Speaking of programming joysticks for functions, does anyone else know the lacking ability of fs2 to map any other function to an axis. I've tried fs2 throttle on joystick that's when it gets too sensitive and goes up and down in speed too much when i just simply roll my fighter with the same stick. What i wish was the ability to map afterburners to an axis, then again, i want the ability to put any control in fs2 on an axis. My right joystick left-right is for rolling, all the way up brings my fighter to a stop, all the way down lets me use burners and still roll my fighter at the same time, and of course the joystick button is for max speed. I like my joystick to do all of that, and it's extremely useful, i can make the gay ass logitech profiler do that for me, but like i said ,it's gay, that **** even ****ed with my games.
Wobble if you love the ps2 pad so much, you should get a logitech rumblepad 2 wireless, it's fashioned after a ps2 pad, 100hours on 2 AA, 30 foot range, goes to sleep when not using it, and it's not sony.
Pretty much, its from a good brand, but saitek makes better **** than logitech, it's just that logitech made a much better wireless pad than saitek did, fashioned after the famous old ps2 pad (the ps2 pad and fashioning really is not that great), i can use this thing from wherever i want in my room and i'll probably replace the batteries in about 2 months.
As for the natural ps2 pad, well, that's where the xbox360 controller isn't that much different and improves upon the ps2 pad. 2 of the damn shoulder buttons are analog, and the other 2 are digital....that's an improvement and feature addition over the ps2's 4 digital non analogue shoulder buttons (and that button mashing with a pressure sensor under the button is so cheesy and will make you buy newer controllers more often than you wish). The other feature was the repositioned primary joystick, the fact that it's above the dpad, and not all cramped to close to the middle of the gamepad like the ps2 pad. Anyway the 360 pad has those 2 improvements over the ps2 pad.
Another thing is that like i said it's sony. They're **** is designed to break down, overheat, and just plain old break after a certain period of time and average handling. If you have bought more than one ps2 console for yourself, plz do a good job thinking why people with an xbox or gamecube have not needed to buy a new one (most of the money from ps2's was from people replacing they're old ps2s). Also the ps2 game pad, intuitive, but just as deceivingly bad as the ps2 console, like i said that whole pressure sensor under the buttons to simulate a throttle axis on the ps2 pad, talk about unnecessary and a great way to wear the game pad down. It's one reason why microsoft with the normal xbox which had the same thing on it's gamepads removed that feature in the xbox360 controllers (it's just unnecessary).
I'm not *****ing here too much, i'm just saying it's smart to question whatever the hell you buy from sony. Sony products have a high reputation for breaking (and if you're **** didn't break then you're probably one of the few people in the world who actually takes care of their **** like my brother and his ps2 taking it out of a cabinet whenever he plays and being gentle with it). And don't forget other sony products, it's them who have put a rootkit that installs itself to your computer when you pop in a sony music cd (now you have to be careful listen to 50 cent).
Other than that ps2 is a fine console, it'd have an even higher user fanaticism going along with it if sony products were more reliable and not depending on the customer to go in and buy another and another to make money.
But the logitech rumblepad 2 wireless, with it's ps2'esque, the inner joysticks aren't too bad when you get use to them, then again this pad fits my medium sized hands great, but the primary joystick is something that could always be repositioned, and this pad is tons more comfortable than the ps2 pad. I remember my gravis xterminator gamepad, talk about awesome, that thing didn't even need a second joystick, that thing had the best shoulder buttons in the world, you could actually use them all with independent fingers at the same time. Plus the other thing was that it included everything that the expensive honking joysticks had like pov hat (it had a dpad and an itty-bitty 8 way pov hat too) and 2 analog shoulder buttons you could use as rudders or whatever. WTH happened to gravis/kensington? I was considering getting another xterminator too.
