First, I apologize if this has already been put on the forum.
But as I was not, I want to share my little experience.
I was looking primarily to handle the menu advmenu pad with usb (Tomee mark).
To operate the joystick advmenu, you must modify the file advmenu.rc
In line 11

change

device_joystick not

by

auto device_joystick

thank you very much, and apologies for my spelling, English is very little, and use the translator google: (