Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad drivers and/or SBLive!

[Lothario 0]

Does anyone know where I can find the MS Sidewinder driver software version 4? I've heard that this works under W2K (unlike 3.02). If you know where I can find this, please post a link. Your help would be much appreciated.

 

On a side (or perhaps central) note. Does anyone have two sidewinders daisy-chained together that work with and SBLive in W2K? This used to work perfectly for me with an old Diamond Monster Sound MX300 but with my new X-Gamer it doesn't work at all. Now I can only use one joystick (daisy-chaining doesn't work at all). Has anyone seen this, and resolved it? Thanks again.

 

Lothario.

[Boutblock 0]

I m looking for it as well !!!

 

I know it is only bundled with latest USB wheel product but it may help to get those old game port joystick to work maybe...

 

Thanx guys

[~Aragorn~ 0]

ok peeps sorry about this one but v4 ONLY works with the controllers that are USB only - and guess what - its only distributed with those controllers. so ull have to wait for v4.1 or v5 of woteva

[Lothario 0]

I actually had heard that before. What I'm more curious about is why daisy-chaining worked perfectly with my MX300 (produced by the now defunct Aureal) and not with my "bleeding-edge" Creative Labs X-Gamer. Does anyone have daisy-chaining working with an SBLive? (i.e. two MS Sidewinder Gamepads)

 

Thanks for you help,

Lothario

[Dacs 0]

Quote:

I actually had heard that before. What I'm more curious about is why daisy-chaining worked perfectly with my MX300 (produced by the now defunct Aureal) and not with my "bleeding-edge" Creative Labs X-Gamer. Does anyone have daisy-chaining working with an SBLive? (i.e. two MS Sidewinder Gamepads)

Thanks for you help,
Lothario

Yey! This is my first post!

I'm just curious. I'm planning on having another MS sidewinder gamepad (the gameport one) and daisychaining it to my another sidewinder. How did you do that? I mean care to tell me how you hook up the second gamepad?
OR should I buy a sidewinder that is on USB? Will it work using them both with the gameport version? Anyone can comment on this? I'm planning to buy one real soon and I have no plans using the new sidewinder as a paperweight :x

Thanks for all the replies

EDIT: I overlooked at the date of this thread and this is over 2 yrs old! But I still hope someone can help me on this

[SHS 0]

You would be better off with USB

[Phalanx-Imawano 0]

I have the Sidewinder Gamepad and Sidewinder 3D Pro Joystick, both gameport versions, plugged into a Soundblaster Live 5.1 card of my WinXP Pro machine, and each works fine with no special drivers (I use the Sidewinder Autodetect). The 3D Pro works even when daisychaned to the Gamepad (so long as I press the button that disables the gamepad for the joystick to work, and at least make sure the Joystick is detected in the Game Controller properties in Control Panel). Just strange that the old 3D Pro gameport version works like a wonder in WinXP and Win2k, but I can't get it to use the Sidewinder driver in Win98/WinME (there I have to resort to the CH Flightstick Pro driver, because the Sidewinder 3D Pro driver only responds with the "Not Connected" message).

 

Dacs: The Sidewinder Gamepad gameport version has a gameport socket between the triggers where you connect another gameport device to it for daisychaining, though it seems only Sidewinder gameport devices (specifically the Gamepad and the 3D Pro) will work in this setup (if a 3D Pro is part of the chain, it should be the last controller on the chain). The USB versions cannot be daisychained (because there's no USB port on the controller), instead you use a USB hub to have multiple game controllers connected (though many game controller manufacturers discourage this with warnings of instability).