This is cool, is there a saturn emulator out there to use with this hack ? http://www.gamesx.com/controldata/usbsatpad/
the best would be the sega made discoutinued giri giri, that is if you can even find the hacked one anymore.
Erm... I don't think he was asking for an emulator, I think he was asking if a USB'ed Saturn controller would work with any Saturn emulator. Honestly it should work with about ANY emulator, Saturn or otherwise since you can bind whatever keys to whatever buttons you like. ~Krelian
If the emulator allows gamepads, it should work perfectly. I have a PSX->USB adaptor that I use with MAME, and it works like a charm, and it also works with a lot of the freeware Japanese shooters I play as well. If you find a cheap and easy source for the controllers whose USB chip you have to steal, let me know, as I've been wanting to do that mod since I first read about it on GameSX.
Thinking a little more generically, you could use a digital Playstation pad and put its guts into the Saturn pad. Then use a readily available PSX->PC USB adapter AND have a good Playstation pad to boot I think it'd be a little more useful and probably a little bit cheaper to do it this way. I haven't been able to find a USB controller with enough buttons for less than $15, while those adapters are around $10 and digital PSX pads... you may have one already lying around.
They were selling Logitech gamepads with one d-pad, two analog sticks, and about 12 buttons for 1e with minor defects at the computer market lately... so I snagged one for exactly that purpose.
Or a Diamond Edge video card which has two Saturn controller ports built right into it. ...word is bondage...
If you could find a driver to make the Edge work in Windows 2000/XP, you would be my personal hero. I can't get the one I have to work in any capacity. And I think the appeal of making your own pad comes from the the $20 max cost of a USB controller to sacrifice (assuming you already have a Saturn pad) versus the ~$40 cost of the official controller (and this is before shipping.) Plus there's the masochistic little desire to say, 'yeah, I built that controller.' :-D
