Help please.

[runt9]

Here's the scoop. I picked up a used copy of Madden NFL 2005, but I'm not about the drop another $25 on a gamepad for my computer. The keyboard controls work just fine. The problem is that the EA developers are shamelessly trying to sell their gamepad. Because of this, there are moves, strategies, etc. in the game that you can do with a gamepad that don't have equivalents with the keyboard controls. That pisses me off. So I'm looking for some sort of software that will emulate a gamepad hooked up to my computer that will let me map keys ==> gamepad buttons. Is this really far out there? Anyone know of anything like this? It'd also help to have keys mapped to analog sticks since most gamepad features for Madden 2005 use the right analog stick. Any help would be appreciated.

[AlanS17]

There's no keyboard (digital) replacement for an analog stick. You can fake it but the results wouldn't be pretty.

As for the software, I've seen a program that emulates a joystick using a keyboard, but not the other way around.

Don't kow what to tell you there...

[NoOne=NBA=]

As mentioned, you can't emulate an analog stick with a single state digital input, like a keyboard.
What you are going to get is basically an 8-way joystick, rather than an analog one.

Any solution you find to work around using their proprietary hardware is likely going to be more expensive than the gamepad that EA is selling.
(i.e. if you get an arcade analog stick, and an AKI or A-pac, you are probably looking at a minimum of $50--without any buttons for it).

[AlanS17]

It sounds to me like he JUST wants to use the keyboard. Personally, I think it sounds like a move made more out of spite than actual practicality. But maybe that's just me...

[NoOne=NBA=]

That's what I thought too.
I just wanted to point out that they aren't really "shamelessly" pushing their gamepad.
It's the right tool for the job, and the keyboard isn't.

There are keyboard to joystick programs out there, but I can't think of the name of any offhand.
To the best of my knowledge, they all basically do what I described above.
They will send "joystick fully right" when you press the right cursor key, etc..., so they don't REALLY emulate an analog stick.

[runt9]

ok ,well, thanks for your help. by analog stick, i meant like analog sticks on a logitech dual action or something like that. but if there's no way, then ok.