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USB RetroPad Adapter (c)2011/2012 - Bruno Freitas - [email protected] See COPYING.TXT for licensing information.
About
USB RetroPad Adapter is a USB port of the Wii RetroPad Adapter. It allows you to use the following classic controllers in your PC, Mac or PS3:
:. Sega Genesis pad(also supports: Sega Master System, Atari 2600 and others)
:. Nintendo NES pad
:. Super NES pad
:. Playstation digital pads and Playstation 2 pads
:. Game Cube pad
:. Nintendo 64 pad
USB RetroPad Adapter also comes with handy screw terminal connectors, allowing you to hook up a homemade arcade control to it and and use it to play your favo- rite games on your PC or PS3!
How to get it
USB RetroPad Adapter is Opensource / Open hardware, so you can construct your PCB, compile the source code, burn the firmware in the micro-controller and start using it.
However, there are people who are not familiar with PCB manufacturing process nor have the skills, or even time, to construct his/her own adapter. For those people, you are invited to contact me at [email protected] so I can sell you a ready-to-use adapter! :)
You will also be able to buy it from both http://www.brunofreitas.com/ or http://www.faiscaefumaca.com.br/
Legal
USB RetroPad Adapter source code (software) is licensed under GPLv3.
USB RetroPad Adapter is open hardware licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Acknowledgements
Thanks goes out to all people below. Without their work, this project wouldn't be possible:
:. Roberto Oliveira for all the help with the PCB and "hardware" stuff.
:. Bill Porter for his PS2X Arduino library
:. The Arduino Team
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