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Post by CDinteresting » Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:56 pm

Hi all!

So, now that I'm getting a new CDi (my old gave it's last breath this morning)
I was wondering who here made his CDi gamepad (the one with the 3 buttons on the right) a little bit stronger.
As you might know, there are certain CDi games that require some...strength and persistency in pushing your controller for desired effect :lol:
I happen to own a lot of these games and that has cost me quite some controllers, so I was thinking...why not take the inside of an (old, not good working) controller/gamepad and give it a (S)NES housing...
That way you get your CDi gameplay with the strength of a (S)NES controller!

Only problem:

-CDi gamepads have different shapes (the printboard and buttonlocation) than other controllers
-I'm not a pro in making my own prinboards...

So has anyone done this before?
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Post by Bas » Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:50 pm

apparently it has been done before ;)

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Post by CDinteresting » Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:24 pm

Thanks and thanks!

That was also my main problem, getting the CDI buttons on the SNES/NES/etc controller locations...

It's not a superdescription (don't know which wire goes where) but I'll try it
I still have an old gamepad (the rubber parts that connect the buttons to their electronic switches are gone:p) and will try this, only downside is, I don't have any other controllers that I don't use anymore...idea's?
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Post by Shroo-man » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:34 am

There is an easier option. you can buy an adapter for genesis and mega drive controllers to work on CD-i. and use a mega drive/genesis arcade controller or even just a regular gamepad should even be tough enough for CD-i gaming
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Post by CDinteresting » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:16 pm

Hey!

Since I have an old Gamecube gamepad (I have 6 of them:P don't ask...)
and those things have + pads and buttons too, I figured I'd try modding a CDi pad and a GC pad...

Too bad I can't find any good walkthroughs on how to do this.
The only problem I'm having is:

What wires/paths does every button take?

Every button (on the CDI) has at least 2 paths + one to a large field (probably electricity? I dunno, never been that good at electronics...)
It gets even stranger, since the GC doesn't have the "large electricity field" on it's gamepad...

So, I will start making this thing as soon as I find out what each path is...

help is appreciated;)
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