S1500 Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 For those who can't find or afford a roller controller, how hard would it be to construct one's own? Like, perhaps, maybe with Audrino, you hook up a mouse to some circuitry & use the mouse + buttons as a roller controller. How complicated are the innards for reading the motion of the trackball? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Oltmans Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Shouldn't be too hard. There are two modes of operation that the controller uses... a joystick emulation mode which uses the normal directional inputs and the other as a normal trackball using the spinner inputs on each port (one for each direction). In trackball mode it uses a quadrature encoded optical pickup like any other mechanical trackball or mouse uses. You could use a mouse as you suggest, or scavenge a trackball from another system or an arcade parts shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 (edited) Collector's Card & Games website has a loose Roller Controller with Slither cart for $20. They have CIB Roller Controllers (box has water damage) for only $25 and state the controller and cart are in excellent condition. http://www.collectorscardsandgames.com/new/Colecovision.html Edited April 9, 2014 by NIAD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coleconut Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Collector's Card & Games website has a loose Roller Controller with Slither cart for $20. They have CIB Roller Controllers (box has water damage) for only $25 and state the controller and cart are in excellent condition. http://www.collectorscardsandgames.com/new/Colecovision.html Just be prepared for a wait or. ..?I ordered one of these a few weeks ago from him along with some other stuff. He replied next day that he has more outstanding orders than time to fill them. When I hadnt heard back I emailed again to which he replied again he was backlogged and anyway I wouldnt be happy with the condition of stuff Id ordered so forget it. Umm I knew what the condition was and didnt make any demands or stipulations so am confused by this response a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 That's a great price for the controller & Slither(even though I have Slither), but the site isn't secure for ordering. It also looks badly put together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 That's too bad as he has a lot of stuff listed that people are looking acquire. I guess he must be pretty busy to pass up a sale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 Sounds like we're at the Best Electronics retro level of e-commerce(ie none) here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLic0ne t0aD Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 I was about to order one as well.. a NIB (box water damaged) Roller Controller. This will hold me over until I find a nice(cheap) CIB roller controller.. I will email him again to make sure he can mail in a timely fashion.. thanks for the info guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightywiz Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 I ordered one from him and got it within a week, but this was during summer 2013. the one I got had a button that sticks. haven't taken it apart to fix as of yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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