I'll tell you I went that route a few years back of wanting a universal Joystick and I didn't get very far. I had issues at the time sourcing one of those universal PCBs and finding RJ connectors for each console. Most of the stuff was out of stock at the time.FRO wrote:
I'm thinking more for older retro stuff, i.e. PlayStation, Saturn, SNES, Genesis, TurboGrafx, etc. I know that if I built a custom stick with the Brooks fighting board, and married it with the retro board, I can buy RJ45 plug converters for many older consoles, and I can get a lot of mileage out of that. The up front expense of the parts to build it, however, is the sticking point (pun intended) for me. Just a good stick body can be pricey, if I want to get something that's already cut, molded, and has the holes I need for stick and buttons. I don't really have tools to do the work myself, so I need something that's already kind of plug and play. I might look into the Brooks PS2 and DC converters, though, to see what they would set me back. That might be worth looking into for an interim solution.
So I improvised and went with what was best for me at the time. I had several arcade joysticks for the Xbox 360 and PS3 which I gutted and used for cases.
I pad hacked my Sega Saturn pad and gutted my HRAP SA. Now I have a Saturn Joystick
Dreamcast had some really good converters like the Innovation and Total Control 3.
Unfortunately for the PS2 I had to buy a Hori Arcana Heart stick because I failed at pad hacking a PS2 controller
Then realizing that I wasn't able to mount an LS-32 in it
So I gutted the PCB and installed it in one of my PS3 I sacrificed.