interfacing perfect 360 joysticks

[mattv]

I know this question has been discussed before, at length, but I can't find any refrence to it and the board search engine turns up nothing.

So.

Is there any way to interface a perfect 360 joystick to your PC?

As far as I can see they run on five volts, which isn't a good start, so i'm guessing that you need some kind of special encoder.
What about a Jpac? I'm using one of those with my (non-perfect) controls at the moment and it works great. Can I simply plug the perfect 360 into that or will it destroy something

Any input appreciated, or a link to the old discussion would be great.

Matt

[mattv]

Here we go. I knew I had seen this somewhere before

http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_controls.shtml#Joysticks

which links to
here
http://www.mameworld.net/pc2jamma/pc_arc5.html
and here
http://www.mameworld.net/pc2jamma/

Next time i need to know this, there will be a refrence to it on the messageboards