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$9 'Super Easy' USB Controller hack for MAME
paulliadis:
Thanks HarumaN. That clears things up for me. I'm a Nintendo guy since the NES days (trying to regain a little street cred here) so I'm really not familiar with the PS2. That makes sense though.
I'll probably wind up buying the controller originally listed in this thread then and hack it.
HaRuMaN:
--- Quote from: paulliadis on August 27, 2010, 02:12:19 pm ---Thanks HarumaN. That clears things up for me. I'm a Nintendo guy since the NES days (trying to regain a little street cred here) so I'm really not familiar with the PS2. That makes sense though.
I'll probably wind up buying the controller originally listed in this thread then and hack it.
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That would work. And, in all fairness, the controller in the beginning of this thread looks a lot like a PS2 controller.
nordemoniac:
--- Quote from: sinkhead on June 30, 2009, 08:18:53 am ---It arrived and I took it apart. I took some photos for you. I don't know what to do now because I don't have any controls, but I do have a multimeter if anyone wants me to test anything.
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I bought a couple of these on DealExtreme for $5,80. Is it just me, or is it something strange with UP and RIGHT on this board?
For me it seemed like you would need a common wire for up and right, and you could not use ground. If you did, it went DOWN or LEFT instead...(?).
For that I needed to solder to one of the buttons, as it didn't have any solder spots. I used a 30W solder iron, and it actually broke the buttons on the PCB. :angry:
I did an easy hack - I just scraped off some of the plastic PCB, so that I came down to the metal, added some flux, and soldered without problems.
I will attach a couple of pictures later, as the finished result (after my crappy soldering) worked perfectly!
nordemoniac:
My USB-gamepad hack (TESUN from DX)
boardjunkie:
I've been doing this since gamepads were gameport only (not USB). Easy enough if you know what yer doin'. The USB mouse board to arcade trackball is a bit more involved, but still no big whoop if you know what to do.