> > > 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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On a quest for Digital 573 and Dancing Stage EuroMix 2
By gods I've found it!
Edited by Naoki (11/08/10 01:12 PM)
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