Nintendo 64 Joystick Pinout for Arduino

[chrisdotcode]

http://dpedu.io/article/2015-03-11/nintendo-64-joystick-pinout-arduino

[famousactress]

Ah! I've been building out a couple raspberry pi console-emulators and settled on using some original SNES controllers along with the buffalo USB clones of them. In the process I dug out my childhood N64 as well, and I put it in the "to-ebay/garage sale" pile without reservation mostly because of how much I despise those controllers!

[vlunkr → famousactress]

That controller has to be one the strangest design choices nintendo has ever made. I'm pretty sure I used that d-pad in <= 1 game

[maxerickson → vlunkr]

It was the biggest launch to date of thumb sticks, I think they wanted people to not worry about whether they would like them or not.

[vlunkr → maxerickson]

That makes sense. If people ended up not liking them or they broke easily developers could fall back to using the d-pad instead.

[icebraining → famousactress]

Funny; they're still my favorite. Fitted so well in my hands.

[Klasiaster]

Hey,

there is also some Arduino code ported to make up a Tetris game with Composide Video Out and N64 controller: https://github.com/pothos/arduino-n64-controller-library