Thread: Any adivce for driver development?

I've got a personal project I'm trying to complete. And what it involves is taking and old Sega Konami Gun Control pad, converting to a com device and then developing a driver for it.

Basicly I plan on splicing the wire and removing the sega plug and replacing it with a usb or com port plug. After wards, I need to try and develop a driver for the device to handle input. I guess my questions and need for advice involve these questions -

Is it feasable to take some old console controller and convert it to usb by simply splicing the wires?


How can I develop a driver for a completly unknown device. Is there a way to poll a usb connection for any kind of signal or connection being sent? Then just develop some drivers to test that information?


Thanks for serious replys in advance.

No, it's not possible to make an USB device like that.

If I were you, I'd try to connect the game pad to the parallel or perhaps the serial port. They are simpler and it might work.

Please note that I don't know much about the subject, but I do know that SNES controllers can be connected to the paralell port.

Originally Posted by Sang-drax

No, it's not possible to make an USB device like that.

If I were you, I'd try to connect the game pad to the parallel or perhaps the serial port. They are simpler and it might work.

Please note that I don't know much about the subject, but I do know that SNES controllers can be connected to the paralell port.

Yeah, I kinda doubted it would work for a usb connection - but a com port should work.

I found this link, you might want to look at it:
http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse...threadid=13808