Nintendo joystick pinouts?

[CraigsBar]

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Any thoughts on these being modifyable for Cpc use? I know autofire will almost certainly never work. But how similar are the specs of the nes and Cpc joystick ports.

Craig

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[TotO]

No. Buy the Sega Master System version instead.

[CraigsBar]

Perfect. Thanks will keep looking.

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[CraigsBar]

No. Buy the Sega Master System version instead.

OK that was a short sesrch, I have 2 new and unused (Boxed and shrinkwrapped) Master system Konix Speedking joysticks on their way to me. Looking at the pinout diagrams it seems that I only need to move fire 1 from pin 9 on the master system to pin 3 on the Amstrad. That shoudl be a nice easy mod.


However looking at the spec the master system has +5v on pin 5 (for the auto fire circuit) and this is not present on the CPC.


Logically therefore if I were to bridge internally from the +5v on the Analogue port to pin 5 on both joystick ports on the 6128 plus I should get autofire working on both ports correct? From what I can see on the board, pin 5 is not connected to any tracks and as such adding +5v to this pin should have no ill effects, other than providing a working Autofire 


If this is all that is needed then it is amazing that Amstrad never did this on the plus machines. a working Autofire added with 2 short pieces of wire would be have added very little to the machine cost yet been another improvement over the Classic model.


Kind Regards


Craig

[TotO]

I all cases, you need to build a little 9pin/9pin adapter to make the fire2 button working w/o destroying your Konix controller.
So, You can add on it a power jack to input the required +5V supply if you want to use the auto-fire.
(all that is easy to achieve and allow to keep the joystick safe)

[CraigsBar]

Well the Speedkings arrived. Unfortunately the Auto Fire on the Master System must work by Black Magic as the 5v pin is missing in the plug, therefore I did not mod the 6128 plus to provide it, there seemed to be little point. I guess the MS provides slightly more power over the U, D, L, R, F1 and F2 pins so that the Autofire can run without the 5v. I am not about to do any more modding, as I can live without autofiro.


Moved Fire 2 from Pin 9 to Pin 7 in a 9 pin dsub double ended hood.


Tested and all controls worl correctly


I made 2 adaptors (and ordered 2 Speedkings) unfortuately I cannot at present use them both at once as the Hoods are about 1mm to wide to plug into the side of the plus at the same time.


A Speedking and a GX4000 paddle is still a pretty good combo fpr 2 player pang.

[TotO]

Perfect, so!