Re: Joystick cables with molded DE-9S connector?

polyplay used to have such cables, but they are sold out now... they have 
extension cables though, which may or may not be useful for what you are 
trying to do

Am Samstag, 10. April 2021, 16:28:52 CEST schrieb Marko Mäkelä:
> Hi,
> 
> After a long break, I fired up my Vic-20, sd2iec and UltiMem. Great
> stuff, but all of my joysticks suffer from worn cables. It is not fun to
> play games if the joystick movements are only intermittent.
> 
> A few years ago when I was searching for joystick cables with a molded
> plastic connector, I found nothing. Today I found one promising shop,
> but still sadly nothing in the European Union.
> 
> I also found some related forum discussion. The first one is about
> joystick cord extension and building a buffer to protect the CIA or VIA
> when using a very long joystick cable:
> 
> https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/53439-joystick-kabel/
> 
> But, I fear that a metal connector case could scratch the metal shield
> around the joystick connector. Here, someone came up with a DIY solution
> of removing the metal part of a DE-9S connector, adding a circuit board
> and applying heat-shrink tube:
> 
> https://atariage.com/forums/topic/228399-replacement-atari-2600-joystick-con
> troller-cables/
> 
> On that forum, some people are also questioning the quality of some
> joystick replacement cables. I would guess that some of them could
> originate from used joysticks, or be old stock from decades ago, and
> thus be prone to failure.
> 
> This Australian shop claims to have newly produced, 9-pin cables:
> 
> http://ombertech.com/contcable9pin.php
> 
> (As you may know, the +5V signal was often omitted, and the paddle
> signals were almost always omitted, so most original cables would be
> only 5-pin or 6-pin.)
> 
> I found also this shop in the United States:
> 
> https://console5.com/store/accessories/controller-cables.html
> 
> Does anyone have experience with such replacement joystick cables?
> 
> Last, thinking aloud, are there adapters that would convert modern USB
> or Bluetooth controllers to the Atari 2600 format? If not, maybe that
> would be a fun project for me. That would be a small box that would be
> powered from one joystick port, optionally with additional cables to
> other joystick ports. Somewhat related to that, one could want to equip
> and old joystick with a small battery-powered Bluetooth microcontroller,
> for a wireless playing experience.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 	Marko


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