i'm playing descent 1 with a mouse but want to control it with a joystick, when I plugged the stick in and loaded the game, it changed my control scheme to keyboard only which is a shit option for ANY First person shooter, 6DOF or not. and to pour in the salt, it won't let me change my control scheme back or to any other setting I need urgent help! >:D

Are you using DOSBox, or Rebirth? If you're not using Rebirth, I would really suggest grabbing it. You can download an installer for it here: http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/download/dxx/user/afuturepilot/download.php

I use DOS box. so far, the only fix ive found is to delete my profile and start over. I don't think it supports the joystick I use anyway. I've tried.

If you installed the game to the Program Files directory, try uninstalling it and installing it somewhere else.

Once again though…I'd REALLY recommend using Rebirth instead of DOSBox.