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You know those ultra cheap controllers that you use with the really basic video game set you plug into your TV (Runs on a cartridge- Duckhunt, Crash and burn, All them classic games)
Any way to plug those into a PC and let it work?
It's really basic, 8 buttons (D pad), start and select. The chips inside are simple so I'm guessing it was never meant to communicate with anything el