I haven't been on Chief Delphi in a while and was suprised to see this topic as I did it in September. Its nice to see the same idea I had others had as well. But yeah I used
http://www.levelsix.com/product_info.php?products_id=35 as my ps2 (well actualy I used my old ps1 controler) and it seemed to work great, there was a minimal amount of programming (just had to edit some of the input values). I really enjoyed the fact that I didn't have to program a dead zone as the anolog sticks automaticly returned to dead center (or close enough that it didn't matter in my case) ... the thing I don't understand is how people think this is against the rules, as the controller has the same setup as a joystick pretty much. The difference maily being that it has a rumble ability (which for some reason I am having trouble to program).
Well anyway against the rules or not thats what I did... I hope for my sake it isn't agaisnt the rules.