Posted by Tom61 on 25, 2000 at 4:27 PM:
In Reply to: Need advice: DpadPro/SnesKey or my hack......more. posted by Agent Davis ATF on 25, 2000 at 4:15 AM:
On your PSX pad there is at least one microchip on it, this is what is probably causing the delay, and it'll probably cause masking as well if you leave it in. Remove it and any other electronics, and it should work fine (desolder it, grind it off, etc).
The only console controller you don't need to modify is Atari 2600, everything is wired directly to the connector. The only controller that wouldn't be easy to do this to is the colleco, the joystick works just like an Atari controller(so you could use the Atari adapter), but the number buttons are in a diode matrix and is very hard to figure out(I've been trying to figure it out for some time now).
The main reason to make D-Pad/SNESKey interface cables is to keep the controllers original, so you can unplug them from the computer and plug them into the console it's for.
: 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?