doctorclu Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 (edited) I *LOVE* Atari800DC on the Dreamcast, and use the 5200 mode for the 5200 High Score Thread contests. Always thought it would be cool to have a regular Atari 2600 on the Dreamcast for this though, so I started looking around. I opened up the typical Dreamcast joystick... And just looked at that. Like a good game system, the Dreamcast joystick is really minimal. And strangely, one of the most responsive Dreamcast sticks I have found yet. But this was not useable to me (readily) for hacking. At least not as readily as this one... A Performance "Astropad". I was not impressed with this as a controller, but opening it up was a wealth of wires, basic pads, etc. Eventually I got to looking the D-Pad on this controller and realized that it was just a midget version of the circuit board in the 2600 controller: So I worked on this, connecting the Atari 2600 stick to this D-Pad was almost wire for wire. And then I put the Dreamcast Astropad controller and the Atari 2600 controller together... ... it was a fun thing to do. Though I think I will take another Astropad, or with this one, just add a nine pin port to connect Atari 2600 joysticks up directly to the controller itself, or put the Astropad into a base and let the controller connect to that. But it is nice to know one way to connect an Atari 2600 joystick to a Dreamcast. Edited February 11, 2008 by doctorclu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdub_bobby Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 That's awesome-looking! Where's the trigger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic George 2K3 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 Well, that's an interesting thing to do with a Dreamcast controller. Makes a whole lot of sense considering its girth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 That's awesome-looking! Where's the trigger? Thanks to you both. The controller is actually used in reverse so I could use the button on the left hand side, and then I use the regular buttons at that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Looks like the original Xbox controller with an erection. Still, if you've got to have a 2600 joystick and access to all the buttons on a standard Dreamcast pad, that's a pretty good way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Looks like the original Xbox controller with an erection. Still, if you've got to have a 2600 joystick and access to all the buttons on a standard Dreamcast pad, that's a pretty good way to go. LOL.... kinda does doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 Here are the updates of my tinkering... a more sterdy Atari 2600/Dreamcast controller combo, and one where I made where I can plug up a 2600 stick to the Dreamcast controller... mostly. I had to had an additional ground wire for the fire button, but in the end it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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