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- Tue Feb 24, 2009 10:41 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: The Xbox 360 digital conversion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1580
The Xbox 360 digital conversion
I've been talking to RDC about the Dual Shock controller he adapted to work with the Xbox 360, and the conversation shifted to analog thumbsticks. He informed me that each thumbstick on the Xbox 360 joypad use six leads (a Voltage, Wiper, and Ground for each axis) and that the range of resistance fo...
- Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:56 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Could I and how would I make something like this?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 12638
Re: Could I and how would I make something like this?
A Nintendo Wii works pretty well for this purpose if you're willing to do the Twilight Princess hack on it. Then again, a lot of NES and Genesis games are on the Virtual Console, so you wouldn't even need to do that if you're willing to pay for all your games.
- Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:04 pm
- Forum: 2000's Gaming
- Topic: Analog thumbstick question
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1896
Would it be possible to say, connect an Atari paddle to them? That's what I'd ultimately like to do. There's a potentiometer on the MadCatz Arcade Stick but the spinner it's attached to is quite possibly the worst input device in history. It doesn't turn smoothly, instead scraping the top of the con...
- Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:33 am
- Forum: 2000's Gaming
- Topic: Analog thumbstick question
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1896
Analog thumbstick question
Does anyone know how the Xbox 360 reads input from the thumbsticks? I've noticed that each axis of a thumbstick has a set of three pins. You'd think only two pins would be necessary; one for resistance and the other for ground, but apparently it doesn't work that way on the Xbox 360.
- Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:02 am
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Teeny tiny arcade machine?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1311
Teeny tiny arcade machine?
So here's what I was thinking. You know those handheld games Coleco sold in the early 1980s that looked like really small arcade cabinets? They were really cool conversation pieces, but the only problem is that they only LOOKED like arcade cabinets... the games didn't follow suit. What I'd like to d...
- Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:17 am
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: How to make "comparison videos?"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2133
Loosen your grip on that wallet and buy a copy of Cyberlink PowerDirector. It's easy to use, incredibly versatile, and offers up to six simultaneous picture-in-picture windows. Plus, you can get it for as low as thirty dollars on eBay... that's how I got mine. If you absolutely have to use Wimp-os M...
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:25 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: The ColecoVision power switch switch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8553
- Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:37 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Colecovision Power Supply
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10461
Holy crap, you opened the power supply?! You love to live dangerously, don't you? One of the first things I learned in computer class is NOT to open monitors or power supplies, as they're both filled with electric death. And not the cool kind that clears the screen of flippers in Tempest 2000, eithe...
- Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:55 am
- Forum: 1990's Gaming
- Topic: Replacement Nomad Screen?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12118
The screens are soldered, with hundreds of tiny pins coming off of a plastic ribbon cable - getting one screen from another would be more difficult than finding a GameBoy Light in your toilet reproducing with a Sega Gamegear. many people have done it. it just takes patience and a steady hand. What,...
- Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:50 am
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: What's wrong with my new game!?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3341
- Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:59 pm
- Forum: Portable Screen Hacking
- Topic: The Lynx deserves a better screen.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2299
Thanks for the information! So I guess the only options are either emulation or a Lynx on a chip, eh? I would love a Lynx emulator for the Game Boy Advance... that way, you could play all the games on a Game Boy Micro, and the chunky resolution would no longer be an issue because the screen is so sm...
- Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:05 am
- Forum: Portable Screen Hacking
- Topic: The Lynx deserves a better screen.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2299
The Lynx deserves a better screen.
However, is it feasible to replace the one built into the system? This is likely beyond my skill as a hacker, but I'd still like to know if it could be done. Ideally, the screen would be replaced with the one inside the later VG Pocket systems, as these units are seriously cheap while the quality of...
- Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:23 am
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: Help me trick out my 486
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4747
(scratches head) Wow, this is really one of those "because I can" projects, isn't it? Well, I dunno. I'm an intermediate hacker at best; well below the skills of most of the other forum members. All I could really recommend is add more memory and try to overclock the CPU. Unless you're trying to kee...
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:53 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: The ColecoVision power switch switch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8553
- Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:14 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions and Answers
- Topic: The ColecoVision power switch switch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8553
All right, the lamp is lit! I've got everything working now, but I haven't tried adding the capacitor and resistor... mostly because i don't have them. I do have smaller capacitors (22uF, I believe?), but I'm guessing you can't put them in series to increase their effect the way you could with resis...