http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7800
--- Comment #28 from Ryan Houdek Sonicadvance1@gmail.com 2008-03-05 22:39:23 --- (In reply to comment #27)
I was testing lego star wars II and had this issue. I still had the same problems even after giving read permission to /dev/input/event*, but I did chmod 000 /dev/input/js* and then the joystick is normal.
I did chmod 000 /dev/input/js* on my PC, and now the joystick works correctly under Project64. This seems to be a way of fixing it that isn't good enough though.