Jaguar-to-ColecoVision Controller Modification (Coleco-Jag Pad)
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Why
I dislike the standard Colecovision controllers. They are awkward and worse yet, they don't last very long. The Atari Jaguar controller is the most ergonomic joypad I have ever used.
Johann is field testing the Coleco-Jag game pad with Jungle Hunt
How
I found an extra Jag controller in a local thrift for $3 and decided that this would make a fine speciemen for my experiment. I opened the Jaguar controller and found that the pinouts are easy to map to the Coleco controller. As can be seen in the following picture, I had to wire up about 15-16 wires. I removed all the diodes from the Jag PCB as well as the inverter chip. I then clipped off all the unecessary hardware off the Coleco controller with the hopes of nesting the Coleco PCB inside the Jag controller casing. I had to trim the tabs on the Jag case (through trial and error) to get the 2 halves to match. I left the standard coiled Coleco plug in place. I don't recommend this as it is kinda short (another gripe I have about the standard Coleco controllers). In ay event, the keypad is fully functional and I have wired up two separate fire buttons. It works wonderful.
Hooking it all up.
Can You Make Them For Me?
No. These are too much work to make it worthwhile. It is my hope that someone would create an adapter to use a Jag controller so that one wouldn't have to hack a perfectly good Jaguar controller.
Coleco-Jag Pad setup in the lab on a Adam Computer
(note that the bulky Adam printer/Powr Supply has been replaced).
(gros copier-coller de cette page : http://home.earthlink.net/~resqsoft/coleco.htm )



Mias ça colle bien avec le design général de la Jag.
