OK guys I posted this in the other forum but I gotta mention this here, since I know most of ya'll are using a Logitech wheel to play OutRun 2k6 and would love to make some tweaks and such to the analog controls and whatnot, so here we go.....
Some of you may have heard of a program called vJoy. It's a utility that allows Windows to create a virtual joystick, and is intended to be a replacement for the somewhat outdated PPJOY program. So after putting it off for quite some time, I finally caved in and installed vJoy. Now, although vJoy and I got off to a very rocky start yesterday, and it did something to my ppjoy installation which prevents me from re-installing it properly, I have been using vJoy and it is indeed growing on me. Haven't had any problems with it so far and I don't really see a need to go back to using ppjoy if I don't have to.
Now...onto the even better news and the reason this is relevant: There is another utility I
*HIGHLY* recommend that accompanies vJoy beautifully called "Universal Joystick Remapper", or "UJR" for short.
This little app is the stuff dreams are made of. Similar to the old and outdated Frank N Stick utility, this takes all the things Frank did and injects a vile of steroids into it! It will let you remap
ANY Axis or button from
ANY of your controllers to any Axis or button on your Virtual Joystick that vJoy creates. Furthermore, and this is where the term "Godsend" comes into play.....it actually lets you adjust the sensitivity of any axis on your vjoy virtual controller...
ON THE FLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, that means if you use say the PSP emulator to play Ridge Racer, you know how sloppy it's gonna feel if you try to play it with your 900 degree Logitech G25 or whatever wheel you own. UJR solves this by allowing you to decrease the saturation of your wheel's analog axis, thus increasing its sensitivity and giving you a more
natural steering sensation that replicates the PSP's analog knob more accurately. This can be done on the fly and in REALTIME!!!!!!!!!
But it doesn't stop there. The latest version, which EvilC just uploaded
LITERALLY minutes ago, actually allows you to create different Autohotkey custom profiles representing each custom controller configuration to correspond with the specific game you run. For example, I can have a profile that has my steering wheel turn at around 900 degree radius, while having
*another* Autohotkey profile where my wheel turns only 270 degrees!!!!!!!! And then I can setup it up where the AHK script will launch automatically with each game I play!!!!!!!!! So 180 degrees for Ridge Racers PSP and 270 degrees for OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast. I'm sorry but that is just
BONKERS to me!!!
I've been wanting a virtual joystick-assistant utility that can do these things for
YEARS!!! And now I finally have one thanks to EvilC and his UJR app. I encourage everyone who owns a steering wheel for PC and loves using it on different emulators for driving games to go download vjoy, and then UJR. You can grab them both over at Headkazes forum here:
http://vjoystick.sourceforge.net/site/index.php/forum/indexWelp, I'm off to play with UJR some more
Howard.......