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Voodooray:

Hi everyone.
I have built a spinner using a PS/2 mouse and i was wondering if i could convert it to USB?
I know you can get little plugs that will change one to the other but i have some solderable USB plugs and i wondered if i could just re-wire it.
Also if i did, would it still work in mame?

Thanks in advance.

Voodoo Ray
88 Acid Revival, Safe!

spystyle:

It seems more sensible to use the adapter plug than to permanently convert it  ???

But, if you are determined to, I bet you could google up the "pin outs" and come up with something

Thenasty:


--- Quote from: Voodooray on March 03, 2005, 03:16:17 pm ---Also if i did, would it still work in mame?

Thanks in advance.

Voodoo Ray
88 Acid Revival, Safe!

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keep it in mind for the future that if your CONTROLS work in WINDOWS, it will work with MAME.

Chris:


--- Quote from: Voodooray on March 03, 2005, 03:16:17 pm ---Hi everyone.
I have built a spinner using a PS/2 mouse and i was wondering if i could convert it to USB?
I know you can get little plugs that will change one to the other but i have some solderable USB plugs and i wondered if i could just re-wire it.

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The mouse has to be designed to work with one of those adapters.  You can't just plug any old mouse into one. The mouse has to detect it's plugged into USB instead of PS/2 and adjust its output accordingly.

--Chris

cholin:

I found a small mouse from a 1996 computer and I threw a PS2-USB plug on it and it actually worked.

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