Re: Almost Univerisal interface + some psx questions


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Posted by flip on 2, 2000 at 3:12 AM:

In Reply to: Re: Almost Univerisal interface + some psx questions posted by Andy Desak on 2, 2000 at 2:12 AM:

: : I'm planing (i'll think about building it if i can get it to work in theory) on a sorta univerisal interface...
: : Basically here's what i'm thinking about
: : My custom built controls have a big fat plug on the end of them (more on this later) and i can either plug that into a keyboard encoder, directly into a dongle on a keyboard/keyboard hack/adapter to (almost) any console (via a pad hack)...
: : i'm going with 10 buttons per controller here (4 dir/8 buttons/start/select..psx)
: : which is 14 individual signals and as far as i can see it i'm going to have to need 2 wires per signal (so it would work with ANY keyb hack,etc...)
: : which is just 3 more wires then a db25 has (would of been perfect)
: : i was looking at scsi 1 db50 connectors, but i don't know of a place that sells solder connectors for these (in Australia)...
: : once i have it all worked out i'll make a nice big write up about it...

: :
: : i was looking into making a couple of psx adapters (for friends and myself) and is there a cheaper way of getting/making connectors then hacking extension cords/multitaps..

: :
: : remove the nospam. from my email address to mail me..

: If the DB25 is not enough for you then you can get a Centronics switchbox. This will switch 35 lines at once. This company sell a 4 position one for $10....dont know what it would cost to ship to you though.

: Http://www.newark.com

: But if you think about it....how many PC games or MAME games will need 8 buttons per joystick....none that I can think of. So if you just hook up 6 for each joystick for PC games that will be 4 less buttons you need to switch and the DB25 will work.

: If you need any more help just let me know!

: -Andy Desak
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nice advice but not quite the solution i'm looking for...here's how the system will work

[1]--2-- [3]
1.) the panel (with two wires per button / direction/etc

2.) (stuck into 1) the fat cable that contains all the wires (28) and has a whatever connecter on the end

3.) the adapter where the fat cables go into (2 panels, i want them to be seperatable for louge room play with consoles).. this would have a hacked joypad/keyboard/encoder in it

this way i'd only have to make a new adapter(3) each time i want to connect it to something new
i want to use something like db25 cause of the ease of (un)plugging it in/out

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