Need advice: DpadPro/SnesKey or my hack......more.


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Posted by Agent Davis ATF on 25, 2000 at 4:15 AM:

Well, I thought I'd sit down and do a little experimenting. I have an old psx pad that I'd opened up a while back so I thought I'd do a little hacking. What I wanted to do is see if I could solder wires straight from the dpad and wire them to my IPAC. I just wanted to test out one button to see if it'd work. Obviously I can't wire straight to the top of the pcb so I flipped the board over and traced to where the buttons led and found where they were soldered. I soldered a wire to that spot and then connected it to my ipac. I then found a place where a ground was and wired that to the ground on my ipac as well. I plugged it in and loaded Notepad. I pressed right (the button I soldered) and it worked! Of course, I knew it would if I did it right but I am pretty excited about it. The only problem was that there was a very slight delay but one that might matter in games considering the reflexes that are needed. I used 22 gauge, do you think that a smaller wire would be better? Maybe that's what is causing the delay. It didn't seem hard to do this and I know it wouldn't take me long to do an entire pad. I want to be able to wire up gamepads for all of the systems I have. I don't mind hacking the gamepads either. Do you think that this method is better than the SNESkey/Dpadpro methods of building different wires for different gamepads? What I'm going to do is wire two db25's to my ipac so that I'll be able to use any two combinations of gamepads I want. I'll even be able to do this: One person using the arcade control panel while another uses a gamepad! To some of you this may sound dumb but for some games I would rather prefer using gamepads, like sports games. So, let me know what you all think. SNESkey/Dpadpro or solder hacks?


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