nintendo controller to ipac?

[boesiii]

I am building a control panel that incorporates the use of rj-45 plugs.  I am going to have two plugs outside (and out of sight) the cabinet.  I want to use the two plugs for two nintendo controllers or two six button sega controllers.

Can these controllers be hooked up to an ipac?

ALso, if I can hook these up to an ipac, how would I wire up so that player 1 up on the cp would also equal player 1 up on the nintendo?  

hope this isn't  confusing?

[mattv]

The ipac really wasn't designed for this kind of thing at all.

What it is looking to get is a series of simple on/off signals. nintendo and sega controllers have a bunch of electronics to encode the on/off infomation into a form that makes sense to your sega / nintendo.

So no, you can't just lop the end off the controller cable and screw the wires into your ipac.

you kight be able to do this by gutting all the electronics from the nintendo / sega controlllers and turing all the contacts into simple on/off switches which bypass the internal electronics all togehter. This would mean that your ipac could understand the input but the controller would then be useless for anything but connection to an ipac.

To be honest the ipac is the wrong solution for htis problem. there are a huge number of usb addaptors that allow you to plug all kinds of crazy controllers into a USB port on your PC.

this place has some - buy one of those
http://www.blackchopper.com/store.php

disclaimer: I have never bought anything from the guys above and so I can't recomend them. don't come crying to me if they rip you off.

[dvdapex]

http://dawgslair.com/joypad/joypad%20hack.html

The above URL shows you how to do it with the Geni 3 button pad and the NES pad.  I did the Geni hack and it was really easy.

[independentthread]

Personally, If you're that worried about it...I think a much simpler solution would be to go buy one of those Madcatz remakes of the NES controller for PS2 and use a USB adapter...unless for some odd reason you were planning on using the NES controller on an actual PCB and not just a rom...because if you were planning on using an NES controller on a PCB, doesn't that defeat the purpose of an "arcade version"