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Hey, I'm at my parents' house and had my first couple of beers. I brought my laptop with both my steering wheel and arcade fighting joystick. So, I had this bright idea. What if I used the stick to shift? This is the only thing I miss about my old Thrustmaster, the gear shifter that was a part of the wheel. I normally use the F1 paddles on my Genius Wheel to shift.

I tried it in DTR2, but it only picks up the joystick on top, which turned out to be my arcade stick. I found a joystick to key mapping program made by a Japanese guy from off the internet. I was able to use both devices simultaneously in DTR2, but there was one problem:

If I wanted to use the wheel, I had to map the axis and buttons to keys, you know what this means?

It's digital, no better than a keyboard or an SNES controller.

I had realistic shifting, but the wheel and pedals were making me spin out.
Now if the wheel were on top, I could pull off analog steering and throttle.
But I searched and Googled, and it appears there's no way to change it in Windows 7.

The most tragic thing is, this joystick shifting thing with analog steering and throttle, actually works in r-Overrated-factor, since it supports 2 joysticks with DTR2 supporting only one at a time. Damn! Only things that this specific overrated game has the edge on are: Toggling names above cars completely, better graphics, bigger fields of cars, and this issue. Otherwise, I'm fine with DTR2.

theres more than just that, rfaxxtor has black flags for (bleep)heads, the layout of racing on rfaxxtor is much more professional
and realistic, somewhat realistic damage, your car can start on fire, your car hikes up when you get on the throttle, the sprint car mod pulls the wheels off the ground and doesn't handle like a pos, you can change almost everything on rfaxxtor you cant on dtr2, engine sound is more realistic, you dont have bullshit shiftin up and down every turn, shift up and done should be how it is, driving on 2 wheels, more body roll on rfaxxtor in the corner, be able to save your car if your on 2 wheels, circular outside and inside walls, doesnt take a hour to qualify 40 people that it would in dtr2, i could think more btw.

Yeah, both are fun!

DTR2's more on the arcadey side.