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X-Wing required a joystick.

bradgranath 3y ago
But you could use a mouse. It was a totally different, extremely horrible game if you did, tho.
kelnos 3y ago
Huh, weird. I just launched XW, XvT, and XWA via Steam and you're right; they all bailed out immediately saying a joystick was required. So I'm definitely misremembering something. I do recall breaking a mouse on a game where a joystick was recommended, but it must have been something older. Or back then I'd found some sort of hack/mod that allowed you to play via mouse; not sure if that's plausible, though. I found a random Steam forum post where someone claims they played the original XvT without a joystick, not sure if that's a reliable anecdote, though.
- Agingcoder 3y ago
  I remember playing with the keyboard. My memory might be playing tricks with me, but at that time joystick were certainly not a standard feature of pcs. Edit: I did use the keyboard/mouse http://wiki.rebelsquadrons.org/index.php/Xwing_Keyboard_Commands http://wiki.rebelsquadrons.org/index.php/Xwing_Keyboard_Comm... Edit2: there are two versions : the original 1993 version I played (dos based, doesn’t require a joystick) and a remake I didn’t know existed (1998, windows based ) which does require a joystick
  - jauntywundrkind 3y ago
    I don't think that's true. I am almost certain the DOS version requires a joystick. And it has a huge keyboard binding list of all sorts of essential things you had to do. It absolutely was pretty unusual to require a joystick. I had to beg my parents to help pay some of the cost & I think they helped me get a classic Sidewinder 3D (Pro?). I don't even know if we had a sound card that it could plug into or if I ended up getting a sound are too for it? Plus the cost of the game... It was incredibly expensive & difficult for me to get X-Wing. But it was, like, my mission to make it happen, & eventually I did. Tie Fighter came out not long after I finally got X-Wing going & after another year or two I did manage to buy that game too!

But you could use a mouse. It was a totally different, extremely horrible game if you did, tho.

Huh, weird. I just launched XW, XvT, and XWA via Steam and you're right; they all bailed out immediately saying a joystick was required. So I'm definitely misremembering something. I do recall breaking a mouse on a game where a joystick was recommended, but it must have been something older. Or back then I'd found some sort of hack/mod that allowed you to play via mouse; not sure if that's plausible, though. I found a random Steam forum post where someone claims they played the original XvT without a joystick, not sure if that's a reliable anecdote, though.

Agingcoder 3y ago
I remember playing with the keyboard. My memory might be playing tricks with me, but at that time joystick were certainly not a standard feature of pcs. Edit: I did use the keyboard/mouse http://wiki.rebelsquadrons.org/index.php/Xwing_Keyboard_Commands http://wiki.rebelsquadrons.org/index.php/Xwing_Keyboard_Comm... Edit2: there are two versions : the original 1993 version I played (dos based, doesn’t require a joystick) and a remake I didn’t know existed (1998, windows based ) which does require a joystick
- jauntywundrkind 3y ago
  I don't think that's true. I am almost certain the DOS version requires a joystick. And it has a huge keyboard binding list of all sorts of essential things you had to do. It absolutely was pretty unusual to require a joystick. I had to beg my parents to help pay some of the cost & I think they helped me get a classic Sidewinder 3D (Pro?). I don't even know if we had a sound card that it could plug into or if I ended up getting a sound are too for it? Plus the cost of the game... It was incredibly expensive & difficult for me to get X-Wing. But it was, like, my mission to make it happen, & eventually I did. Tie Fighter came out not long after I finally got X-Wing going & after another year or two I did manage to buy that game too!