Question about 5200 Controllers.

[Video]

I want to build a joystic for my 5200. I've taken the controller appart and mapped out all the wires and circuts. But I want to know, how can I make the joystic? I want a standard Digital joystic, as I understand, most 5200 games are compatible with digital, but I can't find info on how to build the stick part without analog.

 

Any help would be appreciated greatly. I know there was a thingy that was built for 5200 that would allow a 2600/7800 joystick to be used with it, but haven't found one.

[Dantaipan]

Check the FAQ, section 6.3:

 

http://www.atariage.com/5200/faq.html?SystemID=5200

[Voltman3]

Digital only ?!

This works too. IMO

http://personal.riverusers.com/~clghog/52h...digitaldiag.jpg

 

But you can't use the 2600/7800 JS unless you modify them.

 

Using an 8-way self-centering JS with both N.O. & N.C.

contacts will do the job much better tho'.

 

 

Later -

[Video]

Yeah, it'd have to be digital, I know where I can get digital parts. So I'll have to go with that, unless you have Idea's for analog sticks.

 

I thought about using the stick off a PSX controller, since it's all there, but don't know if it'll work. I guess it wouldn't hurt to check it out. And it's self centering, so if it happened to work, I'd have a bunch of cheap sticks on old controllers I have laying around.