MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Which supergun to take?

> > I know. The thing is, after I took a closer look at how that controller works, I'm
> > pretty sure that there is no product on the market that lets you hook up a six
> button
> > Sega Genesis controller to a Street Fighter II PCB. It's not good business. Maybe
> you
> > are one of ten people in the world who would pay for something like that.
>
> Somehow I don't understand this.
> There are people who pay for pre-built superguns, right?
> And there are people who want to play games with six buttons.
> So, why is the combination "people who need a pre-built supergun for six buttons" so
> rare?

No, it's not rare at all...it's like you didn't watch the videos I posted or read anything I wrote. I'm sorry I've wasted my time.

Six buttons are common on Superguns, but any Supergun with six buttons will have a separate connector for the Capcom kick harness, because the extra buttons are not JAMMA standard. JAMMA standard is two players with three buttons per player, not including start and coin up.

This is the part that you didn't get; a button is not just a button.

It's very easy to hook up a gamepad to a Supergun when each button corresponds to a single pin on the plug at the end of its cable. This is not the case with the six button Genesis controller, that's what I'm trying to say. You'd need extra circuitry to decode the additional (additional compared to the original Genesis controlller) buttons because they share pins and will send a different signal on the same pin depending on which button you press. This will not work with an arcade PCB without added circuitry that can translate that.

> By the way, if you're just referring to the fact that Genesis controllers don't work
> while other six button controllers might do, then it's o.k. It doesn't have to be a
> Genesis controller. I just need to know which ones would work.

And there you have it, this just became a whole new discussion: What other six-button controller?

If you want to find a gamepad with six buttons that is easy to hook up to a JAMMA based system like a Supergun, you need to find one where each button corresponds to a pin on the plug at the end of the cable. You do this by examining the pinout of that particular gamepad, like I have shown you with the Genesis controller.

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