Turbo Grafx / Sega Genesis / SMS / PSOne /N64 adaptors to usb Without soddering

[mrclean]

#1:: I was looking around and the best thing I came up with so far was "retrousb.com" offers a soddering kit to convert the original controllers to make them usb, for 17 bucks.. rather than do that I was wondering if any one knows In existance if any type of an adaptor exists for both Turbo Grafx as well as Sega Genesis, & Sega Master System, so I won't need to ruin the original controllers. (Already got the NES to USB adapter, and its fantastic!, gonna order the SNES ones for sure)

#2::Currently I own 1 N64 Adaptoid And love it but want a 2nd one..ZtNet.com at one point made the N64 adaptoid and claimed they were making a short run of another batch of them.. aparently I missed the boat and would like to obtain another one of those. So my question is will they be reproduced ? Would rather not overpay on ebay.. I see a message on wishtech's site stating another production run., but i think that was from a year ago.. are they doing it again? can any one confirm this ?

3#:: In the past I went with this blue thing that was both supposidly for psone and n64 big piece of crap it turned out to be, so whats the best PSOne to usb which works with the analog sticks etc.

My purpose is not to destroy any original controllers by soddering them etc..

[mrserv0n]

best one in my opionion for psx is called PSX to USB and its made by radioshack.

[mrclean]

before heading to my local radio shack id like to see a pic of the device if you can post a pic thanks! 11 bucks not too shabby

[DarkBubble]

I'd snap a pic of mine, but they've since changed to different model or at least something that's cosmetically different.  I'm pretty sure that it's a generic adapter out of Hong Kong, as I've used drivers from other USB boxes that worked just fine with it.

I'm not sure if they've fixed the error in the newer boxes, but the original drivers didn't support rumble.  You have to dig up some that do.  If you don't want rumble, Windows XP recognizes it as a USB gamepad and you can set it up and calibrate it just as any other controller.

For Genesis games, I don't really care for using a PS pad.  I'm thinking of either hooking up the old Sidewinder pad or hacking an Xbox controller to USB.

[Crowquill]

There are two versions of the RadioShack adapter. The original is about a 3"x3" black and blue plastic box with a controller port and a USB lead. I actually have 3 of these. 2 are in my MAME cab connected to PS1 dual shocks with Spiffyshoes' solderless hack. The other even worked on my Mac. One of them did give out, but the other two are going strong. I haven't tried the new one.

Trying to find a TG-16/PCE adapter is probably going to be pretty difficult. As close as they were, I'd probably just stick to an NES controller for those. Another difficulty might be that IIRC japanese controllers and Duo ports use different pinouts.

[mrclean]

  went with the recommended radio shack one for PSone way better results, however can't use the analog with the d-pad at the same time.. but it certainly was worth the 11 bucks probably going to invest in another one... However...still seeking N64 adaptoid, Turbo Grafix, SMS, And Sega Genesis.. i don't want knock offs / side winders etc.. I want to use the actual joys

[steveh]

i can vouch for retrousb's genesis kits and adapters.

they work great.

i hacked 2 genesis controllers, and i also have 2 adapters.  well worth their price