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Re: USB Playstation Adapter for Amiga
« on: November 16, 2002, 10:49:39 PM »
I don't know about the USB solution, but currently I'm using a parallel port adaptor right now for a playstation pad. It's called a PSXPort and you can still get them from Amiga hardware retailers.
 

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Re: USB Playstation Adapter for Amiga
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2002, 01:45:39 AM »
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Yes the current ones are all well and good, but a USB solution would be better.


Maybe, if you have a parallel printer and don't want to need a switchbox, and USB also provides enough power for a multitap. There's not much difference apart from that, except that psxport exists, USB adaptors don't (at the moment).

But the big problem in both cases is that 98% of Amiga programs bang the hardware when using joysticks so these solutions wont work anyway. Even PSXPort needs to run a patch on lowlevel.lib to work with progs that support it, if its psxport.device isn't used directly. All WHDLoad games and almost all older games can't use the psx joypad. :-(