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[pimpmaul69]

since i think i was wrong posting these in the atari 2600 since no one seemed to care i might have better luck posting them here. these are two mods i did. one is taking a nunchuck and making an atari 2600 paddle for wii2600. the other is a classic controller mod that lets me run all atari controllers even with rapidfire and for genesis i can use a 3 button genesis controller only by moving 2 wires inside the genesis controller to make a and c buttons work. i also can do some simple wire movement inside an sms, atari 7800 and msx controller to make them work. i can make an nes controller work if i just replace wiring with a genesis cable. on the classic controller box it has 3 buttons for select home and start. the switch is for controllers and the other direction is to use an atari paddle. the only mod on the paddle i had to do was wire a ground wire from the button inside the paddle to the 3rd leg on the potentiometer inside the paddle.

[Lord Helmet]

Ooohhhh! I need to make me one of those paddles. Great mod!

[pimpmaul69]

glad ive inspired atleast 1 person

[tremoloman2006]

This is a killer mod! I love the paddle to Wii idea. Since having Stella on my Wii I hardly use anything else.

[wiicrew]

Great paddle MOd! Trying here to build it! I got tons of parts/broken nunchucks and a few sets of atari paddles! Could you post up some more directions on how to build this! Thank you!!

Edited by wiicrew, Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:26 AM.

[radiohead]

I too would be very interested in step by step instructions and soldering points for this build. Love to have a working 2600 joystick via the nunchuk port for Wii2600. Your materials look easy to find. Very clever!

[pimpmaul69]

radiohead, on Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:30 AM, said:

I too would be very interested in step by step instructions and soldering points for this build. Love to have a working 2600 joystick via the nunchuk port for Wii2600. Your materials look easy to find. Very clever!

i will do a joystick mod to show u how.. it is obviously different than paddle mod and i will have to seperate the grounds in the joystick

Edited by pimpmaul69, Tue Nov 1, 2011 7:54 PM.

[pimpmaul69]

And without further ado, my atari joystick nunchuck mod.


First desolder everything from the board.


Remove the potentiometers and super glue them in the center position so they dont shift or fall out.


Cut off all the excess rubber from the cable. Do not remove metal bar.


Run the cable through the controller and solder back in. Bend the pins on the pots after they are dry and solder them in as such. Also it might be best to hot glue the plug wire where you removed the excess rubber to hold the wire in place.


solder wires to the potentiometers and the 2 points for the button. The green wire is soldered to the center pin. On a side note do not use big and strong wires to use as the button wires, you will rip the traces out.


Cut the traces where the X's are. Pay attention to how the wire were soldered on the nunchuck board and solder them matching how they are on the atari board. Also solder the 3 jumper wires you see.


Put the controller back together.

Edited by pimpmaul69, Tue Nov 1, 2011 10:08 PM.

[radiohead]

Wow, that's brilliant! I tried something like that, but more mechancial with the potentiometers and the control stick... and it clearly didn't work. Will definately try this. Thanx!

[pimpmaul69]

Unfortunately the paddle does not work right on steeplechase and astroblast. Those 2 games use both paddle and joystick and the emulater auto chooses the joystick and you cant change that option.

[bomberpunk]

how's about a driving controller mod for those wii fishing games?

[pimpmaul69]

i am waiting for a driving controller, but i think i can make it work just fine.

[bomberpunk]

i would be interesting in buying one (driving controller mod) if you decide to sell.