Is it possible to bind personally written aliases to joystick buttons on an 8-button, 8-way hat stick? Or does Vendetta only support 4 buttons and 4 hat directions?

It certainly supports the Z-axis and throttle pretty well.

You can bind anything to them. But there are afaik only 4 hat directions.

Edit: And to all buttons :)

Well then that's funny, cause they don't seem to respond to the commands I gave them... in the wgaf.cfg file. Nor do the bindings show up in the file, even though buttons 1-4 and the hat directions work.

We only assume a joystick's POVhat has 4 positions.
Vendetta supports up to 4 POVhats, 32 buttons, and 8 axes per joystick as long as they are exposed in the way vendetta reads them.

I think we had a thread on this once before. I 'll need to check since there have been updates since then, but I found that I could only bind joystick buttons to commands via the options/controls screen. While I determined how the buttons are named (joy0button0, being the first button on your first stick, joy0button1 being the second, etc etc), the game didnt allow me to use the button names in the /bind command. I could bind stuff to the mouse buttons with /bind. but not tyhe stick.

I'm using a M$ Sidewinder Precision 2

Me too.

I should get a Cyborg Evo soon. Though I own an FF2 atm.