27th January 2005, 2:06 PM
Keyboard mapping? Ick! That works badly if it works at all... I've used it before and never found it to work well. Also, you won't find that on bargain-bin gamepads for sure... yeah, mine has it, but I've only found it a feasible feature when used to compliment gamepad controls -- like in Lost Vikings where the game supports only a 4-button gamepad on a 6-button game so I mapped the other two commands to gamepad buttons. That works. But when I have to map the d-pad as well... I've tried it, with Norse by Norsewest (Lost Vikings 2, which idiotically has no gamepad support on PC). It's not like real gamepad controls and is much harder to control... honestly, I almost find it easier to play that game on keyboard... it just doesn't control quite right! I think it's about the number of buttons you can press at once and how mapping buttons to axes is not the same as a d-pad.