Can a joystick work in fl?

[Jason753]

Is it possible to make a joystick to work on freelancer? ITs a wingman extreme. kinda old, but the game is old too....XD

[jammi]

So far as I know, the game can be hacked to work with a joystick. There's not much point though, seeing as it'll actually cause a disadvantage due to the cursor not being locked to the centre of the screen.

In locked cursor games, joysticks give you extra control that can give you an edge. In more twitch based games like Freelancer, it's just a reeeeally slow mouse. Would be a novel way to run a trade ship or cap's turret steer in conjunction with a mouse though.

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[Jason753]

Was more hoping to use both at the same time. Like fly the joystick with fun and fight with the key bored. Thank you any ways!

[indy.miner1]

m also interested in this, id love to use my logitech extreme pro AND the normal controlls, have you found anything so far Jason753

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[Switchback]

Theoretically this is possible, if you can find a program that makes the Joystick axises emulate key presses. It wouldn't be very precise without lots of programming, but it is possible.

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[indy.miner1]

ive just found this

http://www.emulation-evolved.net/?q=node/19

works pretty good, not as responsive as the mouse, but does work and managing to bank and turn as if im in a jetplane etc, prob will be rubbish in combat, only thing is no mouse movement means no targetting for other ships but anyway is fun

now if i could only work out a way to stop my ship from "auto levelling" would be more fun

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[Makc_RU]

Joy will not work.

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[Makc_RU]

Joy will not work. This is not a fly sim, it is arcade style, u need reaction, joy won't work.

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[indy.miner1]

it does work but not as responsive as mouse, just a bit of fun really

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[Taco123]

ITS TRUE! Ask any of my friends.... or just dada or bablo he knows i play with a joystick. its really cool and simple, except there only somany buttons you can assign.