The OpenBrite Turbo Controller for Vectrex
At long last, I debuted my custom turbo Vectrex controller at the Houston Arcade Expo on October 19 & 20. This will be a milestone for Vectrex fans and collectors, as it brings about more ergonomic controls and a rate-adjustable Turbo (auto-fire) mode that can toggle per button. Vectrex Controller Prototype, as seen in Houston last month Why, you ask? I acquired a Vectrex in late 2015 from a very generous individual who had several to spare. However, it did not come with a controller, so it laid dormant until I got around to building the giant 100x NES controller . As the guts of a cheap knock-off NES controller from Amazon went into my behemoth NES controller, I used its shell and buttons to enclose a crude perf-board controller, and cut up a cheap Sega Genesis extension cable from Amazon in order to make all the connections from my hand-soldered board into the Vectrex. It is well-documented on how to fashion a Sega Genesis controller into a Ve...