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Old Commodore joystick and Atari paddles...
Sinner:
Hi,
I was digging around in my old closet at my parent's house and I found the following:
An old Wico joystick, it's like the one below (middle one), but with a balltop and chrome shaft (top and base fire buttons)...
I also have an old set of Atari 2600 paddles...
I still have a Commodore 64 and a Commodore 128 in the closet too. I'm sure if I dig around I can find more Commie stuff, but I doubt I would ever use them...
Does anyone know if there is a use for these? Maybe in a MAME cabinet...
crsdawg:
you could integrate the paddles by using a stelladaptor.
the joysticks could be attatched via a db9 connector wired to your encocder. if mounted properly i would be nice addition.
if you wire the db9 correctly, you could also attatch modded nes and/or genesis controllers as i've done, here.
the paddles and stelladaptor can only be used with z26 as far as i know, but the joys will work as regular 8 ways on just about any emulator.
Kremmit:
If that stick you've got is a ball-top, somebody you can do this:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,20914.0.html
Or, if you don't want to, sell/trade it to me!
MajorLag:
Unfortunatly the paddles do not act as spinners (they can't be turned more then, I'm guessing, 270 degrees or so).
paigeoliver:
The paddles act as PADDLES. Lots of games use those. Super Breakout, Warlords, Avalanche, Clowns, 270 driving games, Bomb Bee, etc.