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I can't get my joystick to work in Prophecys.

I was toldto use ALT o but that does not work ,I tried ALT 0 as well,no dice.

Do gog actually go over these games?

Not likely.

Issues with every game lol.
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Smasha: I can't get my joystick to work in Prophecys.

I was toldto use ALT o but that does not work ,I tried ALT 0 as well,no dice.

Do gog actually go over these games?

Not likely.

Issues with every game lol.
What stick?
Works perfectly fine here, with or without a profiling software

Note that the ALT-O suggestion is something related to WC3-4, not Prophecy; the option screen can be accessed via the normal ESC menu, and under the gameplay icon (bottom one on the right) you'll find all the control options
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Smasha: I can't get my joystick to work in Prophecys.

I was toldto use ALT o but that does not work ,I tried ALT 0 as well,no dice.

Do gog actually go over these games?

Not likely.

Issues with every game lol.
Shot in the dark here, I was having issues with joystick detection in another WC game.
The issue was I had a USB Gamepad connected as well.
The game detected the joysticks on the gamepad as primary and ignored my HOTAS controller.
Just an idea, no idea if it's relevant.
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Smasha: I can't get my joystick to work in Prophecys.

I was toldto use ALT o but that does not work ,I tried ALT 0 as well,no dice.

Do gog actually go over these games?

Not likely.

Issues with every game lol.
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Xnemth: Shot in the dark here, I was having issues with joystick detection in another WC game.
The issue was I had a USB Gamepad connected as well.
The game detected the joysticks on the gamepad as primary and ignored my HOTAS controller.
Just an idea, no idea if it's relevant.
I'm not the OP, but I had the same issue and unplugging my Xbox 360 controller (as well as the separate throttle device for my HOTAS) fixed the issue. I can now play WC with joystick just fine and it's glorious!
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Smasha: I can't get my joystick to work in Prophecys.

I was toldto use ALT o but that does not work ,I tried ALT 0 as well,no dice.

Do gog actually go over these games?

Not likely.

Issues with every game lol.
this game was designed for a true flight stick joystick, so if your not using one of those its not going work unless you know how to remap every key command to game-pad which takes some intelligence , which you don't seem to have.
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Smasha: I can't get my joystick to work in Prophecys.

I was toldto use ALT o but that does not work ,I tried ALT 0 as well,no dice.

Do gog actually go over these games?

Not likely.

Issues with every game lol.
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apraix74: this game was designed for a true flight stick joystick, so if your not using one of those its not going work unless you know how to remap every key command to game-pad which takes some intelligence , which you don't seem to have.
any chance you can point a fella in the right direction? particularly for DualShock 4 on Mac?
Keep the Age of the Games in Mind. We talk about 90s Games. At that Time nobody had USB Joystick Devices. There were Gameport Joysticks and they have been a single device.

So these games expect a single device that is the 1st and only device. This is the reason why you need to unplug other devices.

But there is another solution: use vjoy probably in combination with joystick gremlin. This allows you to combine two or more devices with all of its axes and buttons to a single virtual device. You can even map Keyboard Keys to Triggers/Buttons. If you combine it with another Tool called HIDGuardian, you are able to hide all the seperate USB devices and show only your virtual vjoy device (remember: this merges your different device axes and buttons into the one and only virtual device). This is what an old game needs. Even newer games like Battlefield 4 need such a treatment or you can't use your expansive Toys.

You can't expect to do GoG all of this for you. It won't fit because no one knows which Joysticks you use. Do it like in the good old days: learn to deal with that issues and find solutions. We had to deal with Memory Management and Interrupts that had been shared between soundcards and LPT Ports. Some of us had to deal with General MIDI or Roland stuff and all of its issues. So don't fear that tiny Joystick configurations for old games.
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Smasha: I can't get my joystick to work in Prophecys.

I was toldto use ALT o but that does not work ,I tried ALT 0 as well,no dice.

Do gog actually go over these games?

Not likely.

Issues with every game lol.
I can only speak for myself but I was able to use my Thrustmaster Flightstick just fine in the entire Xwing series and Wing Commander series that I bought on gog. I'm sorry that you're having trouble. Maybe get a different flight stick?

FR4GGL3 is right. Games like this, even when they load in gog, tend to need some tweaking. It's the nature of the beast with old games like this. Luckily forums like this have many people sharing tweaks and fixes that they've discovered and you can really find solutions to just about any problem by doing a little internet searching. I recently did a full playthrough of WC3 and WC4. Both games needed some tweaking but once I got them working, they played well and I was able to finish them with little to no fuss.
Post edited June 24, 2021 by vezner
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Smasha: I can't get my joystick to work in Prophecys.

I was toldto use ALT o but that does not work ,I tried ALT 0 as well,no dice.

Do gog actually go over these games?

Not likely.

Issues with every game lol.
EDIT: My bad, wrong game, read as WC3/4
Post edited July 09, 2021 by Fat_Barry
If you want to use HOTAS, Download Dosbox ECE.
Also WC3 for windows is better for Stick support