snes pad 2 PC

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:49 am

WOOOHOOO!

Perhaps I'm just lame.. but I just completed a mod of my SNES joypad hooking it into my old printer cable and plugged it in. It works!!!

I just tried play Dungeon master for SNES with the real SNES joypad and it worked perfectly.. quite a wonderfull feeling!

Now all I need to do is find some roms for some of the other carts I own like my Super metroid here.. ahh ... yes.

moo

andyboy_uk · Post by **andyboy_uk** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:18 am

Cows,

I use an EMU called ZSNES and there is a little addon menu option that you can enable "SNES mouse on Port 1" and then use the mouse. Particularly useful in games like Cannon Fodder. You could see if that worked on your machine/emulator, I havent got my DM Snes working yet. The image comes up as white lines rather than a dungeon view.

More work required I guess.

A

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:45 am

need to use SNES9x to get it working.. the latest ver works wonders. Anyway, I wanted the controller for other games as well.. I doubt I'll play all the way through DM .. just not enough time these days

moo

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:42 am

oh and if anyone else wants to do this I'll share the links and my experience doing it.. wasn't as hard as i thought..

moo

Post by **Gambit37** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 1:10 am

I'd be interested, but I don't have a SNES anymore -- sold it on eBay. What are the best (& cheapest) joypads on the market for simulating a SNES pad, that could be configured to work with Snes9X?

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:43 am

well I've seen some pads close to the n64 controller for around 35 Candian. so that would be about 17pounds or so for you..
and you wouldn't need to mod anything.

moo

Jardice · Post by **Jardice** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:21 am

Agh!..I wish I knew how you managed to do that.....unless it's as simple as modifying the cord to fit the Snes pad( of course I don't have the resources yet to try such things...but it wouldn't hurt to know for later)

Edit- My typing's going bad...I better start practicing again..

Post by **cowsmanaut** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 6:14 pm

well, here's the little thing I followed..

http://www.westga.edu/~stu7440/projects/snes.html

this tells you most of it.. though I had to make a little tool to check the cable for which prong went to which wire.

tool:

grab a reasonable length of wire to make the tool. cut it in half so you have one to touch to one side of the cable and the other to touch the other side.

take an AA battery put a flashlight bulb on one end of it and attach one of the wires to the upper part of the light bulb (there are the two areas of the bulb pos and neg) tape these in place. then tape the other wire to the base of the battery. Then cross the other ends of the wires to make sure the light lights up. I found sometimes the bulb can float a bit away from the battery and needs to be held down.

Anyway.. how this should work is you touch one wire and then progressively touch each of the prongs untill it lights up.. then mark the colour and prong number this way you will know what wire to solder to.

anymore info you need just ask.

moo