Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Consoles => Topic started by: Crowquill on February 01, 2005, 04:11:09 pm
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For a while I've been using the Game Elements PS to XBOX/GameCube adapter. With the variety of PS controllers I have, I still haven't been able to get the GameCube to work with anything but Sony pads. Has anyone had any luck with third party pads? I need one to hack for an arcade stick and would like to find a pad that works with all the systems and the adapter I already have.
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Hack a "PSOne" dual shock pad. That is the best compatibility around, and gamestop still has em for $5 used. I recommend the H-Series, but if you can find an A-Series with the ribbon connector, thats even easier to hack (ala SpiffyShoe's instructions).
I forget which GameCube adapter I bought, but its super cheap and really small...and works fine with the PSOne pad (which uses digital buttons).
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SpiffyShoe's tutorial is one of those sites that I'm wondering why I've never found before. I get compatibility and I don't have to use my pitiful soldering skills. I'd always heard that hacking Sony pads is damn near impossible without damaging the board, but this is a really easy solution. I just wish it would let me tie into L3 and R3.
Coincidentally, my old dual shock controllers that are floating around are both model# SCPH-1200 A. I bought these right after Dual Shocks hit the market. I actually started getting sentimental and debating if I really want to take them apart. Then again, maybe they can get a new lease on life as a big frickin' joystick.
BTW, the site with the tutorial is:
http://home.comcast.net/~spiffyshoes/DualShockHack/
There's been a long-running thread on Shoryuken.com's boards about it.
Thanks Dave_K.!!!