Trying to build a Twin Stick EX clone. Could use some info.
Posted: 19 Apr 2015, 18:44
So, I'll start off with the truth; I'm not a huge VO fan but I do love Sega arcade games, I just lean more towards Daytona USA. Anyway, me and a friend recently overhauled some fighting sticks and we were looking into doing a more advanced project. We came across a Saturn Twin Stick and a beat up and broken HRAP v3 at a game store. Snapped them up and we're plotting tings by padhacking a 360 wired pad for the 'brains'.
Firstly, looking at other projects it seems that no one else has tried to construct a twin stick that didn't just map the joysticks to digital, like the D-Pad and ABXY. The Hori Twin Stick EX seems to operate both analog sticks as digital 8 way joysticks even if the system thinks they're analog sticks. We're interested in going this route for the challenge and the circuit design we came up with doesn't seem too complicated though we'll have to swap the two terminal microswitches for three terminal microswitches. But has anyone else ever attempted this?
Secondly, does anyone out there who owns the Hori Twin Stick EX know what it actually identifies to Windows as? In Microsoft's XInput there are various subtypes for controllers, pad, arcade stick, arcade pad, dance pad, guitars, ect, but nothing specific for a Twin Stick. My going guess is that the Twin Stick EX identifies itself a gamepad and if not, an arcade pad (Because they have analog sticks, where an arcade stick subtype is digital only) I'd love it if someone had that info.
Thirdly, anyone know what kind of place I should look up to get a custom faceplate cut up for the HRAP to accommodate the controls?
Firstly, looking at other projects it seems that no one else has tried to construct a twin stick that didn't just map the joysticks to digital, like the D-Pad and ABXY. The Hori Twin Stick EX seems to operate both analog sticks as digital 8 way joysticks even if the system thinks they're analog sticks. We're interested in going this route for the challenge and the circuit design we came up with doesn't seem too complicated though we'll have to swap the two terminal microswitches for three terminal microswitches. But has anyone else ever attempted this?
Secondly, does anyone out there who owns the Hori Twin Stick EX know what it actually identifies to Windows as? In Microsoft's XInput there are various subtypes for controllers, pad, arcade stick, arcade pad, dance pad, guitars, ect, but nothing specific for a Twin Stick. My going guess is that the Twin Stick EX identifies itself a gamepad and if not, an arcade pad (Because they have analog sticks, where an arcade stick subtype is digital only) I'd love it if someone had that info.
Thirdly, anyone know what kind of place I should look up to get a custom faceplate cut up for the HRAP to accommodate the controls?