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Re: Question about Joysticks

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Originally Posted by DeepWater
A USB to serial converter converts USB to RS-232 and will not work at all to make a modern USB joystick work with a OI. In fact, they are not even the same connector.
If you were really determined to get this to work, and didn't want to open up the joystick, you could probably use a PIC to convert the RS232 or USB into plain analog signals that you need for the joystick port.

The rules say that you can't have a 'portable computing device' connected to the joystick port, but I think that that's supposed to mean a PDA or laptop.