Video Game Controller Family Tree

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I feel it's worth pointing out that the SFC "proto" pad looks suspicously like a random Famiclone pad.

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I thought that too. I was wondering why it had a DB-9 plug on the end.

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I'd just assumed because it saved them money on concept designs.

No point in comissioning the custom connectors until you're reachign the end stage.

 

Mis-ID'ed Famiclone pad makes a lot of sense too, though.

 

 

*studies board traces*

Yup, it's a Famiclone pad. There's no way to get 4 buttons out of those connections. Either the tops and bottoms are linked, or the lefts and rights are linked.

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Dead giveaways for me were the fact that it said "Super Family" (One of those Close but not quite there Famiclone names) and the fact that it said "NASA," a once popular brand of Famiclone. Pile on top of that the fact that nintendo hardware prototypes NEVER (ok, never say never) get out. If SFC pads were floating about...I'd know about it.

I'd missed the NASA label.

Figured Super Family could have been from a dev logo(Super Family Computer), particularly given the battered state of the pad.

Wasn't aware on the lack of proto leakage.

 

That said...I think that the web contains most of the relevant controllers...but I got teh feeling that there should be a confusing array of links between everything...this all seems way too neat.

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Yah. There's a few that really need another link or 2.

Aside from the INTV and Vec connections I mentioned earlier(I think of more possible changes every time I see it)...

 

The DualShock should be connected to the GameCube and XBox.

Debatably, the DualShock should be connected to the XBox, XBox S, and 360 pads independently, as each one's borrowed more attributes from Sony's pad.

 

 

The Rev wand really shouldn't be connected to anything.

It's a fundamentally diffrent device, much like the INTV pad was.