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shawndubya:
Hi,

My wife likes to play old-school games like pacman and galaga on my XBox, but really hates the controller and thus doesn't play much. I'm looking for a simple hand-held controller with 1 or 2 buttons which she can use. I don't mind doing a little construction work, but it seems like getting something that actually fits in your hand would be pretty difficult.  And it seems pretty overkill to build a set of arcade controls for one button (doesn't it?). Does anyone have or know of such a thing? Thanks ...

shawn.

abrannan:
So you're looking for something like an old-school 8-bit nintendo controller that would connect to the X-box?  Shouldn't be too hard to hack that up.  

slycrel:

  Or even better, get an old wico atari joystick and see if you can hack an xbox controller to use it's inputs and buttons.

shawndubya:
Thanks for the replies! Ok, so the general idea is that I should start with an old joystick for whatever system (probably Atari-like) and hook it up with an old Xbox controller. With the information on this site it looks like I should be able to figure it out mostly. Any suggestion on specific joysticks to look at? Are any easier to hack than others?

Dave_K.:
Why not just buy one of these....

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=92430&dept=2636&product_id=2233975&path=0%3A2636%3A92430

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