PS2 controller on Saturn

[Geoff D]

I want to use my Hori SC2 stick on my Saturn for some fighting goodness - anyone know of any reliable adapters around?

[Bassman]

After a Google search, I found this:

http://store.yahoo.com/midwestgames/playps22tose.html

I presume they ought to be available elsewhere.

[Kubrick]

lik-sang

They stock them for nearly every console.

[Geoff D]

Very nice, thanks chaps

[JamesS]

Be careful if you want to use it with an arcade stick, though, as a lot of converters don't support old-style PS1 joypads (ones without analogue sticks), which is how a lot arcade sticks and dance mats appear to the console. The Saturn one, AFAIK, only works on Dual Shock compatible controllers.

[Geoff D]

Oh dear - that chucks a hefty spanner in the works then. I suppose I shall have to look out for a Saturn stick then :/

[Geezer]

Mine works with my PS2 Virtua Stick.

[Geoff D]

Geezer - you don't have a Soul Calibur stick you could try by any chance mate?

[Geezer]

Sorry dude, the Virtua Stick is the only PS2 stick I have at the moment

[Geoff D]

Ah now worries - cheers anyway mate

[randombs]

i've always had the impression that it's the consoles, rather than the converters, that cause problems with digital-only pads:

ps2 has been designed to work with psone pads (i.e. digital-only) whereas the cube and xbox EXPECT analogue sticks. i think the newer converters that sort this out tell the console that they do have analogue sticks.

btw if i recall, the SC2 stick does in fact work with the converters, it's the old grey/yellow namco stick, etc, that cause problems (although i have one of these and it works fine with my xbox+magicbox converter)

[msm13579]

i bought one of these:

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-2b-70-k5n.html

in the hope of being able to use my SC2 ps2 stick and ps2 saturn pad on the gamecube and pc, but it doesn't work with any combination i have tried

[randombs]

hmmm maybe it is the adapters at fault then

i guess if you were feeling adventurous you could wire up a dual shock pad's circuit board inside the sc2 stick - that way you'd be fine as the analogue sticks would still be 'present'

[msm13579]

hmmm maybe it is the adapters at fault then

i guess if you were feeling adventurous you could wire up a dual shock pad's circuit board inside the sc2 stick - that way you'd be fine as the analogue sticks would still be 'present'

that is a very good idea, thanks, i may well try it believe it or not i have sort of already done something similar but with a pc pad, the sc2 stick used to work fine on the pc with mame, but its been in storage for a bit and it's not working anymore

oh and i think the sc2 and namco sticks are the same as i had a namco one a while ago and the insides are practically identical!

[Kubrick]

oh and i think the sc2 and namco sticks are the same as i had a namco one a while ago and the insides are practically identical!

Yep, the Namco stick I opened up a while ago also had HORI internals.