Best controller options for Virtual Boy emulation.

I am using a Xbox 360 Wireless Pad for Windows + XPadder to map the buttons. Works great! I can use the two sticks to emulate both DPads if needed.

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I’m “oldskool”, so I use an unmodded pad with an adapter I made (out of an NES controller socket) connected to a parallel port. It’s directly supported by the PPJOY driver.

KR155E wrote:
I am using a Xbox 360 Wireless Pad for Windows + XPadder to map the buttons. Works great! I can use the two sticks to emulate both DPads if needed.

P.S. Please use the image attachment function of the forum instead of hotlinking.

Similarly to this, a PS2 or PS3 controller works quite well, too.

svenk91 wrote:

RunnerPack wrote:
an adapter I made (out of an NES controller socket)

Can you post or link to schematics you used?

http://goliathindustries.com/vb/VBDiagrams.html

I’m using the Raphnet universal adapter that I built, with the custom firmware that supports VB controllers (I posted about it a couple weeks back right here.) It feels great using a real VB controller.

Actually, since the design is completely open sourced, I built the adapter from scratch using through hole parts on stripboard. If you already have the tools, the parts cost is under $10. As far as flashing, if you don’t need anything fancy you can flash AVRs with a parallel port cable (called dapa), which is just a DB25 and some wire connected to the right pins. It’s not the safest thing, but when I first started using AVRs, I used a dapa cable. This is the instructable that got me started. Now I use a USBTinyISP that I bought off eBay for $15. (link) It’s a nice little programmer and works great with avrdude. Hope this helps!

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