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Title: DC controller hacking analog games?
Post by: Negativecreep0 on February 14, 2004, 02:16:27 pm

Hey guys when i see all these faqs on hacking dc controller, is it just using the normal up down left right cross button? or is the anologue hadnled too? I mean some of the games i have, use only analog movement stick thing and not the d pad movement. Any help?

Title: Re:DC controller hacking analog games?
Post by: Minwah on February 14, 2004, 02:45:04 pm

Normally pad hacking applies to digital buttons only.  The Games Consoles section (click on the left) shows how to hack some analog controls (hall effect) but only to digital inputs (ie in-game will be read as all or nothing, not analog).  I haven't yet seen anyone hack say an arcade analog stick to the analog stick on a gamepad :(

Title: Re:DC controller hacking analog games?
Post by: jerryjanis on February 14, 2004, 04:32:28 pm

The pots ( or hall effect?) in the DC controller behave like a 10k pot.  Surely with some hardcore knowhow and some elbow grease, there would be SOME way to hack an arcade control to use it, but I haven't heard of it around here.

Title: Re:DC controller hacking analog games?
Post by: Dave_K. on February 14, 2004, 08:53:54 pm

The DC doesn't have many games which require ONLY the analog stick.  But the PS2 has some which I'd love to play.

If you can get ahold of a happ 49-way arcade stick, you could try building the circuit linked in the FAQ.  I wired it up on a bread board, but couldn't get it to work correctly (I hacked to a 3rd party PS2 pad that didn't use +5v...it used 3.3v and I think that was a problem for the 49-way).  Anyway, you are welcome to give it a shot on a DC analog stick.

http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_consoles.shtml#arcadeanalog (http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_consoles.shtml#arcadeanalog)