Thanks for the tip Al3xand3r... I grabed one of these for my laptop in the hope that K-academy comes along soon.

Hi there,

I play SFA on Linux using wine and a Thrustmaster TFlight-X and also had the joystick calibration problem of skipping the lower right corner. After meddeling a bit around, manually mapping the joystick in the options.cfg did it for me.
This is my entry, no clue what the first 0 does, but following is up/left 0/0 bottom/right 65534/65534 and the middle (half values)

joystick = 0 0 0 65534 65534 32767 32767

you could easily check if these values work for you by setting all calibration points into the lower right corner and checking the max axis value for your joystick in the updated options.cfg.

Maybe this is of some help!

Like I said in my Update, when I made sure the entire folder was deleted after the uninstall, the reinstall ended up actually working. Will keep your suggestion in mind though. Now it is just figuring out what keyboard commands I want to map to my controls in CH Control Manager, I have not gotten around to making a custom map yet. Between the Fighterstick and my Pro Throttle, I have a lot of options to work with. I can even map my throttle to use the keyboard number row in postitional mode instead mapping it to an axis. ;)

the calibration setting is registering severel button presses, when there's just one.

try the calibration several times, make sure you press the button as short as possible and it will eventually work.

I remember that same spinning ship issue when I played that game when I played it in Win 98. It took a lot of trial and error then to learn better than to even think about going for the recalibrate button. Crazy I had to learn that lesson again the hard way. It never did work. Want a great 90's joystick? I'd highly recommend a Microsoft Forcefeedback 2 mine has served me well for going on 20 years. The original key remapping software doesn't work in win 7 64 and no longer supported but still works awesome and is fully functional.

You can bypass reinstallation by replacing the "joystick =" line with the following:

joystick = 0 0 0 65535 65535 33028 33028

in the options.cfg file in the game's directory.