In true proon style we have drifted from flogging joysticks to tramping on rudder pedals. There is a new thread on crosswind landing technique elsewhere here.
As much as I am a true believer, I have yet to find a simulator that properly replicates the way an aircraft reacts to inputs during a maximum crosswind component landing. Perhaps the latest sims do, but even the good level D devices from earlier days do not. I never bother to give trainees more than 20 knots crosswind because it is easy enough for the instructor to observe correct technique at that value, regardless of what the sim thinks.