Building on his USB NES pad interface, [Raphaël] released a universal USB joystick interface. It presents a HID device with four directional buttons and eight general purpose buttons. The board uses an ATmega8 and implements USB entirely in software.
Sweet, l built the gamecube/n64 version of his adaptor yesterday, and the day before that l made his Playstation version. l am considering making a housing with an included parallel connector for programming and all extra pins on headers (like a minimal arduino clone), just so l can use one board for whatever adaptor l need. lf l knew a little more l would experiment with storing multiple banks of code and a method to switch to the correct one.
l only have one problem with this implementation, no potentiometer support for the x/y axis, see http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/howto/mind.htm for what l have in mind. lt would be great if this simple controller version supported only 2 axis (or if l had a clue about C so I could tweak the code).
The plan is to put a DualShock joystick into a digital psx pad instead of the d-pad, thus making the perfect controller, slim, light, and with a stick you can actually use. 90° control of a stick with a hyper-extended thumb is not my idea of ergonomics sony!
lt is really too bad, the sony digital pad is my all-time favorite gamepad, l use it on everything from my pc to my xbox to my gamecube, don’t yet have the dreamcast adaptor, too expensive.
Posted at 12:57 pm on Jun 14th, 2008 by Miles
Hey, more news from the front lines, an implementation for retro controllers:
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* Atari / Commodore style joysticks, up to three buttons
* Sega Saturn controllers
* Sega Mega Drive controllers with 3 buttons
* Sega SG-1000 Mark III / Master System controllers
* Nintendo Famicom / NES controllers
* Nintendo Super Famicom / SNES controllers”
Posted at 1:23 pm on Jun 14th, 2008 by Miles
That’s nice, but for those of us with 10 thumbs, this is a better alternative:
http://www.legacyengineer.com/storefront
They have Atari styled joysticks all ready to go brand new and it has an expansion header inside for wiring up extra buttons and such and hey for $16 man you can’t beat that!
I saw that the guy doing these is now talking about a Commodore version next.
Posted at 5:36 pm on Aug 27th, 2009 by glowing
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