forrestsmith Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 (edited) Taking inspiration from this thread and following the wiring instructions I added joy stick ports onto my Odyssey 2 that are Atari compatible. I also rewired the factory joy sticks so I can still use them. Instead of connecting new cables to the mother board though I just used the factory joy stick cable that was already in place and wired them onto the new ports. Since I was at it I also added and on/off LED light and hooked up a new RF cable (some how I found a silver one in my parts box the looks pretty sharp) and cleaned the motherboard and cartridge port. The outside of the case had some pretty bad scratches on it so I decide to repaint it. I used Rust Oleum Silver textured metallic paint. Its still has a factory look with a little more pop. The texture is very subtle like a textured plastic. I have had very good luck using this paint in the past. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/184738-modded-my-odyssey-2-to-use-atari-joysticks/ Edited March 11, 2015 by forrestsmith 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+eebuckeye Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Wow.. really nice work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+pboland Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Nice looking OD2. One of my favorite systems. BTW, if you can find an older style OD2, they already have detachable controllers. Unfortunately, the 9 pin din is not compatible with atari without modifications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Perhaps you want to add a small note to the case that the ports are customized to take Atari style joysticks, just for that sake you would come across loose Odyssey^2 joysticks one day and by mistake plug them in. However I can't recall how much different the pinout is, if it could cause problems or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Can't do harm putting a original o2 joystick to a atari compatible ports. Ground isn't connected and a few other lines are different. Nice looking o2. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Good design. I think I had my joystick ports on the side of the system after trying unsuccessfully to put them in the back. I don't know what I was thinking either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted October 28, 2015 Share Posted October 28, 2015 I've got my O2 and Voice apart and plan to paint like yours .. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 When you painted yours, you painted over the ODYSSEY 2 logo on the left upper side. What did you replace it with?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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