X-Arcade on Amiga?

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PSX64/Shredz64 adapters are completely crap compared to a real Playstation to AMIGA CD32 ADAPTER. Why are you all trying so hard to come up with the solution when it's already been pointed out in leirbag28's post way up the top of this thread?

Do you only want to be able to use one or two buttons, or do you want to be able to use SEVEN (six plus the Play/Start button)? There are adapters that remap every one of the Playstations buttons and analogue control sticks to Amiga CD32 buttons and mouse movements. Forget those adapters that are designed for other systems, you're just limiting yourself!

Get a real Playstation-to-CD32 adapter and solve all the problems you'll ever have for playing native games on any Amiga. These things plug into the standard DB9 joystick ports, just in case anyone was still thinking of the ancient parallel adapters that came out in the 90s and were only supported by a few Amiga games.

And for those people who probably still don't understand, YES you can use a CD32 controller in an Amiga that isn't a CD32. This means any Playstation/Playstation2 compatible joystick/controlpad/steeringwheel/mouse/guitar will work on any classic Amiga with a joystick or mouse port on it.

You can see these adapters in action here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apd_H6gcgAs&feature=channel_page

You can also contact Paul on YouTube and ask if he can make an adapter for you. We're currently in the process of trying to arange a bulk lot of these adapters to be manufactured so anyone can readily buy them and use any PS2 controller on their Amigas.

I'd also like to point out to anyone looking for one, that you can get far cheaper arcade style joysticks than the X-Arcade that are still high quality (I don't mean the cheap plastic ones), so the X-Arcade isn't the ONLY option for decent quality arcade joysticks these days, it's just the one that's been marketed to you best.

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Megaboz, I apologise if my post seemed harsh, my intention wasn't to disrespect you or your adapter, which I'm sure does its job perfectly. I just felt that it needed to be pointed out that a much more suitable solution had already been mentioned. I feel bad for using the word "crap", I was just annoyed by how everyone ignored a post about an adapter that has been specifically designed for making use of all the features of the Playstation pad for any Amiga game, with mouse support, guitar support, dance mat, everything.

Personally I prefer to use all available buttons for my games. My first Amiga was the CD32, so I've always been used to having 6 control buttons and a Pause/Play button to use in my games. When I play games like Fightin' Spirit or Super Street Fighter II, I need those extra punch and kick buttons, so naturally an adapter that was designed to support these extra buttons for this system seems like the ideal option since there are all those extra buttons on the X-Arcade.

I believe the PSX64 is still a marvellous little adapter, and Shredz64 looks like an awesome game. I'm sure if anyone wanted to play Shredz, any C64 game, or any classic Amiga game that only requires 1-2 buttons then the PSX64 should do the job just fine.