Arcade stick questions

[Traditional Dumpling Experience]

Hi. I have a PS3 Tournament Edition Madcatz Fightstick that worked fine on my old Windows 7 computer. I now have a Windows 8 computer and can't get my fightstick to work. The system recognizes it it just doesn't work when I run Street Fighter 4. I think I saw something about needing a 4.0 USB(or something?)

Any help is appreciated.

[Yeloazndevil]

arcane eh, I guess you want an arcade/fight stick that isn't known at all

that is odd since it should work fine in win8

that stick would only need usb2.0 and 4.0 doesn't exist, 3.1 is the highest

only thing I can think of is the usb chipset your pc uses just doesn't like your stick, have you tried different usb ports to see if it works on those?

does anything work when you try the stick? buttons work?

[Lechuck's Beard]

Have you made sure the switch at the top left is in the correct place? (think it switches the stick from PC to PS3 mode). Been a while since I used mine so I might not be accurate in that.

On my previous rig and and my current rig, I had to buy a via chipset to get my stick going. The buttons would register in the device manager, but not the stick. Had zero effect in games.

[Andrellibus]

No it will not work natively, almost all ps3 sticks will not work because they are direct input and at the moment sfv doesn't support direct inpunt, only x-input.
You will need to use a 3rd party software like joy2key or x360ce to use it.
The usb port has nothing to do with the fact it won't work...

[epiales]

Looks like I'm gonna have to just refund and go grab the PS4 version after seeing all this. That's a real bummer.

[HardcoreMalta]

Still wont work, get a Xbox one version, them you wont be needing any 3rd party software.

[Emy]

Nothing to do with SFV, but your new PC not recognizing the stick has to do with your hardware not with the OS. The PS3 uses some proprietary extensions to the USB spec which are not supported on a large number of USB chipsets. You need a USB card which supports these extensions. It's been a long time since that's been relevant to me, unfortunately, so I don't remember the details, but SRK's Tech Talk forum would know.

The statement about SFV's input framework support is also true, so you should probably go ahead and upgrade (or mod) your stick.

[epiales]

Originally posted by HardcoreMalta:

Still wont work, get a Xbox one version, them you wont be needing any 3rd party software.

I use the HORI Real Arcade Pro 4 Premium VLX made for PS4/PS3/PC, kind of impossible to use any other stick after this one as it's the gold standard and it's the licensed replica from the proper cabinets in japan. I meant literally just go buy the PS4 version and play that instead.

This stick works flawless on PC with every other game I've played, including USFIV. I think it was just probably some gross oversight by one of the QA depts and they'll patch it in later. I just really prefer to use my stick now, no hard feelings with the PC version for me. I can come back to it once they get the game up to speed with PS4. Hopefully soon!

[JackSherak]

My fighstick did not work with the USb chipset on my motherboard (it recognised it but the inputs did nothing) to overcome this I installed a USB PC experess card with a differnet usb chipset, this sorted the problem. I do no tknow if it will work for SFV because I have a xbox stick now.

[Vicious]

Oh wait, does the game have Dinput support now? I have a PS3 TE2 stick, and it didnt work during the beta.

[epiales]

Originally posted by Vicious:

Oh wait, does the game have Dinput support now? I have a PS3 TE2 stick, and it didnt work during the beta.

Apparently not, as my HORI isn't gonna work it looks like. I'm just gonna head to the PS4 version until they implement all the features of the game on PC.

[Hardc0re]

Worst come to worst, download joy2key or another similar program

[Quint]

Well, go into your Game Controllers window through control panel, click on your stick and click 'Properties' Press buttons and move the stick, if you see the buttons light up on the test screen then you just need to use a program like people have been saying. However, if nothing lights up joy2key nor x360ce will do you any good. The MadCatz PS3 sticks never had great PC compatability and sometimes upgrading OS can stop them from working.

My stick is the Marvel vs Capcom 2 TE PS3 stick, it worked fine on Windows 7, but apparantly once I upgraded to Windows 10 the drivers in the stick weren't compatable anymore. I had to buy a converter, the one I got was the Brook PS3 to PS4 Super Converter, bought it through their ebay page. This allowed my inputs to register again, then supplement it with x360ce to work.

[Traditional Dumpling Experience]

I plug it in and it recognizes it as PC USB Wired Stick 8838 but when I go to properties to test it it doesn't recognize any buttons or stick movements.

[\\\RedBaron///]

USB 2.0 PCI Controller Card VIA Chipset
http://www.amazon.com/SYBA-SD-VIA-5U-5-port-Controller-Chipset/dp/B008N4LVTE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1455650929&sr=8-2&keywords=via+USB+card+chipset

To get your PS3 TE Stick to work under Windows you need to install a USB card with the VIA Chipset. I had to do this back years ago when SF4 originally came out on PC. This card worked for me under Windows 7 for a long time. I have yet to test it in my new Windows 10 rig but will soon.

I've been able to use my PS3 TE Stick in PC SF4, PC USF4, and all PC KOF's. The fact that Street Fighter 5 doesn't allow you to use MOST arcade sticks in this day in age is the BIGGEST BALL DROPPED OF ALL TIME. I'm a developer and we added Dinput support in 1 day to a steam title! So Capcom don't even try to tell me of any technical hurdles.

[Velarune]

It's Madcatz. They severely screwed us over, like they tend to do. Early PS3 sticks aren't compatible with PC's. They use USB 1.1 UHCI which is like a very rare thing that isn't really supported anymore. You might get lucky and find a motherboard or a USB expansion card that supports it, but eventually you'll want to just look into finding a better solution.

I have an SE version of the PS3 fightstick and it's never worked on my computers. I tested it on my new system here a few months ago in preparation for this game and it actually worked when plugged into a USB 3.0 port, but now that the game released and I decided to play it, for some reason the stick doesn't work again.

So I've had enough and ordered a new PCB from Xgaming, which is compatible with PC's and every console. It's going to replace all the electronics in my stick. I already upgraded the stick and buttons with Sanwa stuff a few years back. The only thing left over which is Madcatz will be the casing which I'm sure I'll replace at some point.