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Doubts about Thrustmaster joystick and gameport connection

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First post, by ramiro77

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Hi guys. I found a local supplier for Thrustmaster Top Gun Fox 2 gameport joysticks. There are NOS in sealed boxes. The vendor asks pennies for them and I want to know if I can connect two of those at same time in a gameport. I googled this and I read somewhere that if the driver is correctly implemented, I can connect two 8 button joysticks at same time. But I never used any joysticks in my rigs before so I want to ask you first before spend money.

Thank you guys!

Reply 1 of 4, by Davros

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windows games do not support multiple devices, and generally dos joysticks dont use drivers so your limited to 2 buttons on each stick
and a total of 4 axis each topgun pro has 3 axis x/y and throttle (maybe a twist rudder so 4 axis) so that will cause you problems
explain why you want 2 sticks and what games you intend to play and what o/s

Last edited by Davros on 2016-02-12, 15:25. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 2 of 4, by ramiro77

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Ok, fine. Thank you davros!
I wasn't expecting anything in particular. I just wanted to know if there is any chance to use two joysticks in one gameport exceeding it's capabilities as I read somewhere. I'll just buy one of these joysticks for me and I'll keep looking for two button gamepads for multiplayer gaming.

Reply 3 of 4, by Davros

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So you want to use them for multiplayer gaming (splitscreen ? are there many splitscreen pc games ?) the ms sidewinder could be daisychanied (never tried it so do some research before buying)

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