Use An NES Controller On Your PC

Hacked Gadgets has a great how to in their forums on getting an original NES controller wired into your PC. Why would you want to play Castlevania with the keyboard when you could smash some buttons on the original NES controller?

“Instead of just playing the old NES games on a PC using a keyboard or modern joystick why not wire in one of the original NES joysticks and play the games like they were meant to be enjoyed! He wired the joystick into the parallel port and wrote some custom interface software using Free Basic.”

There is a complete write on including all the software you need to get it going here.

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