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Maeloko
03-17-2010, 08:56 PM
Hopefully the picture turns up, best I could do with just my blackberry. I had some spare time the other day so I took the thumbstick from a broken 360 controller and swapped out a wireless arcade controller's dpad with it. The final product is grand, plays very smooth and comfortably.

Initially I tried the thumbstick from a playstation dual shock controller, but I highly prefer the dip vs arch, I find your thumb slides less and the play is better centralized.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1246/sega.jpg (http://img87.imageshack.us/i/sega.jpg/)
Elliotw2
03-17-2010, 08:57 PM
That looks interesting, though wouldn't the direct mapping of digital to analog make the joystick kinda finicky?
XeroShinobi
03-18-2010, 12:10 AM
That's pretty neat if it works without any problems, but in my opinion using an analog to play 2D games made for use with a d-pad is just wrong.

I actually bought an additional pad for my 360 just so I would have a decent d-pad to play XBLA because the the 360 controller's d-pad is a steaming pile of Malamute feces.
ApolloBoy
03-18-2010, 01:34 AM
I think what he did was just take the thumbstick and mounted inside the controller; there's no way you could take the entire analog stick and make it work in the confines of a 6-button controller.
nathanallan
03-18-2010, 02:33 AM
That's a very interesting mod. And he *did* say he just used the thumbstick, right on, the entire analog thing wouldn't fit inside without major cutting.

Nice.
QuickSciFi
03-18-2010, 06:46 AM
I'm just interested about the look of this controller before it actually was modded. That "1/2" clippy thingy at the bottom has really caught my eye.
N.Saibot
03-18-2010, 09:37 AM
I'm just interested about the look of this controller before it actually was modded. That "1/2" clippy thingy at the bottom has really caught my eye.

That's the infrared wireless controller ; ) This thingy at the bottom
is for switching between 1st player and 2nd player (the receive
unit plugs in into both ports, so there has to be a way to tell the
system, which port the controller should adress).
It looks simply as a 6-button controller, save for the obvious differences
like slightly different form, switch on the bottom and start button is not
in the middle and is grey. D-pads are identical as far I know.