I may have crossed a line offer someone else's code. If so please let me know. This setup program will create a virtual joystick on your PC. This allows the python code to send joystick movements
This zip contains the pyvoy joy directory that is in my C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages directory. I had to make some minor changes to make it work. It is offered here in the hope it may help others work out there problems
The modified PS2X library to work with ESP8266. This was a hack and could do with a clean up. I have limited skills here so I just made it work for ESP8266