Okay, so I've been playing tons of Elite: Dangerous and have recently gotten an extreme hankering for Independence War again. The last time I played the I-War games I only had basic setups and had to tweak the deadzone in the control config to get the level of responsiveness I wanted. A recent Google search has showed people using analog inputs for lateral thrusters, but I don't know if those threads in various places were talking about I-War 1 or I-War 2. I've got axes U and V applied to my Throttle ministick, Slider0 bound to my toe brakes via CMS scripting as a single, centered axis, and the throttle wheel on the Fighterstick bound to Slider1... mostly for scanner range fun in ED. :P

So uh... yeah, any editing wizardry I can do to use all the buttons and all the axes (well, maybe not Slider0/1, though, mostly just wondering about the throttle ministick) in both I-War 1 and 2?

You could try UCR (Universal Controller Remapper).

http://evilc.com/2017/05/01/ucr/

That's, uh... literally not what I'm asking for. CH Control Manager does everything UCR does.

I'm asking if it's possible to use more than four axes (I-War games have at least X, Y, Z and Rx) and, if I can, program the extra axes.