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| DarkDraco:
ive been searching online for schematics on how to do this but couldnt find any guides. i found one for parallel somewhere but my port is already in use. can anyone help me out with links to genesis to gameport or genesis to usb? thx in advance |
| steveh:
well for usb you would need a encoder chip to convert the signal which you can get from the site i linked in your other thread there is no way to just wire it to usb I do remember seeing something that will do the game port. but that was a while ago. also i see no need to open a new thread that has to do with the same thing in your other thread :) |
| Crowquill:
Here's one for Atari/C64/etc... http://www.student.uni-kl.de/~dittrich/joyadapter/index.html Genesis uses a VERY similar pinout. You might be able to adapt this. My only concern is whether you could get it to register more than the two buttons (b & C if IIRC) that are part of the Atari pinouts (i.e. 7800). It'd be easy to make a Master System adapter, but Genesis is a bit tougher. Here's some info (including a parallel adapter). http://pinouts.ru/Game/genesiscontroller_pinout.shtml Somewhere in a box I have an old Kernel Productions Joyport. It's the first console->USB adapter I ever had. It had ports for Playstation, N64, and a 9-pin Atari/Sega port. The thing that impressed me is that you could use all 3 ports at the same time to play 3-player. Unfortunately now, it was built specifically for Mac OS before OS X came out. There was never a driver for use in OS X, so it got packed away. Surprisingly there wasn't a Windows driver that I know of. Hope some of this helps. |
| DarkDraco:
looks like i might have to get the overpriced usb adapter from retrousb. ince my parallel is taken up already. i might just go along with 1 genesis adapter instead of 2 |
| DarkDraco:
came across this: gameport pinout: http://www.technick.net/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=pinconjoy_pc_game genesis pinout: http://pinouts.ru/Game/genesiscontroller_pinout.shtml if i match up the pins shouldnt it work? like pin1 on gameport is 5v and pin5 on genesis is 5v, button 1,2,3,4 etc... and if so how will i setup the up down left right? since up/down is pin 1/2 on genesis and on the game port pin 3/4 are just x/y axis. |
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