MiSTer FPGA Forum

Hello.
How can i configuration an original paddle controller with usb adapter on the atari 2600 core?
Can you help me with a little tutorial ?

FPGA64 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:21 pm you need the Atari Snac adaptor and a ADC board on the mister. You plug the Snac adaptor into the "Not" Usb port on the IO board and connect the cable between the Snac adaptor and the ADC input.

Its fairly easy but not exactly simple.

I am raising this one again as the Atari2600+ was released and paddle options are not great for MiSTer, so I bought the £30 official ones with 4 games from Amazon UK.

When they arrived and didnt work with my 3in1 Daemonbite, I got the SNAC adapter and 3.5mm cable to go to the ADC.
Still didnt work until I used the correct OLDER 2600 Core with SNAC (2020 07 26 - which is 3.5 years old at the time of writing this post).
Who is maintaining the 7800 Core with 2600 Support, and shouldnt they be told of the issue and working older core???

Finally, the range of motion on the older core isnt correct as the paddle is sensitive and quickly goes from one side to another but with lots of paddle twisting remaining...

I'd love to understand more and contribute but at this time, I can only perform QA on what we have available.

Kitrinx develops the 7800/2600 and if I'm not misremembering, wasn't interesting in adding SNAC paddle support.

Support for the Daptor D9 and PDL (recommended to avoid grounding related jitter) is fantastic in that core and works with up to four paddles.

SNAC support would be awesome and I would jump for joy. The only drawback would be it would be limited to one set of paddles, but that is fine with me. I prefer the 7800 core with the D9 over the old 2600 core with SNAC because I think the image on the screen looks better on the 7800 core from what I recall. I have beat the SNAC horse to death though so I stopped advocating for it for the most part. Maybe someday I can learn how to implement it myself and share an RBF even if it is not official, but I doubt it.

I raised the issue on Github, the problem is that SNAC support works in the 7800/2600 core (Paddle button works), but ADC doesn't.

I can use the 2600+ Paddles with SNAC and ADC working, with a specific SNAC-enabled version of the 2600 core:

viewtopic.php?p=35889#p35889

Does anyone have experience with the Reflex Adapt and the Atari Paddle controller?

I have Atari joysticks working fine with the "Genesis" cable/adaptor, and the Reflex Adapt sees the paddle buttons as "left" and "right" on the joystick input, which makes sense because those are the same pins, but I don't see any indication that the potentiometers are being read.

zachcollier wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:30 pm

Does anyone have experience with the Reflex Adapt and the Atari Paddle controller?

I have Atari joysticks working fine with the "Genesis" cable/adaptor, and the Reflex Adapt sees the paddle buttons as "left" and "right" on the joystick input, which makes sense because those are the same pins, but I don't see any indication that the potentiometers are being read.

Adapt doesn't support 2600 paddles, unfortunately.

Lightwave wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:00 pm

Adapt doesn't support 2600 paddles, unfortunately.

That seemed to be the case. No big deal! I’ll find another way to play.

Thank you for confirming!

zachcollier wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:10 pm

Lightwave wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:00 pm

Adapt doesn't support 2600 paddles, unfortunately.

That seemed to be the case. No big deal! I’ll find another way to play.

Thank you for confirming!

I can recommend the 2600daptor PDL mentioned above, also the Retrofi (Atari paddle version) here looks promising, as it can be used wired or wirelessly:

https://brunofreitas.myshopify.com/prod ... 9939975411