Neat. nicely done !

It's wild to me a wireless 360 controller could work through a Gameport. Very cool project!

Thanks for your irreplaceable help with getting this project done Paddy! 🙂
I just finalized the preparation for V1.4, if nothing pops up I will tag it - it's already in master branch now.
Paddy was so kind to prepare ready-to-use gerber files, grab them from here, BOM is available as .csv or .xml here.

@Cosmic: Thanks! Support for PS4 controllers is also planned and generic HID Joysticks and Gamepads also work 😉

Looks promising.

Is device hotplugging supported, or planned? Not having to juggle 2+ keyboards (USB+switch for everything modern + a dedicated PS/2 one for each old box), and simply routing that single USB one to whereever instead, would be a huge plus for me.

Why "SparkFun SAMD21 Mini"? doesnt look that great value at $20 🙁

rasz_pl wrote on 2024-03-09, 04:16:

Why "SparkFun SAMD21 Mini"? doesnt look that great value at $20 🙁

the SAMD 21 is very readily available over a very long period of time, which cannot be said of any other solution at the moment.
This contributed to the decision so that everyone would have the opportunity to purchase the hardware and realize the project.

best regards
Paddy

elszgensa wrote on 2024-03-09, 04:08:

Is device hotplugging supported, or planned?

It is but I'm having issues with some devices because of the USB Stack, see this issue I've opened to track it.
I am doing a USB stack rewrite currently though. Did some preliminary testing and hotplug is working 100% of the time with that.
So stay tuned for updates if you encounter hotplug issues.

Just fyi PS/2 hotplug is also supported but it is not recommended and depends on the host machine.
Win98 can handle it quite well but keep in mind that a PS/2 device needs to be connected at boot-time, otherwise the port is disabled until next reboot.

Ulfenknulfen wrote on 2024-03-09, 07:16:

rasz_pl wrote on 2024-03-09, 04:16:

Why "SparkFun SAMD21 Mini"? doesnt look that great value at $20 🙁

the SAMD 21 is very readily available

SAMD21 yes, but why settle for such expensive dev board instead of soldering $2 ATSAMD21E18 directly on the pcb, or going with $5 Seeed Studio break out board?

Hi all!

Of all the emulation modes, I personally like the "DOOM" mode (F1) the best.
In this case, the keyboard is mapped to the joystick, and you play with e.g. the XBox 360 Controller Doom in DOS.
I'm like the 14-year-old boy playing Doom for the first time 😀.
Of course, the mapping also applies to all other Games who use the doom keyboard mapping.

best regards
Paddy

cdeadman wrote on 2024-03-09, 01:50:

Thanks for your irreplaceable help with getting this project done Paddy! 🙂 I just finalized the preparation for V1.4, if nothing […]
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Thanks for your irreplaceable help with getting this project done Paddy! 🙂
I just finalized the preparation for V1.4, if nothing pops up I will tag it - it's already in master branch now.
Paddy was so kind to prepare ready-to-use gerber files, grab them from here, BOM is available as .csv or .xml here.

@Cosmic: Thanks! Support for PS4 controllers is also planned and generic HID Joysticks and Gamepads also work 😉

Thank you two for this awesome project and ulfenknulfen for sending me one! Working on the review but already can tell that my wireless desktop works great and yesterday I already had much fun playing Descent with my Xbox 360 controller. I really love this game with propper controlls 😀 Doom-mode also successfully tested. Cheers,
Ernie

pc-sound-legacy wrote on 2024-03-11, 18:17:

Thank you two for this awesome project and ulfenknulfen for sending me one! Working on the review but already can tell that my wireless desktop works great and yesterday I already had much fun playing Descent with my Xbox 360 controller. I really love this game with propper controlls 😀 Doom-mode also successfully tested. Cheers,
Ernie

Thanks for reviewing 👍🏼 Glad it works for you!
There's a lot of other emulation modes aswell btw 😄
Although I admit some of them like emulating a Joystick using the Mouse might not make sense at all 😆

Cheers!

And here it is, my review of the HAT 😀

https://youtu.be/sPnST1et0xY?si=A9FEYocOA0vOlaL9

Cheers, Ernie

pc-sound-legacy wrote on 2024-03-20, 12:20:

And here it is, my review of the HAT 😀

https://youtu.be/sPnST1et0xY?si=A9FEYocOA0vOlaL9

Cheers, Ernie

That's a super nice review!

Thanks a lot, Ernie!

best regards
Paddy

a very nice project! I just saw the review - this is really cool! congrats!

Hi Guys!

I built myself 2 of these, and they run wonderfully!
Thank you for such a helpful project.

I have one on my Dell Optiplex Gn with Soundblaster Live,
and the other on my 486 DX/2 66 (PCChips BAT with PS/2 Connectors)
with a Terratec Maestro 32/96.

Both adapters run perfectly with XBox 360 Controller! 😀

it's a lot of fun.

Tom

Hi Tom!

That looks amazing. Nice Solderjob!

have fun

Paddy

Tom75 wrote on 2024-03-27, 15:13:

I built myself 2 of these, and they run wonderfully!
Thank you for such a helpful project.

Happy that you've build them and are enjoying it!
Those are great setups for it aswell, 486 DX/2 66 will always remain one of my favorite CPUs 🙂

Have Fun!

keropi wrote on 2024-03-22, 06:41:

a very nice project! I just saw the review - this is really cool! congrats!

Thanks! 😁

This is awesome now i have a reason to use my windows usb adapter for my wireless 360 controller.