Control Box Help

Katouu · Basic Member Joined: 29 Aug 2006

Hello, i've had a modded TX-1000 for over a year now and I've been using a 15-pin male control box to the PS2, i wanted to play stepmania so I bought a control box 3-in-1 but once i connected everything together, it would regester none but 1 button from the whole pad. Perhaps compatibility issues? The thing is I cut thru the controllers and tried matching the wires from the old controller box to the new one and it doesn't work, also tried grabbing a USB cord and matching the wires with the old controller box, which was probably a waste of time, and failed as well. Is there anyway to make my old TX-1000 control box be USB compatible? Would it be recommendable to buy a ps2 to USB converter if the wiring doesnt work otherwise? let me know your opinions.. I really need help connecting the pad to the computer, help will be much appreciated, thanks in advance.

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ChilliumBromide · Trick Member Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Location: Beaverton, OR

If you want to make your own control box (and it sounds like you're perfectly competent), you could get a cheap standalone USB num pad and solder the wires from a 15-pin port to 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9, respectively to the corresponding possitions of the arrows on the pad. Then, you could get a selection button, deselection button, and two selection arrow buttons, and wire those to enter, Del, 1, and 3, respectively, and you'd have a good USB arcade-style control box.

Or, just buy an EMS USB2 gun adaptor. Those work pretty well. They have a slight lag with tx-1000's though, in my experience.
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