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Title: Grey N64 Controller + Boom Adaptor :(
Post by: Dagg on June 01, 2005, 08:10:09 am
Ok so a week or so ago I was trying to figure on the best way to control N64 on my cab,  like many others I went the route of buying an adaptor for the orignal controllers I owned.

My choices seemed to be the adaptoid or the lik-sang boom adaptor.  I decided on the lik-sang boom adaptor because it also handled PS1 and PS2 controllers.

So it arrives yesterday and I spend all night tinkering with it only to find out it doesnt work with some color N64 controllers.  Both of mine are grey and I can install it and calibrate them but when I select it under controller plugin I cannot remap the keys to the joystick inputs.

Has anyone had any luck with this thing, also if you did what color N64 controller are you using.

I either need to get controllers that work with this POS or buy an adaptoid (which I am thinking I should have done in the first place)

 >:(
Title: Re: Grey N64 Controller + Boom Adaptor :(
Post by: Teknique on June 01, 2005, 10:00:41 am
Colors dont matter, they need to be official (as in ...came with the system or marketed by nintendo) controllers - not some aftermarket cheapos. 
Title: Re: Grey N64 Controller + Boom Adaptor :(
Post by: JoyMonkey on June 01, 2005, 10:19:08 am
Yeah, I had a Mad Catz controller that refused to work with that adapter, but my real (by Nintendo) N64 controllers worked fine, even the grey one.
Title: Re: Grey N64 Controller + Boom Adaptor :(
Post by: Dagg on June 01, 2005, 10:41:55 am
They are the official Nintendo controllers.
Title: Re: Grey N64 Controller + Boom Adaptor :(
Post by: versapak on June 01, 2005, 10:51:43 am
Wasn't grey the original color controller?


Seems kind of messed up, that those wouldn't work with any adapter.


Seems even more weird that the adapter is a racist in the first place though.


Title: Re: Grey N64 Controller + Boom Adaptor :(
Post by: Dagg on June 02, 2005, 02:12:57 pm
Update:

Got this working but it was different for both of my grey original controllers (I had no idea any other color than grey existed until 2 days ago). 

The first controller I used the "Restore Defaults" when in the Control Panel-->Gamepads, this made the controller more stable and I was able to map the keys in PJ64, I think what was happening was that the calibration was off and every time I tried to map a key it was seeing something on the gamepad as being pressed (the analog stick) and always filling that in.

I tried that for the second one but that didnt work, so I lowered the dead zone slider and was able to calibrate that on myself and finally get PJ64 to except the inputs.