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Gamepad hack
paigeoliver:
If you look long enough and hard enough in the various bargin bins and thrift stores you can often locate a joystick that requires no soldering at all to hack. Looks for ones that resemble those the NES Advantage (That nes arcade stick). I used a PC stick like that, and didn't have to solder anything at all, as everything was wired up with wires in the first place.
aj6500:
On that same page, wouldn't a joystick w/several buttons on the stick itself use wiring through the handle to connect to the board? Might simply a few things...
paigeoliver:
Yes, BUT sticks with buttons on the stick are often analog, and the cheaper ones don't even have circuit boards inside at all. I just ripped up a PC trigger stick to make an 8-way trigger stick, and it had NO PCB at all inside, just wires and POTS.
paigeoliver:
Oh, and shoulder buttons on gamepads are almost always connected with wires.
aj6500:
So did the lack of pcb make it easier to do, or not work for what you wanted?