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Kaytrim:

--- Quote from: MonMotha on April 15, 2007, 10:03:14 pm ---I have an encoder board design laying around (not manufactured yet) that supports a playstation in either analog or digital mode, including analog inputs (you can hook either pots or 0-5V analog inputs up).  No way I can beat the price on picking up a couple cheap digital pads at Gamestop and prying the top off, but I can make the analog inputs work (or I can map an 8-way to the analog stick), and it'll certainly look much cleaner.  If you cared, I could make the inputs arbitrarily mappable, too.  I should be able to get it well below $70, especially if I can get more than one person interested.

If you don't need the analog inputs, it's certainly cheaper (though very, very ugly) to just solder some wires down to a cheap-o digital controller.

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I was looking into doing this for the custom controller builders for both X-Box and Playstation.  I was asking over at another forum and the sweet spot seems to be in the $20-$30 range for these.  About the same price as keyboard encoders.  There does seem to be a market for them.    I know that I would look into purchasing them for any customs that I would build.  I don't like the idea of hacking a game pad.

Kaytrim

NiteWalker:

--- Quote from: Kaytrim on April 18, 2007, 12:40:21 pm ---I was looking into doing this for the custom controller builders for both X-Box and Playstation.  I was asking over at another forum and the sweet spot seems to be in the $20-$30 range for these.  About the same price as keyboard encoders.  There does seem to be a market for them.    I know that I would look into purchasing them for any customs that I would build.  I don't like the idea of hacking a game pad.

Kaytrim

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If there were xbox and PS2 encoders similar to the ipac and keywiz I'd be their best customer...

Kaytrim:

--- Quote from: NiteWalker on April 18, 2007, 09:44:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: Kaytrim on April 18, 2007, 12:40:21 pm ---I was looking into doing this for the custom controller builders for both X-Box and Playstation.  I was asking over at another forum and the sweet spot seems to be in the $20-$30 range for these.  About the same price as keyboard encoders.  There does seem to be a market for them.    I know that I would look into purchasing them for any customs that I would build.  I don't like the idea of hacking a game pad.

Kaytrim

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If there were xbox and PS2 encoders similar to the ipac and keywiz I'd be their best customer...

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You do make a few of the custom control panels don't you NiteWalker. :cheers:

MonMotha:
Alright, sounds like there's some real interest in this.  I'll try to get a prototype out for fabrication of the PCB early next week.

I'll look into XBox (electically a fairly known problem, software wise I have no information) and GameCube (I investigated this a while back - should be doable) support, as well.

NiteWalker:
Some PS2 encoders would be great. Less so for xbox and GC.

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