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"Dan Sgambelluri" <dsgambelluri@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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> Mark Stahl wrote:
>> "Dan Sgambelluri" <dsgambelluri@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>>>Mark Stahl wrote:
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>>>>"Dan Sgambelluri" <dsgambelluri@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>>>>>Mark Stahl wrote:
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>>>>>>"Dan Sgambelluri" <dsgambelluri@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>>>>>>>Mark Stahl wrote:
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>>>>>>>>"Dan Sgambelluri" <dsgambelluri@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>>NightSky 421 wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>"Dan Sgambelluri" <dsgambelluri@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>>>>I am sure EA is looking at a fix because the registry hack above
>>>>>>>>>>>affects all games.
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>>>>>>>>>>Hope so. It's not like Saitek is some unknown name. If anything,
>>>>>>>>>>I've read a lot of reviews on the Internet written by people who
>>>>>>>>>>own the Logitech Dual Action Gamepad and have read one bad review
>>>>>>>>>>after another. I can't recall the last time I've read so many bad
>>>>>>>>>>things about a product, and the vast majority of the complaints
>>>>>>>>>>have to do with lost calibration that can't be corrected. Usually
>>>>>>>>>>it happens after a short period of time, usually a couple of
>>>>>>>>>>months. I wanted to buy one, but reading that many bad reviews
>>>>>>>>>>really scared me off.
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>>>>>>>>>Me too and I was one of the people who had problems with the
>>>>>>>>>Logitech gamepad but not as bas as the others
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>>>>>>>>>Z replace the gamepad because the left controller stick covering
>>>>>>>>>was coming off.
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>>>>>>>>After having a logitech control pad for only about one month (and
>>>>>>>>using it just 2-3 times) the left stick basically stopped working
>>>>>>>>altogether. Do you know if it's possible to configure things such
>>>>>>>>that the Z pad replaces the stick in every game (ie, in the control
>>>>>>>>panel or something?)
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>>>>>>>>thanks!
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>>>>>>>the hack affects all games.
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>>>>>>Yeah. What I'm asking is.... what hack?
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>>>>>this one
>>>>>http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports/tree/browse_frm/thread/e686c33e8c53d9ca/f68653c4a0fc8fb4?rnum=1&hl=en&q=dsgambelluri@shaw.ca&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Fe686c33e8c53d9ca%2F30349f653a3f759f%3Flnk%3Dst%26q%3Ddsgambelluri@shaw.ca%26rnum%3D1%26hl%3Den%26#doc_15ccc795cc7cf2ab
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>>>>I thought that was the hack to enable the Saitek gamepad, not to replace
>>>>the left analog stick with the Z-pad. What am I missing here?
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>>>the hack was to stop the player from doing 360s for no reason at all when
>>>the player had the puck for users of Saitek gamepads. The game supported
>>>Saitek gamepads as that is what is in the game's readme file.
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>> Yeah, I know. What I was wondering was this:
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>>>>>>>>After having a logitech control pad for only about one month (and
>>>>>>>>using it just 2-3 times) the left stick basically stopped working
>>>>>>>>altogether. Do you know if it's possible to configure things such
>>>>>>>>that the Z pad replaces the stick in every game (ie, in the control
>>>>>>>>panel or something?)
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>> It's a different issue altogether. I just noticed you'd written this:
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>>>>>>>>Z replace the gamepad because the left controller stick covering was
>>>>>>>>>coming off.
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> this was for the Logitech Dual Action Pad itself and was not due to any
> game but the controller itself. It also had a very bad calibration
> problem too.
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>> at some point and was wondering how you'd done it.
LOL, nevermind. Thanks anyway.