Today's tip: $4.55 joypads

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Ah OK. Their image must be wrong as the enlarged sample picture doesn't show a DB9 that I've ever seen

Look at the plug sideways, and it will look exactly like it does in that photo. It's just a DB9 plug on its side.

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Oh yeah, and we should clear this up for sure.

2-button Sega Master System, 3-button and 6-button Sega MegaDrive/Genesis pads all work on Amigas for any game that supports controllers with one or two buttons. If you try to use a Sega pad in a game that needs a CD32 pad, button 1/B will act as the Red button, but button 2/C activates every button on the CD32 pad at once, including the Play/Pause button, which often causes the game to pause every time you press button 2/C.

You don't need to modify a Sega pad for it to work perfectly with all 1 and 2 button games. You can't modify them to act as CD32 pads unfortunately, but if you're handy with a soldering iron you can add a modification to make the A button on a MegaDrive/Genesis pad act as the UP direction. This makes them incredibly handy for playing platform games that use UP to jump, and racing games that use UP to accelerate.

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Thanks ChaosLord. I also have been using Sega pads on several Amigas with 2-button games my whole life, and still do, and just tested a Sega Master System 2-button, Sega Mega Drive 3 and 6 button controllers, and as I expected, as always, they worked fine!

And today I realised this Deal Extreme place delivers for free to Australia, so that's a sweet price for a bunch of replacement pads for my Amigas and Segas!