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Re: Joysticks With Catalyst 2012

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Originally Posted by Flimsor View Post
The new simulator for this year's game is great. It gives us an idea of how games will run for the most part. That said, I would like to use it to get some early driver practice this year, but it is made to work with only keyboards, and Xbox 360 controllers. That's ok, but no one uses those to control their robots. I'd like to hook up some joystick and get it to run, but the game doesn't allow that at the moment. I know that there are ways to make games think something else is an Xbox controller by running it through a controller emulator, but I have yet to find one that would work with this game. This may be a dead end unless Diamond Bullet Studios adds in joystick support themselves, but if anyone else knows of a way to do this, that would be great.
When my team used the Catalyst simulation, we didn't need a driver for the 360 controllers. We just plugged them into the USB port on the laptop, and they were recognized by the program. I think one of the greatest benefits of having Catalyst will be the ability to teach drivers how to recognize and deal with in-match issues, "Reading the defense" so to speak
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