The Steel Battalion controll er won’t connect to the PC as-is.
Step 0: Get an adaptor for the controller If you are interested in the technical details, I also wrote an article on how I made the driver: Writing a driver for the Steel Battalion controller.
If you want to use your old Steel Battalion controller on your PC, you are in luck! I wrote a driver for it to operate a backhoe digger in my game BH Trials, and this driver allows it to work with many other games, too.