12 May 2011, 15:44 | #1 |
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Amiga Joystick to USB Adapter Cable
Amiga Joystick to USB Adapter
This adapter cable allows you to plug your standard Amiga joystick into a PC equipped with USB. Features a 9-pin Male connector to USB A connector. Supports up to 2x fire buttons on Amiga joystick. Product Link: http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/...oducts_id=1036 Last edited by amigakit.com; 03 June 2011 at 12:48. |
20 May 2011, 20:27 | #2 |
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Excellent product. Will be attractive to many who don't want to solder a 9-pin onto a slaughtered USB joypad.
Those who think playing emus with joypad (including WinUAE, MAME and consoles) is more or less like playing with a real joystick won't believe how much more fun the challenging games are with a real good proper joystick! |
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Indeed. C-64 and Amiga games were made for joysticks, not joypads. ;-)
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24 May 2011, 10:39 | #4 |
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Thanks, hopefully it will be useful for people who use Amiga Forever/WinUAE, Frodo and Mame etc
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24 May 2011, 10:42 | #5 |
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I assume this will work nicely with Master System/Megadrive pads too?
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24 May 2011, 12:35 | #8 |
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Which if I recall is normal, well was when I used one for my Amiga back i the day. Dont forget, we are going from USB to 9pin. Cant wire up 6 buttons as there are only 3 connections for buttons on 9pin. |
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24 May 2011, 12:57 | #11 |
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Ah ok, thanks FOL.
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03 June 2011, 12:48 | #12 |
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I can confirm that the second fire button is supported. Hope this helps.
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03 June 2011, 13:28 | #13 |
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03 June 2011, 15:16 | #14 |
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I hope one day a reversed one can be made!
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08 June 2011, 10:07 | #15 |
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The Megadrive/Genesis pad multiplexes the signals, the pins have a different meaning depending on whether the select pin is low or high..
http://pinouts.ru/Game/genesiscontroller_pinout.shtml Shouldn't be too difficult to adapt. Once upon a time I was very vocal against using unmodified Megadrive pads in the Amiga because of the pad's tendency to pull down pin 7, which happens to be +5V out in the Amiga/C-64, depending on what buttons you press on the pad. However these days I don't bother, since no-one cares about little details like this. Unfortunately no-one's managed to burn their motherboard traces either, so I haven't been able to get the last laugh. :-) Last edited by Jope; 08 June 2011 at 10:12. |
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Thanks for the info Fol. Where you waiting for me to need them for my C=64x project? Two ones just ordered.
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08 June 2011, 19:27 | #17 |
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not wanting to steal Amigakit's thunder, but I prefer the donald.de DIY kit, as it is same price, but 2x DB9 sticks on 1 USB plug
http://www.retro-donald.de/pages/usb...ickadapter.php 15 euro, and works fantastic does this one lag btw? |
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Retro-Donalds adapter supports 2-buttons only. Sorry, it was designed for computer games. Last edited by Retro-Nerd; 10 June 2011 at 16:44. |
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