Xbox interface

[bigmiekoz]

I am building some cabinets powered by Xbox.  I am looking for an interface board that I can use to connect the Xbox console with with the arcade controls.  I found one through X-Arcade.  Are there any other options.

Thanks

[elvis]

Make your own via a gamepad hack.  I can find XBox controllers locally for around ~AU$11 (~US$8.40).  At that price, ripping them to pieces to make 2 joystick interfaces for a cabinet is pretty cost effective.

[Minwah]

http://www.ultimarc.com/xba.html

[Goz]

If it is just the controls you are looking to do, I'd suggest the X-Arcade route. The setup will let you do both Analog and Digital via a button press which toggles between modes. The Ultimarc route while seemingly cooler will cost you alot more to do the same thing considering all the pieces you'd need to purchase and it doesn't help that Ultimarc perpetually seems to be out of some of the pieces.

If you need to also interface it with a 15Khz monitor, Ultimarcs solutions seems really cool, but again they are out of stock on the parts.

-Goz

[Minwah]

If you need to also interface it with a 15Khz monitor, Ultimarcs solutions seems really cool, but again they are out of stock on the parts.

As they are new products (& probably quite popular) I expect it will take a while for things to become as available as the other products we are used to (IPAC etc..).

[tetsujin]

The controller ports on the X-Box are basically just USB with a couple extra lines.  Assuming you're running some kind of OS on your X-Box in order to run an emulator, it seems likely that you'd be able to connect whatever USB gamepad device you like, with the proper connector adaptor.  So the GP-Wiz would do the job, I think.

[Minwah]

The controller ports on the X-Box are basically just USB with a couple extra lines.  Assuming you're running some kind of OS on your X-Box in order to run an emulator, it seems likely that you'd be able to connect whatever USB gamepad device you like, with the proper connector adaptor.  So the GP-Wiz would do the job, I think.

But would this work for normal Xbox games?  I didn't think so...

Also, I thought there needs to be drivers for the device, for whatever OS is running on the Xbox (for emulators etc).  I doubt there are many of these available except for generic mice / keyboards etc.

I could be wrong tho, I have only recently got into Xbox modding so I know very little...

[tetsujin]

The controller ports on the X-Box are basically just USB with a couple extra lines.  Assuming you're running some kind of OS on your X-Box in order to run an emulator, it seems likely that you'd be able to connect whatever USB gamepad device you like, with the proper connector adaptor.  So the GP-Wiz would do the job, I think.

But would this work for normal Xbox games?  I didn't think so...

Almost certainly not.  I assumed the X-Box was there as a cheap PC for running emulators.

X-Box controllers are sort of HID devices, but they have a fixed report format which they don't enumerate in a descriptor table - so any HID device not providing a device type recognized by the game, or which has a report format different from an X-Box control pad will probably just not be recognized by the game.

[Minwah]

Almost certainly not.  I assumed the X-Box was there as a cheap PC for running emulators.

Ah OK, no problem...I'm not sure what the original posters' intention is, I was just thinking about xbox arcade ports etc...

[SQrL]

I would suggest the X-Arcade route as well... Specially if you want to interface you CP with other consoles in the future (dreamcast, game cube, etc...).  Its just a quick serial cable change (which you could hook to a serial switch type box).

I have one and love it.

[adonis_minus_20]

What about the Smartjoy Frag?

http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=83&products_id=5438&

I've read other threads here where people talk about the idea of using it with an IPAC, but it doesn't look like anyone has confirmed that it will work (also with a Trackball for the mouse).

Jim