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Help needed: Building a PSX Spinner
DumpsterKeeper:
I've built a couple of Beatmania IIDX controllers (The game is for the Playstation, Playstation II, and various PC simulators) but I need to build the turntable. For those not familiar with the game, the turntable is basically just a spinner with a giantic disc attached to the top of it (instead of a little knob).
I've tried some of the Mouse hack links on the site, but they don't work for whatever reason. Does anyone have any suggestions/links on building a spinner that would be compatible with a Playstation? I bought a few PSX Trackballs, snipped one of the axises off, wired it up to my controller but it doesn't work.
Thanks for any help, it's greatly appreciated so I can stop using a pushbutton for my turntable.
Edit - Added a picture of the keys on my "compact model" (I also built a gigantic 1'X2' one that doesn't exactly fit too comfortably on my desktop ::)
Snarbald:
I think you would need to hack it into a controller that's can already control the game. It would be way easier to build it for a pc port.
MattMaan:
Didn't the playstation have a mouse you could buy? Don't know where you'd find one of those... or whether it'd be nice to hack or not....
Snarbald:
Playstation games don't just have mouse drivers in them though. There's only about three games that I can think of right now that supported the mouse.
anthony691:
Ahh... Dremcast was wonderful about controller compatibility :D I love my Dreamcast. They even made a joystick/trackball controller, I couldn't stand it though.