Hi all

I took my little tool for Force Feedback and turned it into something interesting. I hope you all like it. It's free, privacy respecting, no telemetry, no cloud, runs locally. Let me know if you have questions.

Force-feedback is back! You can use an old force-feedback joystick with X-Plane 11 and 12.

Built for the Microsoft Sidewinder ForceFeedback v2, the tool also supports many other sticks.

It reads live telemetry from XP and drives the motors in your force-feedback joystick — a full flight-model force model, not a rumble effect. It’s free, runs locally, designed to be privacy-first and user-respecting, and needs no account.

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Real force feedback, back in the cockpit — FFB-Bridge drives the SideWinder Force Feedback 2 straight from MSFS.

What it works with

• Simulators: MSFS 2024 and MSFS 2020 (over SimConnect), plus X-Plane 11/12 (UDP). The active sim is auto-detected on startup.

• Hardware: the Microsoft SideWinder Force Feedback 2 is the primary, plug-and-play stick, along with the Logitech Force 3D Pro, WingMan Force 3D, and Flight System G940. You can also enable other force-feedback joysticks experimentally to try all other sticks. More hardware will be validated in time.

• Platforms: Windows and Linux for MSFS; a signed macOS (Apple Silicon) build is available for X-Plane.

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Tune every effect, or just pick a control-system feel — Manual, Hydraulic-boosted, or Fly-by-wire — per aircraft.

What you actually feel

• A centring force that loads up under G and shifts to where you’ve trimmed

• Airspeed-loaded pitch and roll forces — the controls get heavier with speed

• Stall buffet and a stall stick-shaker, overspeed and Mach buffets

• Runway rumble (by surface type), touchdown thump, gear bumps, brake shudder

• Engine rumble (from the sim’s own per-engine vibration when reported)

• Gear-deploy and flap-extension shudders, spoiler and turbulence buffets

• A per-aircraft control-system feel selector — Manual, Hydraulic-boosted, or Fly-by-wire — so a trainer and an airliner feel different

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Per-aircraft profiles with auto-select, plus a free community Profile Library to browse and download.

How it works

No plugin and nothing to install inside the sim — FFB-Bridge runs alongside it and reads telemetry over UDP. It ships with starter profiles for common aircraft, supports per-aircraft auto-select, and has a free community Profile Library you can browse and download from.

Local-first by design: no account, no telemetry, no cloud. The Windows installer and macOS build are code-signed.

Get it

Downloads for every platform: https://ffb-bridge.com/
Docs and setup guide: https://ffb-bridge.com/docs

Support

• Email: [email protected]

• Community forum: https://ffb-bridge.com/community

• Feedback Form: https://ffb-bridge.com/feedback

Wow!

🙏

It's been a long time since I last used a Sidewinder FFB, and I never used a FFB again after that, but this tempts me to find one somwehere around the World :-)

THANK YOU !

6 hours ago, jcomm said:

Wow!

🙏

It's been a long time since I last used a Sidewinder FFB, and I never used a FFB again after that, but this tempts me to find one somwehere around the World :-)

THANK YOU !

I know I’m the developer and therefore biased - but I strongly recommend buying one on eBay. These sticks are cheap and the software really does make them amazing. And it’s totally free..