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Escapades in X-Box Controller Hacking
Demon-Seed:
Like I said i am interested in a few too please put me near the top of the list!
WindDrake:
What this does, is it makes your Arcade Stick act just like an analog stick, without the analog. It now becomes a normal Digital U/D/L/R input. A replacement for the DPad, I suppose, or on games that require the use of the Analog stick input rather then the DPad. It's not making a fully Analog arcade stick, but it's giving you Analog Stick functionality. If you're still interested, I'll see about getting pictures and such.
dema:
--- Quote from: WindDrake on May 02, 2004, 10:56:24 pm ---What this does, is it makes your Arcade Stick act just like an analog stick, without the analog. It now becomes a normal Digital U/D/L/R input. A replacement for the DPad, I suppose, or on games that require the use of the Analog stick input rather then the DPad. It's not making a fully Analog arcade stick, but it's giving you Analog Stick functionality. If you're still interested, I'll see about getting pictures and such.
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I'd definitely be interested in pictures and a hack walkthrough for this simulated analog control hack, as would a number of others on the site, if you're up for it. I am going to be running a lot of the next-gen of games in my arcade off my Xbox and the problem I'm having is that there are only a small handful of games that are direction-pad playable. If I could hack a controller to get my Xbox to read the digital joystick for the analog stick games, I'd be in awesome shape. Any help you could provide on this would be immensely appreciated.
Thanks.
T.J.
Dave_K.:
I don't think you understand what he is saying. Hacking a happs 8-way (digital) joystick to a console pad's analog stick will not function the way you may expect. Moving the joystick in any of the 8 directions equates to pressing the analog stick full force in one of those 8 directions. Its fine for menus and stuff, but not for playing games where you have to "walk" rather than "run" for example.
Have you read the Game Consoles FAQ on this site? There is a section on analog controls, and a circuit you can build to hack the happs 49-way joystick.
dema:
--- Quote from: Dave_K. on May 03, 2004, 12:46:13 am ---I don't think you understand what he is saying. Hacking a happs 8-way (digital) joystick to a console pad's analog stick will not function the way you may expect. Moving the joystick in any of the 8 directions equates to pressing the analog stick full force in one of those 8 directions. Its fine for menus and stuff, but not for playing games where you have to "walk" rather than "run" for example.
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I understand how his solution works. Sort of an all-or-nothing joystick, which sucks for games that require precision movement, or walking. But there are other games that use the analog thumbstick and don't even need them. These are the types of games I'd also like to play. It doesn't fix all the problems with an XBox in an arcade cabinet, but it definitely opens up the functioning Xbox video game library significantly.
I did read the section in the BYOAC console section a bunch of times but I didn't see the results as being able to solve the dilemma I'm having. I wasn't sure if the analog joystick with the ultimate handle would work, but I'm sure I'd have to hack the actual Xbox controller or something even more complicated.
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