Emulating POV on a Joystick - Battlefield series oriented

The purpose of this tutorial is to emulate a POV - Hat switch on a joystick , even without one .

We'll be using a small progam called joy2key .

You can download it here.

I'm using a Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick USB 1.

Basically we will configure one button to act like a switch : when you press it , you will be able to press other button at the same time , thus improving the number of buttons available .

You can download my configuration files here ( md5 ) .

So extract the joytokey program and place the configuration files on the same folder . The progam will automatically load the .cfg files .


What to edit

( In POV - Joystick 1 )
.The switch button is currently Button 6 ( change that accordingly to your needs )

( In POV - Joystick 2 )
.Look right is Button 5
.Look left is Button 7
.Look up is Button 1 (Fire)

And that's it . To emulate the POV , just press and hold the switch and then one of the directions.

To play , start the JoyToKey and minimize it .


For BF1 / BF2 players :


Besides running the JtKey with the POV.cfg , open up another JtKey this time with the file Ctrl.cfg ( Ctrl is configured the same as the switch button ).

Now go fly some planes :-)