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    Will any games work with this joystick today?

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    #1  Edited By BombKareshi

    My girlfriend apparently uncovered this ancient device called a Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro joystick, and she was asking me what games, if any, can still be played with it.
     
    I have no idea, and Google hasn't been particularly helpful either (how does one even ask Google something like this). So again I turn to the experienced community of the Giant Bomb. Does anyone still have one of these? Do we need special drivers for it to work with modern games or operating systems? Or should we just toss it out and be done with it?
     
    Thanks.

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    #3  Edited By wolf_blitzer85

    Boot up some Tie Fighter with that thing.

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    #4  Edited By jetsetwillie

    well you would type into google 'which games support a microsoft sidewinder forcefeedback'

    i had on of these also a few years back, cost a lot of money, was over £100 in the UK. i used to play it a lot with combat flight sim. thats all it was ever any good for it really... 'flight sims'.

    i would think its pretty useless now as it isnt even supported by win7

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    #5  Edited By ThreePi

    Wikipedia says that thing doesn't have USB support, so I think you'd have a hell of a time trying to get it working with a modern PC.

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