cassette rack, a black ash box roughly the ideal size to make an arcade stick out of

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1. Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 13:01:26 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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   When I was sixteen years old I took one of these drawer-style cassette racks and drilled holes in the top to accommodate an arcade joystick and ten buttons.

   I took apart a PlayStation controller, sanded off the solder mask, and soldered wires directly to the copper traces, running from the PlayStation pad to my arcade stick's microswitches. Then I went to a computer market and bought a PlayStation to parallel adaptor and plugged this abomination into my printer port because I was still waiting for someone to invent USB, then spent a merry afternoon figuring out how to get DOS to see it, then get MAME to see it, then I enjoyed me some Sunset Riders.

   THAT

   was an EASIER CONTROLLER SETUP

   than FUCKING RETROARCH