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Magic dosbox gravis gamepad11/7/2023 That's the way the game was intended to be played, after all. To be absolutely clear, this is not the ideal way to play these games, and if a flight stick & keyboard is feasible for you, that will absolutely be your best bet. So given the new-found interest in these games, my hope is that making them (somewhat) playable on a controller might just make them a bit more accessible, so I just thought I'd share. The very idea of playing X-Wing or TIE Fighter on a controller seemed completely absurd.īut is it? After thinking it over all day Tuesday, and after a few failed attempts to cram the incredibly complex X-Wing/TIE Fighter control scheme onto an Xbox 360 controller without turning my hands into a pretzel, I eventually managed to find a configuration that I think works pretty well. One thing I did know for certain, having played the game for countless hours as a lad, was that the controls were far too complex to map to a gamepad. What am I supposed to do, dig out my old Gravis and put it on a dinner tray? Play on my shitty little laptop and let my big screen go to waste? As incredibly excited as I was to play these games again, I just wasn't sure what I was going to do control-wise. With X-Wing and TIE Fighter having been unexpectedly re-released this week, and me with my gaming PC in my living room hooked up to my TV, I found myself in a bit of a pickle regarding how I should play two of my favorite PC games of all time.
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