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Title: NES actual system with MAME and stuff?
Post by: muffin man on January 14, 2006, 10:37:42 pm

ok here is my thing how can i get my NES actualy 8 bit system to work with my joysticks and buttons, ipac 4, while keeping same joystick wiring to MAME on PC.

anyoen done this, i don't want to use the NES emulator with roms. i would love to use my actualy system :)

thanks

Title: Re: NES actual system with MAME and stuff?
Post by: Tahnok on January 15, 2006, 12:44:17 am

Open up an old pad and hack the buttons directly to the pads. That's about the only way it will work. I suggest an off-brand controller, they tend to be easier to work with.

Title: Re: NES actual system with MAME and stuff?
Post by: GoPodular.com on January 15, 2006, 10:04:27 am

RetroZone has some stuff you can buy if you don't want to hack anything.

http://www.retrousb.com/nintendo.html (http://www.retrousb.com/nintendo.html)

Title: Re: NES actual system with MAME and stuff?
Post by: sc1103 on January 15, 2006, 10:49:58 am

If I understand your question, you want to be able to switch between your NES and computer on the fly wiht little to no incovenience, hopefully only pressing a button or something of that nature.  IF so, you could take a couple of different routs.  If you used a DB-25 swtichbox, with 1 input and two outputs witha switch to determine which output was active, you could then run one set to your encoder and the other to hacked NES pads.  ALternatively, you could use molex connectors and just swap the connection between the NES and computer.  Finally, there was a diagram floating around here for simultaneous connection between DC controls and an IPAC, if your using a similar setup you could probably do that too.  It had to do with using diodes to control the flow or something like that...I honestly dont remember much about it because I went with molex connectors  :P

Title: Re: NES actual system with MAME and stuff?
Post by: muffin man on January 15, 2006, 12:08:07 pm

yeah basically i want to run acutally systems with my computer and ipac without changing wires all the way.  for right now i just want to use my NES

i was thinkin of routing two wires from buttons and joysticks  one for ipac and other to nes pad.

what do you guys think?

Title: Re: NES actual system with MAME and stuff?
Post by: sc1103 on January 15, 2006, 09:09:13 pm

Quote from: mus on January 15, 2006, 12:08:07 pm

yeah basically i want to run acutally systems with my computer and ipac without changing wires all the way.  for right now i just want to use my NES

i was thinkin of routing two wires from buttons and joysticks  one for ipac and other to nes pad.

what do you guys think?

If so, look up that dreamcast wiring diagram I was talking about, because you'll need diodes probably.

Title: Re: NES actual system with MAME and stuff?
Post by: Tahnok on January 16, 2006, 04:48:41 pm

Quote from: GoPodular.com on January 15, 2006, 10:04:27 am

RetroZone has some stuff you can buy if you don't want to hack anything.

http://www.retrousb.com/nintendo.html (http://www.retrousb.com/nintendo.html)

Those are normal pads hacked to go into USB. They will not let you interface controls into the NES easily (actually, at all).