I was digging through some of my random junk today and found an old nes controller I had forgotten about. Towards the end of the cord(that plugs into the nes controller port) there is a red rca plug that splits off. There is also what appears to be a headphone jack on the bottom of the controller and a switch with the text "sound shift off< >on" above it. Is there anything else this controller is good for besides making it slightly easier to use headphones on a nes? edit: somehow missed the name of the controller(printed right on the front) until now, it's a Joycard Sansui. From what I've read on the web it seems to only be good for using headphones. Though on the plus side it's said to be kinda hard to find.
Yes, I had one of these when I was a kid.... the "Joycard Sansui SSS". It does do a little synthesis on the NES' audio to "simulate" stereo sound. I remember playing games like Little Nemo with it, and it sounded great! I have the Famicom version of it now, and I'm trying to amplify the output somehow, since it's so quiet through the headphones for some reason.
Does the famicom version look different? I would assume not since this one looks more like a famicom controller then an nes one. How does the controller simulate stereo sound? Does it play all sounds in both speakers, or split them up? edit: I would just try them out for myself but the only nes I've got handy is a pain to get working. Here in a week or so I'll dig one of my nes consoles that's in better shape and try this thing.
It's the 7th controller on this page, the joycard. http://www.geocities.com/djslacker1/nintendo_controllers.html
The Fami one is almost identical. IIRC, the NES Joycard had a hatch in the back where the headphones were stored, right? The FC Joycard has no such hatch. No storage. Also, since the Famicom joystick connector already has audio-out, there is no RCA jack sticking out of the FC Joycard's plug.
