SNES to Parallel Adapter

F · Post by F » Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:09 pm

I'm thinking of hacking a SNES Multitap to work in a parallel port using this tutorial. I'm going to use the first method (where he has just the cable, not the box with the 4 ports in it). Should it work if I use a multitap instead of a controller extension?

So, instead of using the female end of an extension cable, I plan to just cut off the male end of a multitap. This should work, right? I don't want to waste $15 if I can't help it.

Edit: It seems that my post has been moved to Super Nintendo 16-bit. Why? It doesn't have anything to do with portablizing a SNES, just with hacking a SNES controller to work with a PC. It seems like it would belong in a different forum, but whatever.

Anyways, is it impossible for this to work or do you guys just not know?

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:16 pm

Should work just fine, pending you're either planning to hack every port into the parallel cable individually, or you have found a driver for your OS that accepts multi-tap input. The old DOS SNESKey did, but I haven't heard of any Windows drivers that do.

F · Post by F » Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:57 pm

Crap. I thought I could just convert the single end. I didn't know I had to hack each port individually