The ultimate controller box has begun AKA Bliss-Box

[ulaoulao]

The boards have arrived and aren't they sexy.

the board its self



and the wired board
this is the color wiring for the do it your selfers.

Also I have a painted box frame, looks nice!

[Zach]

Board looks nice.

The box frame has a weird texture though, is that cause its styrofoam ?

[ulaoulao]

Wow that is the second person that said that.. LOL, well no it would never work that way. Its a plastic box, and it does have a texture. I sort of like it, as I hate plane, but it can be filed down.

I could not think of a cool design, was thing of a few Nintendo characters but everything I though of seemed to tacky, so I left it all black. Ideas welcome.

[Leerz]

wow, this is the only thread that made me login back
man, I want this, but I feel it's too pricey for me (but I do understand for how it turned out that way)

I'm currently using boards posted at emulatronia, handcrafted with love and works wall(directpad and through the parallel port).

I might get this, will have to check garage sales for those old controllers.

[Zach]

I think texture is OK, just not that texture

Smooth black would suck and get real dirty easily... But something textured, more like the general plastic you get with Speakers, keyboards, mice, etc might be the way to go.

As for art.. Why not hire someone to do a bliss box logo for the top of the unit, and money permitting, have it printed silk screen onto the top of the unit covers.

That would look sweet.

[aevans0001]

Well I ordered my controller and am so anxious to get it...... Sounds like things are going pretty good with version 1..... Can't wait for Version 2 and Rumble support and everything else...

[aevans0001]

Well I recieved my Blissbox today and let me tell you so far this board is As Advertised. I figured it would work about 80% but so far it has worked 99%, the only hiccup I have seen so far is the Atari Paddles, which is more than likely just me not knowing how to set them up...

I have tested SNES, N64, Sega, Atari Joysticks, Atari Driving controllers, and Commodore 64

[ulaoulao]

My fault on the paddles...

First I have to admit I forgot you wanted them. but for readers consider this.

1) paddles are not part of bliss-box, they are add ons. And beta.
2) most emulators dont support them for example see stella link
3) most paddles are worn down to nothing and hard to clean.
4) you need to request this upon design, or use my paddle add-on adapter ( plugs in to neo-geo or psx)
5) I have 2 beta testers so far, hope to improve this.


--------------- ok in the news...

a bit of a change in analog design. Turns out a fully filled bar in the game controller app means 0... Yeah? What sort of crack is m$ smoking? See picture for illustration. So if the trigger / button / slider is fully pressed the bar is empty.. Call my crazy, but that just seem backwards.


also - Guitar Hero is officially supported

[aevans0001]

Well I recieved my Blissbox today and let me tell you so far this board is As Advertised. I figured it would work about 80% but so far it has worked 99%, the only hiccup I have seen so far is the Atari Paddles, which is more than likely just me not knowing how to set them up...

I have tested SNES, N64, Sega, Atari Joysticks, Atari Driving controllers, and Commodore 64

Ok just to update I also tested the NES controllers today....

All seems well so far... WIll right up full review later...

[ulaoulao]

Hey aevans0001, always good to here reviews.


-- update time --



I was doing a bit of thinking and thought hmmmmm. how nice would that be to switch controllers during game play. Of course this will work just fine if I install a reset button, but what about the controller button to HID assignments. This would mess things up a bit since start on the n64 is not start on the snes and so on. Then I decided to work out a universal layout that would match up most of the common buttons. Like start(nes) is to pause(3d0) is to run(tg16) and etc..

notes: I left some blank HID assignments to match things up better, and its ok to skip hid assignments like that, but I try not to. Also there may be some missing layouts, and if you spot them let me know. For example I did not include jaguar pro, mainly because I dont have one.

So, How did I do? what do you suggest?

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?...yOXJyTnc&hl=en

For example and another way of putting this would be to say, if you were playing sega, and wanted to use an nes controller, whats the preferred button to button matching.



Also.. a way to change players..

here is a big problem for me.. but here is the answer.

http://www.wingmanteam.com/latest_so...oyIDs_Utility:

Go to this link and download JoyID It will allow you to change HID joystick HID ID's So if you have a 2 player box and cant just change controllers with the guy next to you and would like the left side of the box to be player 1 and the right side to be player 2, you can Its not a hard app to use, just follow the help that comes with it.