I am hoping this is the right place for this comment. I have been sitting chomping at the bit for months waiting for the new MSFS 2020. I was up waiting for the download to open and did so finally at 4:30 in the morning on the 18th. My disappointment was once getting it I could not get it to work wi…

Look on utube for video how to set up squirrel has good videos about ms202

Dear Elton, I am a private pilot and a huge FS fan since version 98. I also use the Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 Joystick and to my surprise, it doesn’t work! That’s because we’re using a Microsoft peripheral with a Microsoft game…:enraged_face::face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

Hi. I also use Microsoft’s Sidewinder and although it couldn’t identify it in the settings it still allowed me to assign buttons. Working fine for me at the moment. Eldon

I use the same stick and in the alpha/beta phase it worked (but without force feedback). I hope it still does in the final version (waiting for the download to complete).

Hi Eldon - tell me more! I cannot make my MS Force Feedback Joystick work. Is this different than your Sidewider? Thanks for the post.

So basically when I go into my control settings, Sidewinder comes up as one of my controls but it has one of those large question mark symbols where the image of the control should be. I basically ignored that, ensured I had the Sidewinder control selected at the top of the controls menu and in the…

Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 In game, Options, Controls. Select your SFF2. Set Filter to “All” Find the action you want in the main list and click in the first empty box. (Ex Ailerons Axis) In pop-up window “Select an input” (the drop down lists avail button numbers and axis etc) Choos…

How did you set-up external views without conflict with regular hat settings?

There was no conflict. It seems to act as a separate control set from cockpit. Smooth as can be hehe.

Thanks for the tips! I’ve successfully configured my both sidewinder. Force Feedback 2 to main controls and Precision Racing Wheel pedals as rudder

Microsoft Sidewinder 2 Joystick

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If you’ve got a MSFFB2 Sidewinder I can’t recommend this app highly enough.

Enables true ffb in MSFS2024 and X-Plane 12.