I think I know the answer but will post anyway in hopes that someone can advise me. I just got back from Circuit City and was a sucker for a neat looking Saitek Joystick. My old one was a simple CH joystick but with the old heavy duty CH rudder pedals. Of course, now with a USB joystick and an old set of gameport rudder pedals my pedals are useless right? I may take this fancy shmansy stick back just to get my stick and rudder combo back. Tell me it ain't so even though I know it is so. Next step, all new controls.

Hi.>it ain't soTwo solutions:1-Get a Gameport to USB converter from Rshack.2-Use your pedals on the Gameport with a dummy joystick. TV

Just plug the pedals joystick plug into the pedals Aux socket and choose ch pedals in the control panel joysticks app, it will show as a seperate controller.I am using the gameport pedals with a saitek evo force.

Thanks. You both have given me some good options. I am going to try the Aux socket first. What to you mean by Aux socket? How do you like the Saitek Evo Force? I almost got one of those. This one is a 290. I did like the way all buttons were logically assigned upon plugging in.

Basically when you have plugged the pedals into the gameport you are left with two other plugs one labeled joystick the other labeled aux, just plug these two together, This makes the pedals into a stand alone unit, you will also be able to use toe brakes now, check the CH site for a better explanation.The Evo force is very nice,I have disabled the fs2004 force effects and am using a program called FS Force instead which gives much better forces and is able to customise the forces for each aircraft individually.

>Basically when you have plugged the pedals into the gameport>you are left with two other plugs one labeled joystick the>other labeled aux, just plug these two together, This makes>the pedals into a stand alone unit, you will also be able to>use toe brakes now, check the CH site for a better>explanation.>The Evo force is very nice,I have disabled the fs2004 force>effects and am using a program called FS Force instead which>gives much better forces and is able to customise the forces >for each aircraft individually.Got it. This is great. Working fine. Now, if I could just figure out how to get toe brakes working.

Hi, Bob.To get the Toe brakes you need to:1-Assign them in Your Options>Axes2-Calibrate your pedals.To calibrate, in XP, you can start with the pedals half way, talking about the toe axes, then when you are asked to press a button just use your Mouse to go to the next step. This calibration can be tricky. I start half way, then I go right foot all the way, hold it there, left foot back, right foot back, left foot all the way, in such a way to describe a complete circle and end up with both pedals centered. It

Ok, I will give that a try. So, let me see if I understand it. Calibrate in XP the pedals. The two buttons of the two button mouse, the pedals, are the breakes. You then calibrate the pedal movement itself. I still may get the USB adapter since it sounds cleaner. But, I tried assigning the toe brakes in FS with no success. Here I go again. I will probably come back with more questions. Thanks.

Ok, no luck on the toe brakes. You say it is easier to calibrate them with the Gameport to USB convertor from Radio Shack? Maybe I will pick up one of those. It sounds like it makes a cleaner installation. I can assign the left and right, x and y, axes to the toe brakes when in FS but the assignments will not accept the reverse check box. If I check it and then move to the other axis assignment the check box disappears. I am really happy with the setup now and thank you all for your advice but I still would like to get my toe brakes working.