MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Some questions

> > > 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.

That's what I mean, the MegaDrive pad outputs about 5v when a button isn't active, but outputs a grounding signal when the switch is closed. The MegaDrive 3-Button pad, like I have said, is easily read:

Switch - Signal Grounded - Signal open

Pin 1 - Up - Up
Pin 2 - Down - Down
Pin 3 - Ground - Left
Pin 4 - Ground - Right
Pin 5 - 5v - 5v
Pin 6 - A - B
Pin 7 - Signal Switch
Pin 8 - Ground - Ground
Pin 9 - Start - C

I just needed a way to swith constantly between the two modes and then output steadily.

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Edited by Naoki (11/08/10 01:12 PM)