Alien front online racing wheel not recognized

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Alien front online racing wheel not recognized

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Hello,

I've just tried to play alien front online with my mad katz mc2 racing wheel to be closer to the arcade original.

The wheel has a switch to change from wheel to analog controller, but even in wheel mod the game recognize it as a controller.

The wheel works fine with other games as Daytona.

Does somebody know why?

For information, the game is US and the wheel PAL but it should not change anything.
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Re: Alien front online racing wheel not recognized

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The game would have to have wheel support for the wheel to work correctly
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Re: Alien front online racing wheel not recognized

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The game have wheel support even if it's not written on the box. In the option there is a special controller mapping reserved for the wheel.
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I just tried out the wheel controls with a Saturn wheel and converter. You have to be on control preset 7. It has a pop up message about wheel controls. Press B at that point. If you press A it goes to preset 1. Maybe that's what you were doing?
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Re: Alien front online racing wheel not recognized

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Yes, it's happening exactly the same to me.
Maybe it only works with the official wheel.
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What do you mean its happening exactly the same? I'm saying it works for me.
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Re: Alien front online racing wheel not recognized

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I do as you do but when I start playing the wheel behave as a controller (I cant move front or rear as there is no analog up or down on the wheel). I think the controller preset go back to 1 when I leave the option.

Did you try playing with the wheel?
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Re: Alien front online racing wheel not recognized

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Forward and back are mapped to L and R
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Re: Alien front online racing wheel not recognized

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On my mad catz, the L/R button are still mapped to starf even in preset 7.
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