Simple Atari-Style Joystick to Creativision adaptor
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 6:02 pm
This is a schematic for a simple plugin cable to connect standard (Atari-style) Joysticks to the Creativision...
The topic has been allready discussed in other posts in this forum, so thanks to all members who participated...
The CV Joysticks and Keys often fail and without them you can play no game :0(
This simple cables can give you basic gameplay functionality, or act as an additional Joystickport (if you hook them up in parallel to the CV controllers)
UPs:
Connect and play with your favourite joystick (Atari, Competition Pro, Quickshot...)
Replace a missing or defect CV Controller (at least for basic gameplay)
Simple to build, no need to open or mod the console
Preserve your original CV controllers and spare them the mileage ;0)
DOWNs:
Most likely only 4 directions are supported (UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT) and i guess no diagonals, that may depend on how the portbits are interpreted by the game... (Original CV Controllers offer 16 distinguishable ways... if and how they are used internaly and in the programming is another topic ;0))
Only one firebutton (a few CV games need two)
In the schematics you also find an optional 2 pole push button (maybe even 2 single pole push buttons may work, if you press them simultaneously) to simulate a "Start Game" keystroke ("6", "7", "B" or "N" start a game) for most of the CV games... if you have at least one of these buttons working ("7" or "N" would be great) you could simply replace the left joystick and use the StartGame buttons on the right CV controller.
Cheers, TOM:0)
The topic has been allready discussed in other posts in this forum, so thanks to all members who participated...
The CV Joysticks and Keys often fail and without them you can play no game :0(
This simple cables can give you basic gameplay functionality, or act as an additional Joystickport (if you hook them up in parallel to the CV controllers)
UPs:
Connect and play with your favourite joystick (Atari, Competition Pro, Quickshot...)
Replace a missing or defect CV Controller (at least for basic gameplay)
Simple to build, no need to open or mod the console
Preserve your original CV controllers and spare them the mileage ;0)
DOWNs:
Most likely only 4 directions are supported (UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT) and i guess no diagonals, that may depend on how the portbits are interpreted by the game... (Original CV Controllers offer 16 distinguishable ways... if and how they are used internaly and in the programming is another topic ;0))
Only one firebutton (a few CV games need two)
In the schematics you also find an optional 2 pole push button (maybe even 2 single pole push buttons may work, if you press them simultaneously) to simulate a "Start Game" keystroke ("6", "7", "B" or "N" start a game) for most of the CV games... if you have at least one of these buttons working ("7" or "N" would be great) you could simply replace the left joystick and use the StartGame buttons on the right CV controller.
Cheers, TOM:0)