SideWinder Force Feedback Pro drivers for win 10?

[elf25s]

SideWinder Force Feedback Pro
found it though i lost it and power brick is heavier that joystick used to play mechwarrior 3 with it...
lost the driver disc  it cracked any one can help finding the drivers for this monster?

[Bedwyr]

I did a little bit of poking and found these links including a GitHub repo project:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hotas/comments/hvrzl9/help_with_adaptffbjoy/

https://github.com/tloimu/adapt-ffb-joy

I don't know if the joystick is detected automatically or not; maybe this will help?

Is it old enough that it connects to a serial port? If so there are serial to usb adapters and I've used those in robotics work some years back:

https://www.amazon.com/FTDI-US232R-100-CABLE-RS232-SERIAL/dp/B00DK85Q6M

Adafruit has a USB-C to serial converter cable:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5446

Adafruit probably has some educational resources to tackle what once was a serial DB-9 connection on PCs and products including the FTDI chips needed to do the translating if you're up for even more DIY solutions.

[elf25s]

thanks but the one  have is usb cable it last run of it so it has no serial port and i totally forgot that tf joy i will see this week end if it works..

[Greatclub]

How did the hacking go? Did you successfully bridge the generations of hardware?