cracksolth left a few comments on the page for my Saturn to 360 adapter, as a result I started looking back into it. I contacted the guys from Acid mods (great guys BTW) to see if they were doing anything different that would help me streamline the design. In terms of communicating with the older “Matrix” style 360 controllers I didn’t really learn much that I hadn’t already discovered; however I did learn that the newer Common Ground style controllers are getting easier to find by the day and that most of the new colored controllers all use that style of innards.
They even supplied me with this handy graphic to determine the difference between a Matrix and a CG controller without having to crack it open.
As a result I’ve decided to abandon the Matrix style controllers for the time being and just track down a CG style controller to work with since that will allow me to dramatically reduce the pin count.
I’m going to do some playing around and if I like the results I might re-open this project…
My goals this time is to get it to a point of making a “kit” or perhaps even making it easy enough that I can lower the costs involved as well as the ease of install so that more people can get their hands on this. If this is something you’ve been waiting for then you’ve only got cracksolth to thank.
Shoot me an email or post a comment if you have ideas for features you’d like to see.
I’m really excited about the possiblities here, as I’m not exactly good at putting one together myself. Considering the amount of people paying $100 for Hori EX Turbo controllers (not the stick, the actual gamepad), I think there’s definitely a market for this.
If you could get your costs down and sell it at a good price, I’m willing to bet it could be worth your while financially.
I’m really hoping more comes of it
well i made a little bit of progress… but I’ve been extremely busy with several other big projects (most of which you could probably glean from the other posts here) but I’m moving forward with what is at least a slightly updated version of the prototype I had in my video demo. I think I’ve got a way to contain it completely within a controller. If I figure it out I’m going to build one or two and throw them on eBay to see how they do then decide where to go from there.
i know you’re busy with other projects but how is this progressing? anything newsworthy yet?
no newsworthy progress yet. But I do have things mostly planned out and a controller disassembled and waiting to be hacked.
I don’t know how much of a “kit” I’ll be able to make but I am planning on selling this adapter on eBay once I’m done as a one time thing. Even if I get it done sooner it wont sell it until January just because I don’t want it to get lost in all the holiday BS.
might find some geeks with holiday money in their pockets too
well, i’ll be checking back here for news so don’t be afraid to show a few teasers every once in awhile!