Advice on whether these are decent brains?

[Bunford]

Just found these on eBay:

2 x USB 2.0 Game Controllers

They seem like a bargain price. Also, from looking at the pic, it looks like there 1 USB 2.0 connection and the 2 pads are actually daisy chained already.

Would these therefore be a decent investment as the brains for a mod controller?

[extraclassic]

Nothing wrong with them as long as you only want buttons (no analog)

[Buffalo Ill]

What about if you had 2xPS2/2xUSB Dualshock controllers? How many analogue (pots/faders) could you have then?

I'm considering making a controller with a 4x4 grid of arcade buttons, so the USB controllers could handle that, but I'd like to add in faders and knobs if possible...

2 controllers would give 24 buttons, so I could have my 4x4 grid with some buttons left over for navigation...

4x4 Grid
8 additional buttons
4 analogues (2 faders & 2 knobs)

Sounds like a mean-ass controller for the cost of 2 joypads!

[extraclassic]

Bunford if you only want buttons then here's a very cheap option.
Second item on the list = £1 plus free delivery :eek:

http://uk.webuy.com/search/index.php..._which_stock=2

Milo brought these to my attention in this thread

http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15676

[extraclassic]

What about if you had 2xPS2/2xUSB Dualshock controllers? How many analogue (pots/faders) could you have then?

I'm considering making a controller with a 4x4 grid of arcade buttons, so the USB controllers could handle that, but I'd like to add in faders and knobs if possible...

2 controllers would give 24 buttons, so I could have my 4x4 grid with some buttons left over for navigation...

4x4 Grid
8 additional buttons
4 analogues (2 faders & 2 knobs)

Can't see why 2 double gamepad's wouldnt work. Sometimes you just have to dive in and have a go (It's the best way to learn things)

If you only want 24 buttons, 2 pots and 2 sliders you will be able to do that with 1 double gamepad

Sounds like a mean-ass controller for the cost of 2 joypads!

The gamepads are cheap enough online but trust me that price will soon shoot up and up when you start adding arcade buttons, pot's and sliders plus delivery charges.

[Bunford]

Bunford if you only want buttons then here's a very cheap option.
Second item on the list = £1 plus free delivery :eek:

http://uk.webuy.com/search/index.php..._which_stock=2

Milo brought these to my attention in this thread

http://www.djtechtools.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15676

I actually have a set of them that are unused in my house! I did assess them last night. However, my laptop initially recognised them as Logitech controllers, but then failed to get any drivers for them.

How would I get them to work on my Windows laptop as MiL0's thread says Windows picked his up.

I also have a set of Scene It Xbox 360 infrared wireless controllers, but Windows doesn't seem to pick them up either!?

Also, there's 5 buttons per controller = 20 buttons between them.

[extraclassic]

Sorry can't help you with the driver problem - just have to wait untill Milo chimes in.

[Bunford]

For anyone interested, I got confirmation off the eBay seller that there is just the 1 USB connector and the 2 pads are already daisy chained.

Therefore, open them up, take out and de-solder the existing buttons and you have a 28 button brain consisting of 2 gamepads daisy chained ready to go as far as I can see with a USB 2.0 plug and play connector for Windows ready too.

[MiL0]

I plugged 'em in and they worked straight away... unfortunately, I can't remember if it was with XP or Win7... possibly it was XP?