13. July 2008, 15:12:07

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Mr RayfordQuote

Is there a way to configure a 360 game pad to work woth SS2, I need to improve my console FPS skills.

13. July 2008, 19:52:49

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KolyaQuote

I have no idea. It might be possible if you find a software that emulates the stick as mouse movements. But you'd still miss a lot of keys. SS2 isn't an FPS. It might be easier to just train on a console FPS game and come back to SS2 when you're bored of the mindless fun.

13. July 2008, 20:38:40

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Mr RayfordQuote

good point

10. August 2008, 19:41:54

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R-800Quote

Quote by Mr Rayford:

good point

Quote by Mr Rayford:

Is there a way to configure a 360 game pad to work woth SS2, I need to improve my console FPS skills.

Mr Rayford, you're in luck.  Not only is there a way to use your Xbox 360 controller with System Shock 2, but there is actually a rather phenomenal little program that lets you use your 360 controller with literally any app that knows how to receive keyboard or mouse inputs of any kind.  This program is called Xpadder, and it's really hard to believe how amazing it is.

http://www.xpadder.com/download.html

Xpadder is especially useful with older games that cannot have their key configurations remapped, or don't have much support for joysticks or other sophisticated gaming hardware.  What Xpadder does is simply map keyboard and mouse inputs to the Xbox 360 controller.  Anything you could ordinarily do with either the keyboard or the mouse (or both at once) can be mapped to the 360 controller.  There are even features that let you hold, toggle or switch to other pre-mapped keysets at the touch of a single controller button, vastly expanding the number of functions that you can get out of your controller, if you're clever enough to work out a really good setup.  Just the fact that you can map the mouse directions to an analog stick is amazing enough, especially since I can't seem to find any software programs anywhere that allow me to remap general mouse functions to any other input device directly.

This simple and tiny program runs in the background, and is active as soon as you open it (or load a new profile).  No further initiation is required.  It's ready to go.

I was pretty excited to discover this tool, because it was tremendously helpful to me for making SS1's control scheme truly playable.  Since it was initially developed by a gamer just like the rest of us, I suppose the usefulness of the program should come as no surprise to anyone.  But I just can't get over how much it turned my frown upside-down after discovering how useless the default Windows drivers were for the 360 controller.  It became the solution to all my problems. 

R-800 

10. August 2008, 20:00:57

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Mr RayfordQuote

That program is amazing. I have a usable layout for SS2 on a 360 controller, but it's kind of impractical to play the whole game on a controller. Things like hacking become really hard to do on the fly. But, it doesn’t override you bindings so you can switch between your controller and keyboard when it's necessary. If you want, I could upload it, see what you guy's think of it.