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Prob stupid ? OptiPAC and Atari paddles
telengard:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 29, 2003, 09:55:05 pm ---This comes up now and then and never fails to boggle my mind. It's not like Atari 2600 joysticks were particularly good. Why not use nice joysticks that work well?
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Hehe, I do use nice joysticks. On my XBox & mame cab. When an old geezer like me wants to play Atari 2600 games I don't want to use some new fancy shmancy joystick. :)
paigeoliver:
Oh. Just to clarify. It HAS to be a gameport joystick. Not a USB (never seen a USB that used POTS anyway).
The sticks you are looking for to hack generally have two little adjustment thingies on base next to the stick. With any luck you can find one with a Tron style handle, which will allow you to save the handle for a future project (I got one like that, $2.10 at the thrift store).
telengard:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on May 30, 2003, 12:14:35 am ---Oh. Just to clarify. It HAS to be a gameport joystick. Not a USB (never seen a USB that used POTS anyway).
The sticks you are looking for to hack generally have two little adjustment thingies on base next to the stick. With any luck you can find one with a Tron style handle, which will allow you to save the handle for a future project (I got one like that, $2.10 at the thrift store).
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But can this be connected to a JPAC?
paigeoliver:
No. The JPAC has no connections for analog controls.
This hooks them up to your gameport. Your computer DOES have a gameport, right? The game port is usually totally unused on most MAME boxes, so it is as good a place to interface as anyplace else.
After you plug it up, then just tell your computer you have a "2 Axis, 2 button joystick".
BTW, the above works almost exactly the same for Star Wars yokes, and STUN Runner yokes (Replace guts of Yoke with guts from cheapo analog stick).
paigeoliver:
I just realized something.
I think you keep typing J-pac, when you MEAN OPTI-PAC. It wouldn't make any sense to have both an I-Pac and a J-Pac at the same time, since the J-Pac is just an I-Pac with a video input and a JAMMA edge connector on it.