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Title: Anyone know if the Hanaho Hot Rod JOystick will work with a PS2 to USB adapter?
Post by: Gavica on July 23, 2009, 01:17:18 am

Will this joystick

(http://retroblast.arcadecontrols.com/photos/controllers/hotrod.jpg)

http://retroblast.arcadecontrols.com/reviews/controller2.html

work with these?

(http://www.bestcableforless.com/prodimages/USB-PS2YB_LR.jpg)

Title: Re: Anyone know if the Hanaho Hot Rod JOystick will work with a PS2 to USB adapter?
Post by: aardvark on July 23, 2009, 04:43:19 am

i have one and as far as i am aware, no, it won't work. (hanaho, the makers, have never found an adapter that worked properly)
i've been looking for a way to convert my hotrod to usb for ages so recently i bought a ipac2 encoder to replace the one in the hotrod. not put it in yet but it is usb compatible.

Title: Re: Anyone know if the Hanaho Hot Rod JOystick will work with a PS2 to USB adapter?
Post by: Gavica on July 23, 2009, 10:39:29 am

im just afraid that in a few more years no MOBOS will come with ps2

Title: Re: Anyone know if the Hanaho Hot Rod JOystick will work with a PS2 to USB adapter?
Post by: Ginsu Victim on July 23, 2009, 10:42:45 am

Well, if that happens, it's not too expensive to just replace the guts with an Ipac.

Title: Re: Anyone know if the Hanaho Hot Rod JOystick will work with a PS2 to USB adapter?
Post by: u_rebelscum on July 23, 2009, 01:55:19 pm

There are two types of PS/2 to USB adapters, passive and active.  Passive is what most adapters are, just a physical rewire dongle, and rely on the encoder board to be know when to send USB signals instead of PS/2.  Active take the PS/2 signal, translate it to USB so can be used on old encoders that can't send USB signals, are more expensive, and generally suck for gaming due to designed just for typing documents (latency, low max simutanious key press, unable to hold down keys for long, ect).

Assuming the hotrod encoder is the same as it was originally, and not able to send USB, then the passive adapters won't work, and the active ones suck anyway.

So unless they (or you) switched the board to something newer, no, it won't work.