This will be the new Sticky For Making all Gamepads Working!

[FranshizePlaya]

Well, the wisecracks at EA decided to only support certain gamepads, but there's a way to outsmart 'em.

Let me say this first and foremost: It's not worth getting a Logitech Wingman Rumblepad.

Why? The analog sticks are some of the worst things my thumbs have ever set touch upon (if that made sense) They're flimsy, weak pieces of crap that seem to hardly have ANY SPRING to them whatsoever. The buttons are also very "blah" - they just feel hard and it's just a pain to push them at times.

Instead, i'd strongly recommend getting a PS2 Dual Shock and the PC adapter for it from Radio Shack ($10, you'll see it in the RADIO SHACK branded items, NOT near the video game stuff). To get it working, you have to do the following:

Get a Dual Shock PS2 controller and the $10 adapter from Radio Shack. There's a little registry trick that will allow you to use any controller you have, and it works for me. Before I changed it, it wasn't detected.

1. Open Regedit (Start>Run>regedit)

2. Make your way to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ControlMediaPropertiesPrivateProp erties JoystickOEM

3. You'll see a bunch of entries like VID_045E&PID_000XXXX and when you click on it, it should have the name of a controller in the right pane

4. For me, it was the last entry. Keep going down the list until the controller that has the same name in your Controller is shown on the right window.

5. Delete the description for that window on the right window and rename it to Logitech Dual Action.

(Example: My controller name was simply USB Generic Controller or something like that, so I just renamed it and it was immediately detected in game.

[cb]

Thanks! It works for me! :D

[KerryW]

Dont we already have a sticky on this? Oh well, I guess one more wouldnt hurt..

[Kccitystar]

All you had to do was edit the controllers.cfg file instead of this registry nonsense.

[cb]

For some reason, It worked on the configuraion part, but not the game. How do you change the controllers.cfg file?

[cb]

also, how do y'all git your sigs to work. I have a picture, I used HTML, and I clicked "show signature". But when I edit my profile again, after saving the changes, the signature window is blank.

Sorry if it has been asked before.

[FranshizePlaya]

ok i guess... i was havin trouble with my saitek p220 so i i had to come up with something..am sorry if this way bothers people..its ok i dont need credit..just um take this post down.

[McDiddy]

It should work.... you are using the img tags, right?

[krawhitham]

I use an xbox controller with a home made USB adapter

here are some instructions

Introduction

Around a year ago I picked up two generic Xbox compatible controllers for about $2. They were new in box, and although I didn't own an Xbox (and still don't), I knew I had to grab a couple.

After collecting dust since last summer, I finally dug one out today decided it would be fun to have on my PC. The only gamepad I have for my computer is some Gravis pad from probably 6 years ago. The Xbox pads are made by PowerPad Colors, but they feel reasonably sturdy, and have rumble and two swivel caps, which is more than most reasonably priced PC gamepads have.

Fortunately for us, the Xbox controller has a USB interface, so it's only a matter of splicing a male USB adapter on in place of the funky Xbox one. So, this should be a simple hack. The following materials will get the job done.

Materials


XBOX Compatible Game Controller


Male USB Adapter Cable


Wire strippers (and/or scissors, if you must)


Electrical tape and/or heatshrink

The Mod

You can see that I'm using a Male-Female USB extension cable for my male USB adapter. We're just going to chop the adapter off and discard of the cable.

Make sure you use the right end (circled in the above picture). We're going to do the same thing to the Xbox cable, too

Cut the Xbox adapter off right at the base, leaving yourself some room to splice on the new one. Cut the USB adapter off at least 4 or 5 inches away from the adapter. Now strip off about an inch of casing from the end of each exposed cable that we'll be connecting. There will be a lot of thin silver wires and foil wrapped around a few smaller, colored wires. The silver casing is the shielding, but unless you want to try and preserve it just cut it away to expose the colored wires.

Using your wire strippers, pull away the casing on each of the colored wires to expose the bare wire. Now you can proceed to actually splice the wires togteher.

Each wire of the USB adapter should match up to a colored wire on the gamepad. The Xbox controller has one additional yellow wire, which you can just ignore. You can use either heatshrink casing or electrical tape to cover up the bare leads. Heatshrink is more permanent and professional, but for simplicity I just used some electrical tape on each of the smaller wires, then wrapped up the entire thing tightly, making sure the bare leads did not cross.

You can see the ghetto-fabulous mod I've done above. The cable shown here detaches from the Xbox controller, which is why you don't see it actually leading to anything. Feel free to be as fancy as you want - some heatshrink will look nice and hold up better, so now that I know it works I'll probably redo the mod when I get to the second controller.

If everything went well, we should be able to set up the device and start using it. The first thing to do is snag the XBCD drivers, and run the installer file.

Once the drivers are installed, plug in the controller and it should detect and install the drivers for "XBCD XBox Gamepad". Now go to Programs -> XBCD -> Setup Utility and set up your new gamepad!

And that's it! Not bad for a ten minute mod. Enjoy.

that is the end of the stolen intructions

Here are the drivers I'm using http://www.mindwarped.com/xbox/XBCDv057.exe

You might be able to get newer drivers from

http://redcl0ud.hostrocket.com/xbcd.html

BUT the Config file posted below will not work with a newer version

once the drivers are installed and the controller is recognized do the regedit trick

1. Open Regedit (Start>Run>regedit)

2. Make your way to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ControlMediaPropertiesPrivateProp erties JoystickOEM

3. You'll see a bunch of entries like VID_045E&PID_000XXXX and when you click on it, it should have the name of a controller in the right pane

4. For me, it was the last entry. Keep going down the list until the controller that has the same name in your Controller is shown on the right window.

5. Delete the description for that window on the right window and rename it to Logitech Dual Action.

Once that is done go to the Contoller options

start -> settings -> control panel -> Game Contollers -> Properties

The select load and load this file

http://www.mindwarped.com/xbox/mvp-xbox-co...er-settings.rar

(don't be dumb it is INSIDE the RAR file, uncompress it and load the mvp.xgp file inside the RAR achive

Now place the is file http://www.mindwarped.com/xbox/controller-cfg.rar in your MVP Baseball 2004 directory (once again DECOMPRESS the rar file and place the controller.cfg in the MVP Baseball 2004 which is inside the My Documents directory)

BTW

you have other options you can buy an adapter instead of making one

look here

http://tinyurl.com/6axw6

[cb]

Still aint workin. I tried

<img src="http://mercury.walagata.com/w/mcdiddy/RangersSig.jpg">

When I look on the " Post Reply" page where you type a reply/ topic. At the bottom left, it says HTML is off. Would that have something to do wiith it?

[krawhitham]

Still aint workin. I tried

<img src="http://mercury.walagata.com/w/mcdiddy/RangersSig.jpg">

When I look on the " Post Reply" page where you type a reply/ topic. At the bottom left, it says HTML is off. Would that have something to do wiith it?

[img=http://mercury.walagata.com/w/mcdiddy/RangersSig.jpg]

[krawhitham]

BTW after you make the adaper for the xbox contoller you have a Action Replay device

just install the Action Replay software and when you put a memory card in you controller while connected to your PC it will be seen as a Action Replay device

for the action reply software

http://uk.codejunkies.com/downloads/XBOXAR_USsetup1_31.zip

[krawhitham]

Still aint workin. I tried

<img src="http://mercury.walagata.com/w/mcdiddy/RangersSig.jpg">

When I look on the " Post Reply" page where you type a reply/ topic. At the bottom left, it says HTML is off. Would that have something to do wiith it?

remove the spaces between ] & h and g & [

[img] http://mercury.walagata.com/w/mcdiddy/RangersSig.jpg [/img]

[McDiddy]

Thanks for all the info Warped. Good stuff.

[jpup]

Man, that's some matted carpet. :lol:

[Yankee4Life]

Can't hurt to have this one as a sticky too if it ends up helping people.

[Kamasutra]

Not only did it help, but Kraw's XBOX conversion instructions were golden.

Thanks Kraw, will try this out, first I need to snag a 2nd cheapo controller on Ebay :D

[nittanylionfan3]

For some reason, It worked on the configuraion part, but not the game. How do you change the controllers.cfg file?

go to my documents and mvp baseball there should be the controller cfg. there just change it to your gamepad :)

[beau862005]

I have a Recoil Game Elements by Gemini controller and I'm wondering if this will work and if it will how would I get it to work.

[five]

Yeah it should work. Try the FAQ and see if Kraws tutorial helps.

If not, give it a week and maybe another FAQ that I made a while back will be uploaded by then. It's an extensive controller tutorial.

[beau862005]

I've been having trouble because I can't open Regedit. It says to go to Start>Run>Regedit but after Run there only 2 D drive options available. I could browse it but I have no idea where to go. Thanks for any help.

[beau862005]

Please help

[spitoon]

I've been having trouble because I can't open Regedit. It says to go to Start>Run>Regedit but after Run there only 2 D drive options available. I could browse it but I have no idea where to go. Thanks for any help.

Not exactly clear on what you are asking, but after you click on "Run", then you need to type regedit in the box and press Enter??

[beau862005]

Great thanks for the advice I got my game to recognize my controller. But I am having trouble with my pitching cursor. Whenever I move it slightly to the left or up it goes all the way. There is no in between. Is it something to do with my controller configuration.

[perkoli]

1. Open Regedit (Start>Run>regedit)

2. Make your way to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ControlMediaPropertiesPrivateProp erties JoystickOEM

3. You'll see a bunch of entries like VID_045E&PID_000XXXX and when you click on it, it should have the name of a controller in the right pane

4. For me, it was the last entry. Keep going down the list until the controller that has the same name in your Controller is shown on the right window.

5. Delete the description for that window on the right window and rename it to Logitech Dual Action.

(Example: My controller name was simply USB Generic Controller or something like that, so I just renamed it and it was immediately detected in game.

I did what u said and it didn´t work for me, any suggestions?