Hi, I had ordered an adapter some time ago but could not get it working the first time. I am getting ready to play star citizen and bought a Thrustmaster 1600M which is fine. But I had a bout of nostalgia , and I tried the adapter again and this time !!! I got my FFB Pro without Fan working with ...

So things are stalled on the hardware side, I'm still waiting for replacement switches and other parts to arrive. In the meantime, I've played around with the code, and incorporated jaffa225man's fix to enable shift. I also added 16 extra buttons, so I can connect up to 8 switches to the remaining ...

You understand perfectly. I wish I could program it as a separate button (10) and define others above 18 (therefore gaining one button, the shift alone), but I don't really know the code that well. You see, the buttons were already defined, and I just took that to mean they should be working and ...

Scotophor, most of the games that I have, let me redefine which buttons are used. I have quite a few games, but not too many from the windows 95 era and haven't tested them all for compatibility. Just now, I tried the ones that came with my joystick, on XP (SP3): "Interstate 76", "Star Wars Empires ...

Scotophor, thanks for pointing that out. I was under the impression that the shift should be defined as such because of XP's control panel test. When I retested it on a gameport (on windows millennium), I "unloaded" the profile software (which I hadn't tweaked shift-functionality on anyway), and ...

Blightcp, I'm no expert in the hardware, but I did build it myself from the same instructions you used. Here are my (expected?) results: When I plug it into power and then connect the USB, I instantly get the power LED on the joystick itself to light, and it stays on until I unplug it from USB or ...

That looks great mozgy! Thanks, also, for showing us an easy way to make a pcb without stringing out wires on a protoboard (the way I did). Seeedstudio's "Fusion PCB" looks useful. Services like that can always come in handy. :) Being a free software enthusiast, myself, I'd probably try creating and ...

You're welcome. I hope it's working for you.

The non-r54 version is from the svn (i.e. very latest) code available on 11/08/2014. Because it was not a release, they had enabled debugging, so I disabled it for my build. The r54 release didn't need anything changed to disable debugging, so I built it with only my buttons modification. In the ...

Sure, I'd be happy to help. I built one of these from the r54 revision with my added changes, and the other from the revision I checked out 11/08/2014 with my added changes (and an extra change - I forget where- to disable the debug code which slowed responsiveness a lot). I hope these are useful ...

I solved my problem with the shift button (button 9) not working the same on USB as it does on gameport, Saturday after looking at the code for a couple hours and tinkering. I created an issue with the suggested code change here: https://code.google.com/p/adapt-ffb-joy/issues/detail?id=15 . I hope ...

Yes, that makes a lot of sense. I'm still uncertain whether I would want to assign the extra buttons that I can't "press" to shift-process buttons, because I don't know why they're there in the first place. I'll have to check the force feedback test diagnostic again to decide which buttons I would ...

I'm happy to leave it as solved. Soon after I posted, however, I realized that the tenth button probably could be made into a hardware button-shifter fairly easily with the right programming, but I don't think I have the time to look into it now. It shouldn't break compatibility with games, since ...

Thanks DBB Ace, you're brilliant! Your response seems fast to me, and I don't intend for you work on this over the holidays if you don't want to. The firmware I used first was adaptffbjoy-r54.hex and now I'm on a self-compiled variant of r74 (with debugging disabled to improve my joystick's ...

I've built the circuit and programmed it with both the stable and then the latest (self-compiled) firmware. I think I must have done something wrong building the circuit, because the shift button acts as a separate button and doesn't double each other button's functionality. I doubt this is normal ...