Mendon Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 I've never had an Odyssey2 unit that had detachable controllers; all mine are hard wired. I've recently noticed a couple of auctions on eBay for Odyssey2 units with detachable controllers and I'm sort of interested. If you have one of these units, can you use a Atari 2600 controller with them by simply plugging it in or do you have to do a modification to the Odyssey2? Thanks in advance! Mendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 I hope I'm wrong, but I believe the Odyssey^2 controllers are wired differently. I don't know how hard adapting a 2600 controller to it would be. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted December 19, 2003 Share Posted December 19, 2003 Unfortunately, that is correct. Odyssey 2 and VCS are incompatible with each other, controllerwise. I believe Dan Boris has information on his website about the wirings of each, maybe that could help you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phosphor Dot Fossils Posted December 20, 2003 Share Posted December 20, 2003 There are some third-party O2 controllers for the detachable-joystick model - made by Wico - but they're exceedingly rare. Other than that, you're really stuck with the O2 sticks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mendon Posted December 20, 2003 Author Share Posted December 20, 2003 Okay. Thanks to all for your responses; much appreciated! Someone here on the AA forums (my senile mind forgets who) posted once that they had an O2 that used 2600 joysticks. I never got around to PM'ing them to ask if they modified their O2 or what. Now that I saw these units on eBay with detachable controllers I wish I would have asked. Would be nice to be able to quickly and easily switch out a joystick if you ever needed/wanted to. Then again, I've never had a broken O2 joystick so maybe it doesn't matter that much. Thanks again! Mendon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 Ok .. Here's the scoop: It is easy to make an adapter to convert 2600 joystick to O2 console if it has detatchable controllers (and vice versa). Alternatively you can rewire an Atari controller to work with the O2 .. Just move some wires around. It is somewhat challenging to convert the wired O2 console to allow for detatchable controllers. If you are good with a soldering iron .. get busy! Go to http://users.erols.com/tiltonj/games/tech/ for all the info you need. Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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