> > A true arcade joystick is ~$11, buttons are about $2.50 a piece. Buy 1 piece of MDF > > particle board from Lowes or w/e and you can make a personal authentic arcade > > controller similar to those Tekken6 arcade sticks for PS3 and whatnot.Building a > > controller doesn't cost much at all. > > To buy it may not cost much, however I have no tools for cutting/drilling/ect. Plus, > I have no space to stor it.
I once connected an Atari 2600 joystick to an arcade board. All you need is any kind of simple old console or PC gamepad controller that shorts a pad to ground for each direction and button(s) and you just wire that directly to the JAMMA connector on the Sega JAMMA I/O board. There's plenty of info about how to do it and good examples of many converted controllers if you look around.
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