PS1 Joystick on SnesP

mmoshkowich · Post by **mmoshkowich** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:36 pm

I am currently in the planning stages of my SNESp. I have a ps1 controller lying around and I saw the LOB had a joystick on his Nintendo Super Boy, can anybody explain how this is done.

HBN · Post by **HBN** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:38 pm

He glued a joystick top to the d-pad, as I understand it.

eurddrue · Post by **eurddrue** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:09 pm

HBN wrote:He glued a joystick top to the d-pad, as I understand it.

I thougth that he glued it to the tact switches themselves

SonyPortableizer · Post by **SonyPortableizer** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:41 pm

Nope that old break off easily

Gordon1 · Post by **Gordon1** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:29 pm

It was a 4-way tact switch.

sdh · Post by **sdh** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:01 pm

I have totally missed that one, could we have a link please?

jackbond64 · Post by **jackbond64** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:01 pm

hello, sorry for bumping this vintage thread

. but i was wondering this same exact thing, i want to just put a joy stick over the original dpad and i also want a dpad, i want to put a switch on the side to switch it from dpad to joy stick. anyone have a link of a snes project that has a joy stick.

Thanks!

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:38 pm

hello. I just did this the other day with my atarip

will probably write a tutorial later, anyway, here's how to do it:

desolder the joystick

now you should have two potentiometers at the border, with 3 pins each

it should basically look like this:
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with the lines being legs of the potentiometers. Connect the two middle lines
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to ground

now you can use the other 4 legs as switches.
if you go up with the joystick, for example:

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the upper leg on the side will be connected to ground, thus acting as a switch

another example:
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It's that simple! The potentiometer will have a so low resistance on the side you're tilting it to, it will work as a switch. If you want to gain sensitivity (because you have to push far to achieve this in it's original form, sometimes), connect a strong (the weaker, the more sensitive it will be, the earlier it will react to a push) resistor between the other legs and ground

jackbond64 · Post by **jackbond64** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 5:26 pm

wow thanks this is good, you should take some pics, where did you get the stick from, your ps2 controller?

what about something like this?

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 4:12 am

is that an original N64 joystick? Can't use these. They use a different technology.

Y'see the N64 joystick was (for no reason at all) based on a technology that would make a wheel with many holes spin when you pushed the joystick, it was basically the same as an old mouse. Now this technology was not only more expensive but also liked to die sooner, which is why 3rd party n64 controllers use potentiometers as well, and are thus OK to use

I got my stick from a 3rdparty gamecube controller

Mario · Post by **Mario** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:23 pm

Well, it was the first joystick ever made, maybe Nintendo just didn't think to use pots...

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:32 pm

that it was, but they never changed the design either