Drakon
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So I had a bunch of cheap old spare control pads for various systems sitting around. And I straight wired some arcade sticks into svga ports for use with my arcade supergun here:
http://forums.modretro.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5558
So I figured.....why not make padhacks for fun?! ....and so I did. Some console games are pretty darn fun with a nice arcade stick. I really enjoy sonic 2, mega man 2, super marioland, tetris (gameboy), as well as a good collection of fighting games using arcade sticks. Half of these pcbs I'd already wired into arcade sticks in the past for various projects and then just removed the pcbs and had them sitting in my closet all ready to be wired into whatever. I just bought some cheap project boxes from an electronics store and installed svga ports into them. I didn't do anything super fancy didn't even sand any surfaces flat just painted over the glue so atleast the colour matched the box. Anyway here's a picture of the pad hacks stacked on top of each other (sorry about the bad quality lazy picture taking on my part)
The bottom one has a big letter that I bought before I found out my store carried smaller letters. Anyway here's a description of the pad hacks
The top one (letter p) is a pcb that supports playstation 2, 1, and xbox 1. Also plugging it into a ps1 to usb adapter lets me use the stick on my pc.
The middle one (letter g) is just a sega genesis control stick but you could probably also use it with an atari and commodore systems. It's just a 3 button controller I don't have any genesis games that make use of 6 buttons
And the bottom pad hack (big letter N) is a snes pad. A long time ago I found out that the snes pad is fully compatible with a nes so I just wired a nes plug into the end of the cord so that pad hack works on both my snes and nes.
And I also use a super gameboy in my snes to play gameboy games with my arcade sticks. Once again here's the stick that's compatible with these pad hacks as well as my supergun
it's a hrap (hori real arcade pro) 2 sa (special...addition?) where I replaced the sanwa with a seimitsu ls32 and removed the restrictor plate
I have a second stick that's compatible with this stuff too but it's literally a stick built out of spare parts so I didn't bother taking a picture of it. But it uses the sanwa taken out of the hrap so it's still a great stick
Building cords for these pad hacks was a bit tricky. For wires I found old printer cables in the trash/at garage sales which have more than the 15 wires I need to straight wire up my sticks. And for the male connectors I had this old dvd decoder card that I wasn't using anymore that had a short male to male svga cord that went from the main video card into the decoder card. Luckily this short cable had all 15 pins of the svga cord wired on seperate wires which I found out afterwards is a really rare thing.
Here's what my connector looks like going from a stick into an extension cord. I just built the female connector into a smallish project box
And here's the end of the extension cord that goes into a pad hack or supergun. Again I used a small project box to hide the massive amounts of soldered wires and electrical tape that connect an old printer cable into a svga jack.
That was a fun side project
http://forums.modretro.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5558
So I figured.....why not make padhacks for fun?! ....and so I did. Some console games are pretty darn fun with a nice arcade stick. I really enjoy sonic 2, mega man 2, super marioland, tetris (gameboy), as well as a good collection of fighting games using arcade sticks. Half of these pcbs I'd already wired into arcade sticks in the past for various projects and then just removed the pcbs and had them sitting in my closet all ready to be wired into whatever. I just bought some cheap project boxes from an electronics store and installed svga ports into them. I didn't do anything super fancy didn't even sand any surfaces flat just painted over the glue so atleast the colour matched the box. Anyway here's a picture of the pad hacks stacked on top of each other (sorry about the bad quality lazy picture taking on my part)
The bottom one has a big letter that I bought before I found out my store carried smaller letters. Anyway here's a description of the pad hacks
The top one (letter p) is a pcb that supports playstation 2, 1, and xbox 1. Also plugging it into a ps1 to usb adapter lets me use the stick on my pc.
The middle one (letter g) is just a sega genesis control stick but you could probably also use it with an atari and commodore systems. It's just a 3 button controller I don't have any genesis games that make use of 6 buttons
And the bottom pad hack (big letter N) is a snes pad. A long time ago I found out that the snes pad is fully compatible with a nes so I just wired a nes plug into the end of the cord so that pad hack works on both my snes and nes.
And I also use a super gameboy in my snes to play gameboy games with my arcade sticks. Once again here's the stick that's compatible with these pad hacks as well as my supergun
it's a hrap (hori real arcade pro) 2 sa (special...addition?) where I replaced the sanwa with a seimitsu ls32 and removed the restrictor plate
I have a second stick that's compatible with this stuff too but it's literally a stick built out of spare parts so I didn't bother taking a picture of it. But it uses the sanwa taken out of the hrap so it's still a great stick
Building cords for these pad hacks was a bit tricky. For wires I found old printer cables in the trash/at garage sales which have more than the 15 wires I need to straight wire up my sticks. And for the male connectors I had this old dvd decoder card that I wasn't using anymore that had a short male to male svga cord that went from the main video card into the decoder card. Luckily this short cable had all 15 pins of the svga cord wired on seperate wires which I found out afterwards is a really rare thing.
Here's what my connector looks like going from a stick into an extension cord. I just built the female connector into a smallish project box
And here's the end of the extension cord that goes into a pad hack or supergun. Again I used a small project box to hide the massive amounts of soldered wires and electrical tape that connect an old printer cable into a svga jack.
That was a fun side project
