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Arcade controls to XBOX?
AX:
This is what I have been trying to get out of people. I dont understand why with that xarcade adapter we can't hack an ipac into a console. this adapter aparently does some sort of conversion from a keyboard into a controller. the problem is I am almost positive that teh xarcade adapter is nto using a standard serial pinout.
Distortion:
With the madcatz controller, can you use an 8-way joystick to control the analog controls of the controller, or is it just for the d-pad?
anthony691:
--- Quote from: Distortion on April 03, 2003, 01:03:47 pm ---With the madcatz controller, can you use an 8-way joystick to control the analog controls of the controller, or is it just for the d-pad?
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In thoery you could hack an analog joystick to the controllers analog stick. Pot hacking gets pretty nasty though. Sometimes you need to ask yourself "Is it really worth it?"
Dak-ak:
i hacked a mat catz pretty successfully... the buttons i have operating the trigger... uhm... "work" but im not really sure why, and i think it creates some weird effects.. as in, i can play the game perfectly, but im pretty sure its not doing the same thing as a real controller does (same way is probably a better way of saying that)
i just hooked up this old misc. arcade stick to the dpad... no analog control... but the little stock sticks are still there so games don't realize its not, and doa3 and thps work fine along with some other games... i don't like using analog in a lot of games where you can choose, so im happy with just dpad control (ie, i don't miss the analog control)
~Dak~
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: AX on April 03, 2003, 12:22:33 pm ---This is what I have been trying to get out of people. I dont understand why with that xarcade adapter we can't hack an ipac into a console. this adapter aparently does some sort of conversion from a keyboard into a controller. the problem is I am almost positive that teh xarcade adapter is nto using a standard serial pinout.
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No this is not true at all the xarcade has several circuit board that you can plug in and swap out. They call them "adaptors" for marketing reasons.
And to answer your question in the nicest way possible. A ipac is a keyboard. A joystick on a modern console is more or less a usb compliant gaming device (read: with proper drivers you can see it in the windows joystick control panel) They operate differently at different rates. So a better question would be why would you want to do this?