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NickG:
hi severdhed, is the short wiring true of the BYO kit?  I tore my board out of an x-arcade dual, so I am familiar with the shortness of the wiring, but I had always assumed that the BYO kit would come with more manageable lengths.

ViciousXUSMC:
I have heard the wiring is short on the byo kit in more than one place.  Connecting/Extending wires is one of the easiest things to do though.  I would just use a terminal block.

I hear conflicting opinions on the quality of the product & adapters in more than one place though.

I guess I will keep an eye and ear out and cross that bridge when the time comes.

There is another product I just found that does PC & PS3 native via usb and many people have tied it into other controllers.

Also I suppose any 360 controller mod would work for PC too since 360 controllers are plug & play in Windows, just some programs do not support gamepad input (like NullDC) I found that out the hard way this morning when I tried to use my 360 controller on NullDC to play MVC2. 

I fixed it fast though with GlovePie I am familiar with it since I use glovepie to use my wiimote on my PC

Simple code like:


--- Code: ---Key.Left=Joystick1.x<-.8
Key.Right=Joystick1.x>.8
Key.A=Joystick1.Button1
--- End code ---

Had it working perfectly.

I love my wiimote though as it can use the IR sensor, accelorometer, tilt sensor, and all that other stuff for controls.  I have some really cool scripts for the wiimote for my PC games and some of my emulators.

J.Max:
There is a board sold at Lizard Lick Amusements called the Cthulu that is supposed to have a multi console version soon (it presently works on PC and PS3).  It's designed to be easily compatible with controller hacks as well.  I'm using two of them to power my new Astro City panel, and they work really well.  They're also cheap: $40 for an assembled version and $20 if you can solder it yourself.

ViciousXUSMC:
Yeah I saw this, I do not have a PS3.

I was thinking that it emulates a PS3 controller and that it just picks up as a gamepad in windows, much the same way if you plug a 360 controller into a computer it picks up as a gamepad.

I played NullDC the other day and it only works with keyvboards and not gamepads, so sometimes having newer gampad like connections is not good.

How is the board made easy for controller hacks though, I read through most of a thread about the PCB itself and could not figure it out, al the diagrams I saw for multiple PCB's just had them sharing common ground controller boards and doubling up the wires on a terminal block.  You can do this with any PCB.

Hoopz:

--- Quote from: ViciousXUSMC on February 07, 2009, 02:31:29 am ---I played NullDC the other day and it only works with keyvboards and not gamepads, so sometimes having newer gampad like connections is not good.

--- End quote ---
A lot of people use Xpadder to use their gamepads in NullDC.  It works very well.

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