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Found a great hackable gamepad for cheap!
unhuman:
Regarding common ground... There are several common grounds, but you can trace wires so you'll only need 3 common grounds - ie some of the buttons are grounded together, the joystick/pad is grounded together, etc. I'm not saying they're all together, as I haven't quite completed mine yet, but it looks like I can get done with 3 wires for ground off the pad.
armad1ll0:
document document document!!! I did it once and I never have to figure it out the grounds again.
In Win98 I have two used in my ArcadePC and they don't swap around.
paigeoliver:
Maybe it varies with different motherboards and gamepads, but both of my computers randomly swap around identical USB gamepads on every reboot (only identical ones, different models maintain position).
IIOIOOIOO:
Paige. Try plugging them in off of different USB headers, or into different USB ports. I've seen this problem manifest itself in people using a crummy USB hub.
unhuman:
I finally tried the controllers... 3 of them work together. The 4th is on my workbench, but I gotta assume if 3 work, so would 4.
Good luck!
-Howie