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Hello all! I'm in the mood to hack apart an old PS2 (or PS1) pad to make a Saturn adapter for the Playstation. The Saturn model 2 pad is hailed by many as the best sh'mup pad of all time and using it on the Playstation would kick ass (PS2 Saturn Pads are too hard to come by...).
I plan to hack apart a Saturn extension cable and an old Playstation controller. I figure if I match up the leads, I should be able to do it without destroying a perfectly good Saturn controller. I don't really care for analog control (the 3D pad is.... decent... but I think the dual shock is better for 3D), really just making this for MvC and a few others. I plan to keep the select button on the Playstation pad I will be hacking apart, just in case, but all other buttons will be sole property of the Saturn Pad.
Here is the mapping I'm going for:
Playstation --- Saturn
X--------A
O--------B
R1-------C
[_] --------X
^--------Y
L1--------Z
L2-------- L
R2-------- R
Start------Start
D-Pad------- D-Pad
Select-------(nothing)
So, you know, pretty much just like the PS2 Saturn Pad, only with the Select button left on the "adapter." Here is an AWESOME Paint mock-up of what I'm talking about:
Now I'm sure I'm not the only one who has thought of this, so surely someone has done a pin-out. It would save me a boatload of time. I will take the wires from the extension cable and solder them to contacts on the hacked-apart Playstation controller, hopefully successfully making an adapter, and of course leaving the select button in place on the adapter, rather than ousting it entirely.
Anyone got anything?
