SNES gamepad on LPT??

SNES gamepad on LPT??

Tobias Dammers

Member #2,604

August 2002

I stumbled across something in the allegro docs that made me curious:
The DOS specific joystick drivers mention one for SNES gamepad connected to LPTx:, but nowhere did I find info on how to actually connect them. I still have an SNES console, but I'd like to know how to get that gamepad connected to LPT1, physically, that is.
And maybe there would even be a win32 driver for that?

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Derezo

Member #1,666

April 2001

I'm really not entirely sure, but I think they were refering to the PC rendition of the SNES Pad.. (Cuz I think it's called a SNES Pad still, isn't it?)

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spellcaster

Member #1,493

September 2001

Ok, I typed these terms into google, followed the first link and found it...

[url http://www.google.com/search?q=snes+pc+connect+lpt]

What kind of search did you do? I mean... snes,pc,connect and lpt seem to be the obvious search terms..

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Tobias Dammers

Member #2,604

August 2002

Once again, being too lazy should be punished (or at least automatically cause physical pain). bumps head against wall

Thanks anyway for showing me the obvious...

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PyroBoy

Member #725

October 2000

With Linux you can connect alot of old Joy Sticks/Pads(COMADOR 64, NES, SNES, SEGA ..., PSX, N64...). You need to make a cable to conect to the pad and the port your going to use... and maybe add a power suply if the one coming from the port isnt anoth. Look in the Joystick section of a Linux kernel docs(they come with the kernel) it should tell you more.

I dont know how allegro hanndels this on your platform though or even if it dose anymore.

Matthew Leverton

Supreme Loser

January 1999

I've got a parallel port adapter for the SNES pad. It lets me connect two pads to a single parallel port. There are windows-based drivers, so it works wonderfully a standard DirectInput (?) device with Allegro.

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