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Well, if Kotick gets the boot I do hope they replace him with somebody who has the balls to tell Nintendo to "fuck off" and give MicroSoft permission to release "GoldenEye" (XBL) already.....

Atariboy, on Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:15 PM, said:

I have one of these and opened it up. It uses a mechanical encoder similar to ones normally used for "Tempest 2000" rotary controller hacks.

And the rotary controller code for T2K also maps the encoder to the left and right to the Jag's D-Pad similar to what the MadCatz Pad does for the X360.

Right now I am trying to make a circuit to "translate" the signals from an optical encoder to a mechanical one for my T2K optical rotary controller to remove the last bugs from it. If I can get this to work for T2K then it can also work for "Tempest" (XBL) using the MadCatz Pad as the base unit for the rotary controller to plug into. Then you can use something like a Slik-Stik (arcade style optical rotary encoder for "Tempest" cabinets or MAME) to play the XBL version.

Then all will be right with the world.

For future reference I recommend going after a Samsung 616-T DVD-ROM drive and modding it for Xbox use. Once properly modded this is by far THE best DVD-ROM drive to use and will avoid future headaches with the console.

I mentioned earlier about using PS2 style analog joysticks in the N64 controller. I found this topic over at GamesX where some have been working on doing just that.

However. it appears to be pretty technical and not "plug-and-play" at this point. But, still, it's pretty cool.

Looks like an iPhone for the visually impaired.....