Required a joystick to play?

[Kaiser Ducky]

Whenever I open the game (after selecting the campaign), a message pops-up saying a joystick is not detected, making it unable to play. There's no option to set the controls to keyboard and mouse. What should I do?

[FloosWorld]

Get yourself a gamepad or a joystick. The original CD Version even refused to start when no joystick was plugged into the PC.

[LarsenB]

Strictly required, just like it was in the old days (it's in the store page too, even though it could be highlighted a bit more, i guess)

If you don't have a device like that, you could try to work a little magic with your mouse coupled with vJoy[vjoystick.sourceforge.net], but i'm not sure it would be a comfortable setup

[villarroel.cvd]

I have a dualshock 4 and I'm not able to use it in the game even though it works fine for others games. Any ideas?

[MaskMan191]

Play with a joysticki. Logitech Wingman attack 2 works fine, you can probably find one at a thrift store if you look hard enough. Found mine at Half Price Books.

[*****]

The latest ddraw wrapper (see 3D Acceleration Fix thread) should allow you to play with keyboard or mouse if it detects that you do not have a joystick.
It only works so-so though in my opinion (and that even though I am not really a fan of joysticks).