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SideWinder StarGate Control Panel Hack
D_Harris:
UPDATE:
It appears that XP doesn't always recognized the things it is supposed to.
The control panel worked perfectly in XP/MAME for me without me having to do much outside of plugging it into the game port.
The control panel is now in possession of my friend who installed XP on a system with an audio card so he could use the game port also. Unfortunately his system does not see the SideWinder.
Outside of making sure his audio card drivers are the latest can anyone recommend what other steps may be taken to get the SideWinder to work?
Are there specific drivers for the SideWinder that can be downloaded from somewhere?
Thanks.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
boardjunkie:
Its not seen under "game controllers" in the windoze control panel? Sometimes you need to manually add the controller and then calibrate it.
D_Harris:
--- Quote from: boardjunkie on April 01, 2011, 09:15:04 pm ---Its not seen under "game controllers" in the windoze control panel? Sometimes you need to manually add the controller and then calibrate it.
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Yes, I know. He said that XP is just not seeing it. The following are the instructions I gave him. (I assume that I didn't miss anything)...
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The Microsoft SideWinder should be plug and play with XP. You shouldn't need to load any drivers. (I did nothing but plug it in and it ran perfectly in MAME).
A) I am using XP, so I assume that if you go to Control Panel you will also get what is shown in image #1
B) When you click "Game Controllers" you get what you see in image #2. If it doesn't say "Microsoft SideWinder game pad" with the status as "OK", click the "Add" button. This will bring up a list. On that list highlight "Microsoft SideWinder(Auto Detect)". You may have to do this several times in order to get it to recognize the SideWinder attached to your PC.
C) But if the status says OK, then click "Properties". You will get a second window titled "Microsoft SideWinder game pad properties" like that shown in image #3.
D) Click the "Test" tab. If you press the following buttons on your control panel the corresponding actions should show in that window:
Fire---------------------- Button #1
Thrust------------------- Button #2
Smart Bomb------------- Button #3
Inviso-------------------- Button #5
Hyper Space------------ Button #6
Reverse----------------- Button #4
Up----------------------- X-Y Axis Box(Up)
Down-------------------- X-Y Axis Box(Down)
Player 1----------------- Button #7
Player 2----------------- Button #8
Front Left Button------ X-Y Axis Box(Left)
Front Right Button----- X-Y Axis Box(Right)
Outside of that, make sure the drivers of your audio card are updated. If this fails, let me know and I'm look into it further.
Darren
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So as I mentioned, it worked fine on my PC which also has XP. The question is, are there any SideWinder drivers I can direct him to try?
Thanks.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
BobA:
Don't know about the driver for the gamepad but you could get him to check if the gameport is showing up in the device manager.
SavannahLion:
It has been years since I plugged in my sidewinder. Mode doesn't do what you think it does, you need the MS sidewinder drivers for it to function properly. IIRC, its related to whether the controller is seen as an analog pot based controller or a digital controller. I don't recall what the default setting for this mode is.
It's been a long time so I could be wrong. Under XP I think it has sidewinder drivers built in and the analog/digital mode is pointless so it probably just disabled the controller by default. Not that it matters. Gameport is no longer supported anyways. Stupid way to handle it. better to just use it as input. Oh well.
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