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Offline Digiman

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Re: Simple Genesis/Megadrive gamepad button jump mod.
« Reply #29 from previous page: September 18, 2012, 06:46:24 AM »
Using up for accelerate/jump on Amiga games is bad game design. Amiga has two fire button capability.
 

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Re: Simple Genesis/Megadrive gamepad button jump mod.
« Reply #30 on: September 18, 2012, 09:15:12 AM »
Yeah but sadly almost all joysticks you could buy had only one button... or they were all wired to the same pin, in any case.  Obviously it has the capability because the mouse has two buttons!

I wanted to mod a joystick to have two buttons once, only to realise that it didn't even have the corresponding pin in the plug.  The whole wire was missing from the lead.
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Re: Simple Genesis/Megadrive gamepad button jump mod.
« Reply #31 on: September 19, 2012, 03:54:58 AM »
When you check the schematics, you will notice that there is also a pin 5 on Amiga ports for a third button or middle mouse button.
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Re: Simple Genesis/Megadrive gamepad button jump mod.
« Reply #32 on: September 19, 2012, 09:34:44 AM »
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Re: Simple Genesis/Megadrive gamepad button jump mod.
« Reply #33 on: September 19, 2012, 10:04:32 AM »
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If you want to use PSX joypad as a mouse just get the PSX-Amiga converter from kipper2k http://kipper2k.com/amigaforsale/
Works great, just press "Select", mouse mode, press "Select" again, Joystick mode.

Thanks for this, been looking for ages to get another PSX-DB9 adapter for my A1200 =) .
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Re: Simple Genesis/Megadrive gamepad button jump mod.
« Reply #34 on: September 19, 2012, 10:09:54 AM »
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When you check the schematics, you will notice that there is also a pin 5 on Amiga ports for a third button or middle mouse button.

Indeed.  The interesting thing about buttons 2 & 3 is that these pins are writable as well as readable, so they can be used for multiplexing to give you even more buttons.  Presumably this is how the CD32 pad works.  The Sega Megadrive pads also work this way, but unfortunately they use pin 7 as the select line, which on the Amiga is +5V.  On the Sega pads, +5V is on pin 5.  So if you swapped pins 5 & 7 in theory you could use all of the buttons.  But it doesn't work the same way as the CD32 pad, which apparently has some sort of state machine inside it.

I have wanted to make myself an adapter for some time to get the use of those extra buttons.  Having only one button to play with is really frustrating from a game design point of view.  (It's one reason Mr Beanbag's only move is jump!)
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Re: Simple Genesis/Megadrive gamepad button jump mod.
« Reply #35 on: September 19, 2012, 12:31:21 PM »
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