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Wow - this was extremely helpful. I had fiddled with every joystick setting, but apparently never tried the spacebar to kick the game off. Somehow when trying every key on the keyboard, I must have missed spacebar....thank you all so much!!! (I told you this was an ignorant question!).

Aight so please excuse the ignorant question, but I've been trying to get a game I played as a kid on my PC. I have Windows7 (possibly 10 soon) and have tried STEEM (including the SSE version), Hatari, and one other emulator (name escapes me). When I run Mousetrap, it runs through the preview sequence of a few seconds of each level, but I can never seem to assume control of the game to start playing. I can play at least another game (Lotus racing) on STEEM, but can't get Mousetrap to respond to any key commands (despite messing with the joystick setup multiple times). I KNOW this worked at some point because I emulated the game on an old Pentium circa 2005 - I can't figure out why I can't get this to work now. Anyone have any ideas? Is it the ROM, is there some config setting I'm screwing up...what's the deal? Any help would be VERY much appreciated.