#13 Joystick bindings?

[Matt]

I use blackbox on a recycled computer that is currently being used as a cheapo htpc. While using a keyboard has been useful for me I was wondering if it would be a huge pain in the butt to bind some stuff to joystick buttons? If I could use joystick buttons I could use an old wireless gamepad as a remote instead of lugging a keyboard around. As the htpc goes its a simple arch linux machine that mostly is a stereo but I can play dvds off it and it saved me $30 when I needed a new dvd player. I've had some success with using rejoystick as a stand in but I was hoping for something more simplified. Any other ideas on the matter are always appreciated though.