hey everyone if u guys have been wondering how to play those classic arcade games without using a controller that is bought from the store well have i got news for u. i have been to this site.

http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/snes_adaptor/snes_adaptor_en.php

it showed me how to convert ur old Super NES controller to computer. it was pretty simple. that all you have to do is cut the wires from the old connector and re-attach them to a LPT connector(Got the parts at Radio Shack) heres a photo of my homemade Comp Enabled Super NES Controller. i found the drivers on the same site and then got the emulator here.
http://www.consoleclassix.com/titleslist.html?list=ST&system=
the emulator "Console Classix" has a library of classic arcade games. (but you have to become a member. dont worry its free.)
tell me your thoughts about it.


[file cleanup - saving space - attachment deleted by ADMIN]Personally I just bought a USB Gamepad for my SNES gaming needs. (I was going to say NES, but then I realized that I haven't found a single decent NES emulator besides NESticle for DOS, which won't run properly on XP. (All the win versions I try are too slow). In any case, I suppose it could save money if you already have no controller and IF you don't need that controller for a REAL SNES . What I like about having a different controller is that mine looks like a PS2 controller (Logitech dual-action), So I have the standard SNES layout, and then an extra four buttons (the two JOYSTICKS push down, and the "R2" and "L2" buttons. I set the two joysticks for Save/Load state (hee hee) and the rear shoulder buttons to be turbo for A and B.

Now that I think about it, ZSNES is the only app I really use the controller with, that and a few Racing games.

dude my second link. toke u to a emulator that works on XP.i have a pretty good emulator for nes called biones. i dont have any problems at all. i have ran it on XP and Vista. as far as the contoller ISSUE, i think a SNES controller on a computer would be great. only problem is that most computers especially laptops dont have LPT ports anymore. mayber there will be a USB mod soon.!!!!The problem isn't getting them to work on XP, they work fine, just too slow for me. It's simply my computer is so slow (350 Mhz), but with 512MB of RAM. The question is, why does ZSNES work at 50/60 frames a second half the time? and yet all the NES emu's I have tried so far, FceuWin,JNes,Nester a few others, seem to have problems going 10.
my games, like my SNES games with perfect FRAMERATE and NES games and so forth, not to mention all the games I've purchased that don't work on my machine.

And I kind of lied- Nesticle95 works fine on my XP computer. I just CANNOT stand it's sound output! It sounds like they switched to some kind of MIDI thing for the windows version.

I guess when I get a CHANCE I'll put a little more effort in the search. Until then, my 850 NES roms will sit on my HD. I play them on my old 75Mhz laptop at full speed and perfect NES sound, but it has a teensy hard drive compared to my XP computer, not to mention I need to use floppies to transfer.

I know I should probably upgrade my computer. Problem is, I'll be able to suddenly do so much with a new computer I'll probably spend my first few weeks with it re-playing all