tantone56 Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Does anyone know where to get a Vectrex controller these days or even a homemade substitute? I see some on Ebay, but they cost an arm and a leg. I just really want to play my system, and let my little nephew play with it as well. If anyone has any thoughts about this, please let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAC MAN FEVER Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 Unfortunately most vectrex controllers any where will pretty much cost an arm and a leg I think you mod a sega genesis controller though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 (edited) I've see various handmade substitutes, almost always using a digital directional control (eg, genesis or jaguar controller conversions). Should be pretty straight forward. It seems though that a better one would have an analog joystick; doesn't seem like it should be that hard, but I think I've only heard of one (handmade, and not for sale). A full size, arcade cabinet style analog joystick with four quality arcade buttons and a long cord would be great. Bet if someone designed it and built some, they would sell fairly easily. Edited April 2, 2011 by fiddlepaddle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRGilbert Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 The stupid thing is that you are almost better off just buying a whole second Vectrex. That way you at least have a backup unit. Or try to keep an eye out on ebay for a broken system, you might get a deal that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catsmasher Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 You can modify a Sega Genesis controller. http://www.flickr.com/photos/14482990@N08/3649819692/in/set-72157620164985374/ My 17 yr old son did the conversion for me in a couple of hours. Definitely worth doing. They work better, are more comfortable and the Vectrex controllers are too expensive to risk messing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 You can modify a Sega Genesis controller... Unfortunately, you can't do analog that way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Fisher Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 You can modify a Sega Genesis controller... Unfortunately, you can't do analog that way... True, but of the original games, only Hyperchase and game 2 of Starhawk use the analog function. Of those two, only Starhawk is two-player simultaneous. Not a huge loss, in my opinion. I made a controller a while ago using the same circuit as used in the Genesis mod but I built a little box and used an arcade joystick from Happs and arcade buttons. I even put in extra left and right buttons so I could turn without using the joystick, a la the arcade versions of Asteroids, Ripoff, Space Wars, etc. That reminds me, I need to make a better box for that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hwj_chim Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 (edited) A video of a genesis controller on a Vectrex Edited April 8, 2011 by hwj_chim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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