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Gamepad -> USB converters ... do they work?
bigmoe:
--- Quote from: tom61 on January 18, 2004, 04:13:00 pm ---It shows up as a USB gamepad. It decodes the resistor values then sends the USB HID command that means the same. Which is why it has a switch for gamepad/joystick/wheel.
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I received this response from one of the sellers:
"It won't support that b/c MS SIDEWINDER is a digital controller."
It made sense to me that it won't work once I remembered that the pad needs a special driver, so there is something more going on than simple resistor decoding.
Dripht:
I've seen a few of these questions around the internet and I'm starting to wonder why you'd want to "convert" a gameport sidewinder to a usb one in the first place?
Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Dripht on June 23, 2004, 07:49:05 pm ---I've seen a few of these questions around the internet and I'm starting to wonder why you'd want to "convert" a gameport sidewinder to a usb one in the first place?
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Just off the top of my head:
1) Gameport sidewinder is probably a fairly easy (or well-documented) hack with lots of buttons
2) Many (most?) new motherboards no longer have a gameport.
FWIW.
Grasshopper:
I think it would be better to hack a Playstation pad and use a Playstation to USB converter with that.
Alternatively, you could hack an Xbox pad. They are based on a slightly modified USB interface. I learned recently that all you need to do to use an Xbox pad with a PC is to make/buy an adaptor cable and download a driver from the internet.
Mr. Dude:
They make a super joy box for PS2 and XBOX pads and I was thinking of trying it. I'd love to be able to play games like Halo and Unreal Tournament with an Xbox pad.