I recently found a MS Sidewinder Precision Pro at Goodwill for $2. It even had the USB dongle, so I bought it. It has this weird little issue though, present in both Win98SE and WinXP:

When connecting it via the gameport, it shows up as having 10 buttons with the 9th button not working. As the stick only has 9 buttons, this is clearly incorrect.
When connecting it via the USB dongle, it shows up correctly with 9 buttons.

Have any other MS Precision Pro owners out there ever noticed this?
It's not really much of a problem, since I can always just plug it in with the USB dongle or just ignore the non-functional 9th button in gameport mode.

Also, MS seems to have pulled their download page for the Sidewinder software.
Does anybody have a good link to the most recent version of the Sidewinder software? From what I can find, it looks like v3.02 was the final version for Win9x.

Thanks! 😀

Edit: For any others who may be looking, I found the MS Sidewinder Software v3.02 here. If you don't want to deal with the silly cnet/download.com installer, there's a direct link to the software here and here.