Steel Battalion Cockpit

The Steel Battalion Cockpit is a unique and elaborate controller designed for the original Xbox game Steel Battalion. Released on November 20, 2002, this controller features 44 input points, including buttons, joysticks, a throttle handle, a radio channel dial, five switches, an eject button, and three foot pedals.

Steam Input support

No

Linux Kernel Support

No

Emulator usecase

XEMU

Arduino Mod: Use with Modern Hardware

Efforts by user SantiagoSaldana of hackaday.io have made it possible to use the Steel Battalion Cockpit on PCs via a Teensy 3.6 / 4.1 Arduino Adapter. This adapter translates the controller's input to emulated xinput. You can read more about the project here:

Hackady.io Project: Steel Battalion Adapter

Github Arduino: Steel Battalion Controller Library

If you have this rare controller and want to try to get it running by the above methods on Linux and RetroDECK, please contact the RetroDECK team on Discord to inform them of your efforts. They will follow your progress with great interest.