joeybastard

I could be the Japenese only Famicom Wars or the Turbogrfx 16 game Military Madness.

I'm guessing that since he used big arcade type buttons that he didn't want to clutter up the panel. If I remember right he just put 1-4 on there for single player options.

Yeah that's what I thought but I thought maybe there was 1 decent one since they've put out a lot of 'em.

I really liked Wario: Master of Disguise. It uses the stylus a lot though which doesn't bother me but I know some folks don't like that.

I'm willing to bet one of my testicles that it's not a cool game. By your icon, you are another one of those Toasters. If you have a metal testicle, you may be losing it. I'm not too concerned judging by the other carts you have been involved with.

We're all familiar with the Radica Space Invaders stick mods for use with the 7800 but since those are getting much harder to come by, I'm looking for alternatives. I was wondering if any of the other dedicated plug n play game sticks are worth looking into for conversion? Are the Jakk's sticks any good? I know they look silly but if the internals are decent, I can live with that.

I know this isn't a regular controller like being discussed but I picked up a Intec Pro Mini 2 Racing Wheel for the GC at Goodwill. It was brand new and only $6. It wasn't worth it. What an incredible piece of crap. The right/left buttons which should be the accelerator/brake don't work properly and seem to be digital rather than analog which sucks ass for gas pedal. If you see it, don't buy it unless you want it just to have it. I should have bought a sandwich at the Quizno's down the street with the money.

I had the good fortune to play that on real hardware at PacManPlus's house when he had a game night in Dec. 07. JohnnyWC did a GREAT job on it.

By the way, I don't how many people saw it but here's an excellent site with CV controller info made by Chromesphere here on AA: Chromesphere Admittedly I'm too dumb to understand much of this but since many of you guys are way more advanced in this stuff, this site will probably be invaluable.

Technically they are diodes not resistors, and technically it'd be 19 wires worth of data (4 directions, 2 buttons, 12 keys, 1 common) and technically the standard ColecoVision controller only uses 7 wires. Still mind boggling never-the-less. Yikes, that even sounds more daunting then I thought. That's why I just tapped into the CV board and used the stock number pad. I know I don't have the skill to figure out a way to rewire all of that stuff into a new design.

So here's what I did in case anybody else feels like trying it. I take no responsibility for anyone screwing up their Genny or CV controllers trying this. This is the just the wiring part, I'll leave it up to you to on how you want to route the wires, cut the cases, etc. I just drilled a whole in the bottom of the Genny pad to lead the wires up from the CV board. Hacked off the stick part of the CV stick and attached the two cases with screws. The first thing I did was open up the Genny pad and remove the chip and little tan resistors. I just clipped them off with a pair of dykes. I used the soldering iron and a desolder bulb to clear the holes on the resisitors a bit since that was where I was hooking up my direction wires. Then before I attached anything I also made 3 slices into the board to break the contact that was originally there for the Genny buttons. At this point I had to drill a small hole on either side of the fire buttons(4 holes total) to give me a place to attach the wires for the fire buttons. Take a look at the picture of the Genny pad with the front/back view: 1. The red dots are where I hooked the wires for the directionals and the blue dot is the ground I used for all 4 of them. It's easy to look at the pad and see where the original connection runs to these solder points so figuring out up/down/left/right is a piece of cake. 2. The yellow lines are where I cut the board to break the original Genny's contacts. I had to cut into the board to do it for which I used a little hobby roto-cut thing I have. 3. The red half circles near the yellow are where I attached the fire button wires. I had to drip some solder onto the contacts first, then solder the wires on. I didn't use the C button or the start button from the Genny pad. OK now for the CV stick. I'm using Doubledown's picture of the board from another thread and just made some notes. I cut the old fire buttons off the board and just attached the wires where I put the colored dots in the picture. It's pretty cut and dry when you look at it. The cool thing is, you don't need to use a Genny pad for this. Since a controller is really just a series of on/off switches, you can make whatever configuration you want. You just need to use a CV board and attach the wires where I put the colored dots in the picture. Then hook those wires to your corresponding switches. I used a Genny pad mostly because it's comfortable, simple and had the gold contacts I could get solder to stick to. Have fun, I'm making an arcade style stick with this method next

Oh it's butt ugly but really this was just a trial run to see if I could get everything to function. I'm completely amatuer at this, I don't know anything about electronics other what I've observed about how these things work. Getting this to work is a big deal to me and since I thought the result was pretty funny looking, I posted it. I think you'd be surprised at the feel though, for a kludged together thing, it's actually pretty comfortable. I need to trim some of the CV stick case down where it attaches to the Genny pad for a little bit more grip but that's really minimal. You're right about using a different cord too since the CV cords are too damn short. He shouldn't. Doubledown's controllers are really nice and I'm sure they are better than the mutant thing I came up with. I'm not trying to compete

I knew I wouldn't be 1st for long!

1. I'm a huge fan of the SACs myself and used them most of the time before I made this thing. I haven't played every CV game I have with it yet but it's definitely more comfortable than the SA sticks for some games. For example, Q*bert and Q*Bert's Qubes are MUCH better with this pad held at an angle. I was never happy with the SACS on those two. This is also better on games that need a little more precision directionals like Montezuma's Revenge and Miner 2049er although the SACS were pretty good on those anyway. I think it's personal comfort thing but I think I'll be using this on probably half of my CV games. The SACS are just better for some games, no doubt. 2. I have a feeling I'll prefer the SACS for that when I get my sweaty little palms on a cart but you never know. Tomorrow (most likely), I'll post a some pics of the inside and give a quick description of what to do. I'm a complete spaz with this stuff but if I got it to work, I think anybody probably can. If you're good at this stuff(and I suspect you are), this is a piece of cake. I have to look at the pile of Genny pads(I had to use a certain board revision) I have, I might make a few more of these so you might not have to do it yourself

I was inspired by Doubledown's beautiful NES CV gamepads to make one of my own but I wanted a Genny Pad and I wanted a number pad on it. Behold the ugliest CV gamepad ever but it works great and was pretty easy to do. While it looks really awkward, it's actually just as comfortable as a regular Genny pad with a tiny bit of extra weight from the CV board and half of the body. Both fire buttons work and it was pretty easy to use some of the existing Genny circuit board for the directionals. I think I'm going to name it the Sunuvabichi 1000

First try this morning 138,844

The DS batteries are available from Radio Shack. I'm guessing the Micro is too.

I'm willing to bet one of my testicles that it's not a cool game.

Is there a shooter that isn't in real time? How does that work?

hast thou slayed the troll on the emu? I'm beginning to wonder if it's even possible. FYI - ColEM24 is the only emu I've found that works with the rom that doesn't result in the graphics getting all blocky and screwy like the others after you fly for a couple of screens. No, but I stink at the game. I'll try later on in Meka. Unfortunately I don't have this one on cart.

I play it occasionally in emulation. It's OK, not great but but not terrible.

Lots of good SMS games, here's some of my favs: Shinobi Double Dragon Wonder Boy in Monsterland Phantasy Star Astro Warrior (although many people disagree with me on this one. They're wrong ) Enduro Racer R.C. Grand Prix Rocky(not as good as everybody else claims but it's good) The SMS has a ton of great lightgun games. It would be cool if they had those and let you use the Wii remote as the gun.

It's only happened to me once on Mousetrap but I assumed it was dirty since with any other cart, that's been the case. I never heard anything about it being messed up like that, I wonder if there's any info over on DP about it?

!!! You're braver than me. Any used cart I buy for any system gets cleaned before I try it out. Who knows what horrible things people have done to these carts and I don't want that mess in my system.

I've had dirty carts become garbled in the middle of a game. Give it a good cleaning. With CVs, a dirty power switch can cause a bunch of hassles too. Try the cart first, it's much less involved than the switch.