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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: crc on June 26, 2003, 06:13:14 am
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I would like to know if anyone has had any experience connecting the Playstation trackball (Nyko) with a PC for use with MAME.
I understand there are USB PS -> PC adaptors that should allow Playstation controllers to be used on the PC. Has anyone sucessfully used this combination, ie., the Playstation trackball and USB adaptor connected to a PC, and running as expected in MAME (or any other Windows applications for that matter).
If it's not possible for this set-up to work, has anyone ever tried to hack the Playstation trackball to allow it to work directly with the PC? Links to sites that might have a rough guide to doing this would be greatly appreciated; I've searched a few times myself, but turned up with nothing.
Thanks in advance for any useful tips or pointers.
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I don't know about the electronics... I imagine it could be made to work.
But have you given it a good roll? Doesn't it IIRC roll like crap? So much so that almost any regular PC trackball (even the 2 dollar iball ones) would make for a better interface for MAME games?
Just my .02 cents... of course if you already have one in hand it couldn't hurt to try to get it to work (and I could be wrong about the quality of the roll/play)
*shrug*
rampy