Posted by x-wing on 11, 2001 at 10:49 PM:
In Reply to: Do I really need wire to each common on a gravis gamepad USB?? posted by Luke Arntson on 11, 2001 at 9:46 PM:
: Well I got a Gravis Gamepad USB not to long ago to hack apart and wire up to my arcade cabinet. I opened it up to discover that Gravis decided it would be necessary to put diodes on every trace, including the commons, and use them as transistors. Why? I don't know. But I was wondering if anyone knows an easier way to get the common off of the traces, so I only have to have 1 common, instead of 16 commons? Thnx in advance.
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curious...
A new project that has just been added to the examples page, "R-Type Conversion" uses the Gravis USB gamepads. Perhaps contact the owner of that cab and see what they did?
-x-wing