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Title: Help needed: Building a PSX Spinner
Post by: DumpsterKeeper on May 04, 2003, 01:01:48 pm

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  ::)

Title: Re:Help needed: Building a PSX Spinner
Post by: Snarbald on May 04, 2003, 01:07:03 pm

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.

Title: Re:Help needed: Building a PSX Spinner
Post by: MattMaan on May 04, 2003, 03:41:28 pm

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....

Title: Re:Help needed: Building a PSX Spinner
Post by: Snarbald on May 05, 2003, 02:17:47 am

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.

Title: Re:Help needed: Building a PSX Spinner
Post by: anthony691 on May 05, 2003, 07:32:21 am

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.

Title: Re:Help needed: Building a PSX Spinner
Post by: armad1ll0 on May 05, 2003, 10:18:41 pm

See if the game recognises the paddle built by namco.

Title: Re:Help needed: Building a PSX Spinner
Post by: DumpsterKeeper on May 05, 2003, 10:58:31 pm

Do any of the game system paddles turn 360 degrees?  IIRC my brother's NES Arkanoid paddle didn't.