AlGat Posted May 21 Posted May 21 I recently purchased the WinWing URSA MINOR Airline Joystick to replace my old worn out Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro Joystick which is a HUGE upgrade in quality. I bought it primarily to play older legacy games such as Wing Commander which was released 1990 when joysticks only had two buttons. But much to my surprise, the WinWing Airline joystick trigger and missile buttons on the joystick grip are buttons 21 and 22 instead of buttons 1 and 2. As far as I can tell, there is no way to tell these older games to use buttons 21 and 22 instead of buttons 1 and 2 because the games were written when joysticks didn't have more than two buttons. Wing Commander does see buttons 1 and 2 on the Airline joystick, but those buttons are on the base and not on the grip - see attached picture for button numbers and showing which ones I want to change. By the way, this is unlike other multibutton joysticks such as Logitech 3D pro which keeps the legacy button assignment for buttons 1 and 2. But it seems the newer ones such as WinWing and VKB stopped worrying about maintaining the legacy location of joystick buttons 1 and 2. Is there a way for buttons 21 and 22 to be renamed or remapped to be buttons 1 and 2 for these older games? I have looked at the WinWing SimApp Pro joystick program but I am getting lost because the manual says "Coming Soon" for "Virtual Device Mapping" which I *think* is where I can swap button numbers like that? But I don't know, and am getting totally confused when I go into that part of the program. Also, if it is important, then I am getting these games at GOG which uses DOSBOX to run the older games on modern computers. So I will want to run lots of other older games will also have the same issues. Anyway, can anyone help me with this? If the Virtual Device Mapping in SimApp Pro is the answer, then some help with how to do that would be appreciated.
AlGat Posted June 8 Author Posted June 8 I contacted JoyToKey and they confirmed that their software will not re-assign one button as another button on a joystick the way I want to. They said that what I want to do is the equivelent of JoyToJoy and not JoyToKey. So I abandoned that idea, and decided to start from scratch. I decided to use my WinWing URSA MINOR Figher Joystick instead of the Airliner to get more buttons. And I just assigned a bunch of the buttons to various actions. It works great, and it adds more controls to the joystick which is an added bonus. So problem solved.
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