PS2 controller with a USB adapter (before anyone asks, it's working perfectly with everything else in Windows 7), but I noticed that the game wasn't taking any controller input. I did Ctrl+J to calibrate and it didn't read any input then, either. So I restarted the game and did Ctrl+J right off the bat at the intro screen; it was accepting joystick input, however it quickly just stopped accepting input within less than a minute.

So then I decided I'd just use JoyToKey instead. I mapped Enter and Esc to two of the regular buttons and mapped arrow keys to the D-pad. Regular buttons work OK, but it's not processing the arrow keys with the D-pad... really, really weird.

Anyone have any insights on this?

Are you using the new version I uploaded a few weeks ago? Or an old version you downloaded a long time ago?

I could swear that I already stripped out the old CTRL+J calibration. That isn't supposed to exist anymore... (and if it does, I need to hurry up and remove it)

I seem to remember that last time I tested a PS2 controller, it was mapping the D-pad to something other than arrow keys... but that was years ago.

I think joy2key is your best bet, although I don't know about the issue you describe.

I really need to work on joystick support :(

Yeah, downloaded the recently updated one from April. I'm also using the game.exe that was packed into that zip file, I'm not running wander.rpg with a different game.exe.

My guess is that when I set it to use arrow keys in JoyToKey, it's somehow receiving both the joystick input (but not actually processing it so it makes in game movement happen) and the emulated arrow key input simultaneously, which causes a conflict and results in no movement. That's just my guess, though.