FF7 Controller Problem

[Kaotic Soul]

Is there anyway to get controllers to work in FF7?

[Aaron]

I'm assuming that you're using a USB controller, and that you're using Windows XP.  If not, please give us more details on your system configuration.

Some people have successfully gotten USB controllers to work with FF7 in Windows XP.  Go to the Game Controllers control panel, hit the "Advanced" button, and make sure the preferred device is set to the device that you want to use with FF7.

Maybe someone else knows more.

[Kaotic Soul]

I've got both a usb and a gameport controller(Sidewinder matter of fact )and neither of them works, I have windows xp,I've already tried the perferred device setting and still nothing.

[sanjiyan]

I had this issue before in xp, it is one of three things:

1) usb controlller is not being detected
    Try unplugging and replugging the gamepad. Listen for the "good connection" sound. If you get that sound, the gamepad should work. Try testing the controller in Start->Control Panel->Game Controllers to make sure it works. Try other games as well. Also, be sure the plug in your usb controller before you start FF7 or any game. To be sure no other usb controllers are confilcting, make sure you're using only one usb gamepad or joystick.

2) controls not configured properly
    Go to Config in FF7 and remap your controller's buttons to the game options. Switching to different controllers may leave the old mapping in place.

3) win98/95 compatiblity mode
    win98 and win95 compatibility mode disables usb controllers from interfacing with most games. Make sure FF7 has no compatiblity mode active before starting the game.

--Sir Sanjiyan

[Kaotic Soul]

My contoller worked fine untill I used the Riva/Tnt patch

[Aaron]

The best solution is often to use the Riva/TNT patched FF7Config.exe but use the original FF7.exe.  Are you doing this?

[Kaotic Soul]

Yeah, I'm doing that.

[CRUZGT2003]

can someone post a LINK in here to get that graphics TNT config.exe?  Thanks!

[Threesixty]

....resurrecting the dead is bad..... And January was very long time ago....

The TNT patch is at Eidos.
http://www.eidosinteractive.com/support/search.html?gmid=44

On the very, very, very bottom....

OH yeah....it's....it's probably on your install disk, too. Hidden in one of the directories

[Contra]

I have basicly the same setup. Gameport sidewinder and a USB gamepad. To get it to work, I had to completely take the sidewinder out of the system. Unplugging it, and removing it from the game controlers control panel.

You can try that.

[Threesixty]

Contra.....your talking to the dead, you know........or to yourself.

[Contra]

Eep. *reads a bit more carefully* Shutting Up.

[Astaldoath]

I checked my app.log and i dont have a ff7input.cfg, how can I get one or can someone give me theirs? I tried making a basic text file but it doesnt help.

[Synergy Blades]

Hello. You're new, so please read the rules. Specifically, you've revived a two year old dead topic. One for the top 10 of resurrections, perhaps.

Moving on to your question, you can find ff7input.cfg in your main Final Fantasy VII directory where you installed the game.

[Astaldoath]

sorry bout that, I dont have one in my main directory. I dont have one anywhere

[Synergy Blades]

You don't have one? Have you ever changed the Config to adjust the keyboard at all or are you just stuck with the default? Try changing the key config in the game and exiting, see if it creates one for you then to accomodate your custom keys.