Posted By
GeTE
on 2023-08-10
12:27:11
|  Re: NES-style Gamepad for the 264 made by AutumnHippo
I am hard working to get all my retro ideas out of my head by writing them down in this forum to see the reactions. Later. Now the weather will become better and I need the feedback on decals when autumn falls (for AutumnHippo  ).
Well, but what do you think about the SNES-controller? The 8-Bit Guy chose it for Attack of the PETSCII-Robots and for his Commander X16. For him it is the next generation controller on retro systems and I start to beliebe him. The upcoming controller from Protovision might have the same dimensions and buttons.
Therefore I thought about what would be the equivalented joystick for our 264 systems to the one Protovision builds. Let me describe what I mean (and then I should leave the computer to do something usefull ...). Perhapbs you might think that it's easy.
First of all, controllers like the one from RetroGameBoyz for the C64 and the one from AutumnHippo are made to use two controllers to play together, but normally we sit down alone in front of our plus/4 and for this situation we need a controller. To begin, there should be one plug to fit both joystick-ports. Now I can only find the joystick adapter (https://idoregesz.hu/product/db9-joystick-converter-for-c16-and-plus-4/) and one harness that has the plugs directly soldered on the PCB. It's great this way, but I remember a third one with the plugs not on the PCB but on the edge of it. That would be even better, because you can create the PCB to right fit into one small, black standard box.
Than there was the idea of a joystick switch that can switch one joystick between both plugs (https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/51284-c16-joystick-adapter/&postID=765520#post765520). This should be integrated into a SNES-controller-replacement-PCB.
But how that black SNES-controller with the boxed two-plugged plug should work like? Let me tell you. First of all, SELECT and START won't be buttons. The first one should have a LED to show the mode and the second one will have a switch between I and II.
In mode I the steering cross operates as joystick 1 and the fire button for joystick 1 is mapped on the red button. The blue button operates as joystick fire 2, green is joystick 2 down, yellow joystick 2 up, the left shoulder button joystick 2 left and the right shoulder button joystick 2 right. When using the switch, installed in START all those buttons switch between joystick 1 and 2 and the LED on SELECT changes it's colour.
This would be a great and professional gamepad to test out games on plus/4 alone and it will look professional because SNES-controller-housings in black and small black plastic boxes to install the PCB with the dual-plug in, can be optained relatively cheap. Otherwise such a controller might become standard for new upcoming games that need more than one fire button without the need of such adpaters the 8-Bit Guy designed for the user-port (not to be able to use on C16 and 116 either).
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