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Post by 50tbrd on May 15, 2014 14:06:58 GMT -5
gliptitude aught to be able to appreciate this. An adapter that makes it so you can use you standard Vectrex controller upside down for left handed people or people so inclined. It switches the button orientation around and reverses the x axis and the y axis. No modification to your controller. www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10100150956145102Sorry about the quality. I'm not good with a camera. Also, sorry about my cat. He wants to be a celebrity so badly.
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Post by gliptitude on May 15, 2014 14:36:51 GMT -5
Hey cool. Did you make this box? Does it do other things? Or could it be made to do other things?
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Post by 50tbrd on May 15, 2014 14:41:05 GMT -5
I made it. What else do you want it to do?
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Post by gliptitude on May 15, 2014 15:26:17 GMT -5
A variety of button mapping changes. That's pretty much what the device is doing right? .. Would be real useful if it had some configuration switches on it, to customize buttons.
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Post by 50tbrd on May 15, 2014 15:55:09 GMT -5
This is just a simple pass through device which alters the buttons and joystick to a pre-determined setting. Making it variable button mapping complicates things. In this application, pins 1/4, 2/3 and 7/9 have been swapped. This is something that the average person could probably do.
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Post by gliptitude on May 16, 2014 12:55:17 GMT -5
Cool. ..Could you post pics of the internals?
.. Could something as simple as this be used to adapt controllers from particular other consoles to work on Vectrex?
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Post by VectorX on May 16, 2014 13:09:11 GMT -5
^ kokovec could probably chime in on some of that, since he got a PS2 Mouse to work for the Vectrex. |
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Post by 50tbrd on May 16, 2014 14:47:26 GMT -5
I've been working on that solution. For games that require an analog joystick, I haven't found an external solution. For games that only require the use of the 4 buttons, it's definitely possible.
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Post by kokovec on May 18, 2014 13:18:41 GMT -5
The PS2/Gamecube controller I built a few years ago was able to reverse evrthing for a left handed player.
Makes me curious... how many left handed Vectrex players are there out there?
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Post by 50tbrd on May 18, 2014 17:44:52 GMT -5
The PS2/Gamecube controller I built a few years ago was able to reverse evrthing for a left handed player. Makes me curious... how many left handed Vectrex players are there out there? According to this, only 15 percent of people are left handed and supposedly they are better at processing stimuli which makes them better at gaming. |
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Post by VectorX on May 18, 2014 19:38:28 GMT -5
I wonder if that's actually true? Because it was said for years that the right part of the brain controls the left part of the body, and the left part controls the right part of the body. Big crock of crap that turned out to be.
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Post by gliptitude on May 20, 2014 18:21:04 GMT -5
.. If we are just talking about games with digital controls, could your same method be used to adapt a game like War of the Worlds to use buttons one and two rather than the stick, to move left and right?
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Post by 50tbrd on May 21, 2014 0:36:46 GMT -5
I think when controls are designed to be digital for a game that the system just takes the analog signal and reads it like it was a digital signal. You can hook buttons up to operate as left or right which is what the Starblast controllers do but it takes all the same work as hooking up a digital joystick.
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Post by 50tbrd on Nov 1, 2015 10:50:12 GMT -5
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Post by VECTREXER on Nov 2, 2015 15:08:15 GMT -5
Thanks Tony. I know my gauche sister will appreciate that kind of adapter.
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