I got me this from a flea sale, it has a db15 pin male conector

I've never been able to find this type of converter reasonably priced. I just ended up counting my loss and trashing my old gamepads.

On the plus side, generic USB gamepads should be very inexpensive these days. You can also buy a PlayStation-to-USB adapter so you can use your PS1/2 controllers with your computer. The ones I've purchased worked fairly well, but may not last longer than a year.

fancy 15pin pads like that essentially fall into 1 of 3 categories:

generic - not really multi-button, just standard 4axis+4button with some of the buttons doubled up. would need a generic active usb adaptor, but dont expect more than 4 buttons.

dual input - natively supports usb with a passive adapter, the chip in pad does the work. i believe some microsoft and logitechs can do this

propriety - uses an improvised digital protocol for multi-button thru 15pin, required a driver that probably only works for old versions of windows. requires a specialized active adapter - if it exists and even then its probably a fan made project. i believe some of the early microsoft sticks have these?

>>2878501
This. You really may as well trash it at this point. It isn't worth the hassle

Im quite dissapointed, I didnt pay much but I could have bought the buffalo snes controller over ebay but decided to save some $ and got this instead.

>>2878452
Hah, I used that pad as my de facto controller prior to NT6.
I think the wheel functioned independently, but I'm not sure if the digital and analog did too, or if it was just mapped to the same x/y axis. That, and you have 2 less buttons (Start and Z) compared to the N64.

It was a great pad for Capcom fighters and arcade games. It had one HUGE flaw though: the D-pad broke after a few months. It had a shit construction where the two parts of the pad (the one you press and the one that hits the PCB) were linked by a single plastic column, which was too weak.
I had to buy 2-3 of these pads cause of that, and sometimes used the analog for normal games too because the d-pad broke off.

Later variants of that pad came with a silver/goldish finish on most of the components.

It was an okay pad but the d-pad really ruined it. Don't bother trying to get it to work, on top of the suicidal d-pad you also have to deal with the fact that db15->usb converters are near impossible to make properly.

>>2878452
pci sound card with gameport ? I don't know if gameport is still supported in modern windows, but this kind of cards go for like $5 anyway

>>2878558
>pci sound card with gameport ? I don't know if gameport is still supported in modern windows, but this kind of cards go for like $5 anyway

It doesn't. They removed gameport support in NT6 (Vista and Win7).

anyway to rewire it or make a homemade adapter? I dont know but im willing to experiment since It seems I just blew my $ away

>>2878452
If only this what the natural N64 controller...

>>2878941
If you have to ask you wouldn't be able to. It's pretty complicated and would be more expensive than just buying a new gamepad. I've done it for old flight sticks and while it's not amazingly complicated you'll easily spend 30 or so in materials.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/15pin-Gameport-to-USB-2-0-Converter-for-PC-PS3-Game-Joystick-Flight-Gamepad-/161904914336?hash=item25b248efa0:g:lOgAAOSwu4BVzRox

10 bucks isn't reasonable you poor faggots?

>>2878454
>but may not last longer than a year.

For you.

>>2881236
>shitbay

Enjoy that box full of rocks

>>2881315
>implying you can't just open a case and ebay gives you your 10 dollars back

ebay always sides with the buyer. I have bought hundreds of things on there and have never had any issues even when I need to get a refund.