$4 from ebay, I cut off the parts I needed with scissors.
I used what I had on hand, a “6inch DB9 Female Port to Dual DB9 RS232 Male Serial Y Splitter Ribbon Flat Cable” for the adapter. The electronics for the Atari 2600 controllers are the same but the pinouts are different so you can’t plug them directly in. I got the idea from ArcadeUSA’s youtube video but I did it a slightly different way so I could also use the original controllers as well. The solution? Wire it up to accept a standard Atari 2600 controller! It’s kind of a ubiquitious standard that’s compatible with the Commodore 64 and believe it or not, Genesis/MegaDrive controllers. The joysticks it came with were completely broken – unfortunately finding replacement controllers for old systems is quite difficult and fixing them to work like new almost always requires new membranes or other parts that are not made anymore. Your golfer gets mad when he hits trees.įor this one I did a composite video mod as that’s a huge improvement over the original noisy RF that requires a US TV tuned to channel 3 or 4. Care for a game of golf? It’s actually not bad. Magnavox Odyssey 2 was one of the major three home consoles prior to the 1983 video game market crash, along with Atari 2600 and IntelliVision.