Posted by Zapper on 31, 2000 at 2:06 PM:
In Reply to: Madcats Dreamcast Controller posted by Rob Caskey on 31, 2000 at 9:14 AM:
I've been working on a VOOT controller myself, the brains are from a Saturn Twin Stick and I'm using a Total Control 3 converter. I've been playing the DC version of VOOT and I think there's a bug in the whole setup, somehow I keep hitting pause while playing the game. I think it's from hitting too many buttons at the same time, but the game is playable if you're careful. Anyway here's some advice, if you buy some Twin Sticks replace the microswitches with the same Cherry lever switches found in Happ Super 8 joysticks (very smooth and the clicking is half as loud). If anyone want's some pics of the Saturn Twin Stick circuit board let me know and I'll post them.
: The easiest way to hook up your dreamcast controller to real arcade controls I have found is using hte Madcats Fighting Pad (it may be the Madcats Fighting pad II or something like that I dont remember). Its casing is semi-transparent plastic in a variety of colors with rubber grips. This is a great pad, even if you arent hacking for arcade control purposes. It has all the normal dreamcast buttons in the normal places but it also has 4 additional buttons! the top 2 simulate the analog buttons, making it super easy to hack! This gives you the 6-button genesis pad layout. The bottom two are really the same, and pressed by one piece of plastic, so its only one "input". It lets you program macros for any of the other buttons! Concievably you could also use this to remap your controls on the fly. Im still not sure how it works though, im about to go look for online instructions, i lost the real ones. $24.99 at walmart. Also, you can just follow the traces and they lead to this rectangular thing, and you can just solder on to there. If you follow the traces right you wont blow your F1 fuse, but if you do open up the dreamcast and look at the board right in front of the controller ports for a microfuse labeled F1 (it looks kinda like a resistor). Unsoldier it,put in two wires where it used to be, then get the fuse clips from radio shack & hook the wires to that, pop in a one amp fuse and you are set :)
: (almost everyone blows their f1 fuse, its no big deal once you calm down & fix it)
: After this im gonna do a custom cp for VOOT i think.
: BTW, I owned a PS2 for a while until it went for $500 on ebay. Yes i know about the bleempod thingy or whatever its called and the various PS adapaters.