And the wires and solderings would possibly be in the way for the conductive buttons. My idea was to connect the up-wire of the joystick to the up-button of the controller, down-wire to down-button etc. I realized I actually already had a device that converts the digital signals of antique joysticks to USB – my newly bought SNES controller. I also considered connecting two controllers and two joysticks with adapters, but that would fill up my desk space and all the Raspberry ports. And I wanted the SNES control to play old Nintendo games with the right feel. I didn’t want to loose the A/B/X/Y buttons that are more or less required to navigate in RetroPie. But I didn’t want to break my precious old Red Ball I found hidden away since long.Īnother solution is a joystick adapter from Retronic Design. A quality product, but not quite what I was looking for. I also found someone who had retrofitted a USB-connection to their old joystick. Not even AliExpress carried something similar (!). But it had been out of stock for years everywhere. The first thing I found was a remake of an old classic Amiga joystick with USB connection. Preferably a Red Ball! So I scoured the internet for solutions. Joystick Huntingīut… although it was fun to play old classics like Bubble Bobble on Amiga and Yie Ar Kung Fu on C64, you don’t get the right feel with a SNES controller. A mouse can come in handy as well, but you can do without it if you don’t want to play games where it’s needed (but who doesn’t want to play Defender of the Crown?).
I wanted to get started as quick as possible so I hooked up a keyboard and a modern version of a SNES controller ( this is what I bought from the Swedish store Kjell & Co). I followed the description on RetroPie’s site. And then this guide to get Amiberry/WHDLoad installed, which makes running Amiga games a breeze! No more fuzzing around with game-specific settings like Kickstart 1.2 or 1Mb fast mem. Most people who are using RetroPie seems to be in to Nintendo and arcade. Personally, I’m an Amiga fan, but also remember the good old glory days of the C64.
Though there is some extra work to get Amiga games up ‘n running.
HOW TO USE RETROPIE IN AV CABLE INSTALL
For those of us who are old retro game nostalgics, RetroPie is an amazing project! It’s very easy to install directly from an image and not too much configuration afterwards.
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