X-wing Alliance Joystick Patch

Dec 28, 2016 Like the title says. Seeing as this game has quite a few years on it's neck, how do I bypass the need for a joystick (which I don't own).? UPDATE: I realised that the game has to be played with a controller (as in an Xbox 360-controller). Luckily, I had one so I could start the game. Execute the XWINGALLIANCE202CK.EXE Patch. Execute/Double-Click the REGSETUP.EXE registry file to update the windows registry. Re-Apply the official X-Wing Alliance 2.02 Update. Execute XWINGALLIANCE.EXE to play the Game! NOTE: The Fixed EXE only defeats the CD Protection, the CDs are still required to play the game! I borrowed x-wing alliance from my cousin but the case did not come with any instructions on the keyborad controls. Games' started by joystick, Oct 2, 2004. Apr 04, 2012 First things first, whenever you install this game, make sure to install the Official X-Wing Alliance Version 2.2 Patch, which can be downloaded from here: Moddb.com After you have patched the game to version 2.2, It is a good idea to fix the fonts, because modern operating systems tend to smash all the letters together into incoherent fragments.

I've had the game running fine on basically the same setup.
But recently I got a new drive and reinstalled my OS, and now I can't install XWAU for some reason.
I'm running Pop!_OS 20.04, with Lutris 0.5.8.
I have the GOG version 2.0.2-18061.
Used dhollinger's Lutris installer.
The base game itself is installed and runs fine, but the Lutris installer fails installing the mega patch.

I'm seeing this in the output:
If I try to manually run the patch file, it fails with error message: 'The calling thread must be STA because many UI components require this.'
I don't think it's an issue with the patch file itself, I've checked the md5 hash and it's correct.

X-wing Alliance Joystick Patch Release

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The only difference I can see between now and when it worked is wine version being updated to 6.0-rc1, while I used 5.7-11 before. But trying older wine versions doesn't help.
Any idea what's wrong?

X-wing Alliance Joystick Patch

The game seems to run smoothly up to the point where it looks for a game controller! It just then redirects me to the desktop claiming it won't work right without a joystick attached. That is partially true. However I own a number of game controllers, and none seem to be recognized in Crossover games. I've done a small search but I only found a post from 2008 saying that it's hard to use game controllers in crossover games and would take a long time to integrate that (which sounds to me like talking about a product still in beta. I can't imagine that crossover games does not support a game controller!!! My controllers work in all other programs and shells (like dosbox. I am able to play xwing for dos perfectly with my joystick on dosbox). So I guess I missed a step somewhere? (I suppose that the post about not being able to use game controllers is outdated since it was more than 2 years ago). Please direct me to the right instructions to getting my joystick up and running since you claim that XWA is supported with a silver medal too, which means that the game controller issue is resolved, just I cannot find the instructions... I suppose? guess??? hope??????? (a new hope!!! episode IV) ;)
thank you