SNES to PC

TheDean · 20 Feb 2007 at 23:25

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a SNES controller which is compatible with the pc? I think it may have to be a converter of some kind - Any ideas people?

Cheers

SkeeterUK · 20 Feb 2007 at 23:46

Lol. There are plenty that have almost same shape, layout and button config. There about a fiver. Just get one of them.

FrenchTart · 20 Feb 2007 at 23:48

They usually feel much worse than the proper pads.

Get a super joy converter or lookup the snes pad > parallel port conversion that's online somewhere

Mobius 1 · 21 Feb 2007 at 08:57

use an xb360 pad, they are much more comfortable, unless you are seriously looking for authenticity?

Stelly · 21 Feb 2007 at 09:17

-Tauren- said:
use an xb360 pad, they are much more comfortable, unless you are seriously looking for authenticity?

That pad rocks!

Stelly

Mobius 1 · 21 Feb 2007 at 09:44

Stelly said:
That pad rocks!

Stelly

Amen brudda :cool:

TheDean · 21 Feb 2007 at 10:01

-Tauren- said:
use an xb360 pad, they are much more comfortable, unless you are seriously looking for authenticity?

Yeah - You could be onto a winner there like....

Mobius 1 · 21 Feb 2007 at 10:10

TheDean said:
Yeah - You could be onto a winner there like....

was that sarcasm? :eek:

bledd · 21 Feb 2007 at 14:24

playstation 1 pad is a good 'upgrade' for playing snes games

james.miller · 21 Feb 2007 at 14:26

nooooo way. the dpad is horrendous, makes it very hard for playing beat-em-ups

FrenchTart · 21 Feb 2007 at 14:40

The 360 pad is decent enough for analogue use but yeah..the dpad is awful. Makes SNES gaming somewhat annoying

I'd go for a ps2 pad > usb converter. The dpads on those are decent and it's got enough buttons to play like a snes pad whilst also having bits left over for emu controls.

bledd · 21 Feb 2007 at 14:51

james.miller said:
nooooo way. the dpad is horrendous, makes it very hard for playing beat-em-ups

ps pads have my fav dpad ever, each to his own i guess

FrenchTart · 21 Feb 2007 at 14:58

Ah. Same here - I thought he was talking about the xbox dpad

Chaos · 21 Feb 2007 at 17:19

If your feeling adventurous you could try and make one

http://ian-albert.com/misc/snescontroller.php

james.miller · 21 Feb 2007 at 18:14

no i was talking about the ps pad. its very hard to play beat em up's wityh that pad because of the motions for the moves. they are awful

"andy" · 21 Feb 2007 at 18:41

-Tauren- said:
use an xb360 pad, they are much more comfortable, unless you are seriously looking for authenticity?

*** do the job if it didnt have a d pad that feels like it belongs in the stone age

the convertors to turn snes - parallel part are a bit dodgy too as allot of people dont have parallel ports these days

the ones mentioned in the first reply are best bet , probably about a quid or two on ebay

Rincewind · 21 Feb 2007 at 19:36

depends how desperate you are... http://www.retrousb.com/usb.html

~>Dg<~ · 21 Feb 2007 at 19:55

ps1 came from snes was gunna be add on cd drive but they went diff ways ps1 born.

FrenchTart · 21 Feb 2007 at 20:31

That's utterly untrue /re the PS1....

JaFFa · 21 Feb 2007 at 22:24

Aekeron said:
That's utterly untrue /re the PS1....

its not untrue. look it up, sony wanted the rights to the media so nintendo blind sided them and went to phillips (iirc). Sony in a wave of japanese honor went out and made a full console from the research they had been doing. It was even originally callled the playstation.