Famicom -> USB

[Lord_Santa]

question

I have a place in town where I can purchase a 9-pin Famicom to USB converter
on that note, I have no interest in Famicom controllers

but would it be possible to use a C-64/Amiga/Atari joystick through this port?
'tis the same kind of port, but it's two very different kinds of controllers

[CRTGAMER]

No luck, Famicom is a 15 pin. You could make an adaptor cable, C64 is all digital.

http://www.gamesx.com/controldata/nessnes.htm

[Lord_Santa]

No luck, Famicom is a 15 pin. You could make an adaptor cable, C64 is all digital.

http://www.gamesx.com/controldata/nessnes.htm

oh?
the store told me the Famicom was 9-pin

oh well... thanks for the heads up

[burn_654]

It could be for pirate famiclone controllers imo, as most I've dealt with have been nine-pin. Not that there's many worth converting to usb though. You could always make an adapter as mentioned, I'm sure there's famiclone pinouts out there. With a properly wired adapter it could probably use Nes or legit Famicom accessories but that's extra work.

[Anapan]

There's one here that should do everything you mentioned except Famicom. Since you said you didn't care about them...
http://www.raphnet-tech.com/products/atari2usb/
Raphael's products are well made.

It's relatively easy and cheap to made an adapter to connect those types of controllers to a parallel printer port.