tepples wrote:I gather from your previous post that instead of wanting us to help you learn how to construct the wiring instructions, you want us to construct complete wiring instructions for you.
It doesn't mean that
you should write down the instructions. I was asking whether you know of a finished product that can do what I want or whether you know of a manual that describes everything in detail or whether you know where I can pay somebody to do this.
And yes, it's right. I don't want to learn how to do this. Why is this always such a shock?
Let me guess: You would be able to assemple such a converter, right?
Because this whole "Why don't you want to learn it?" always only comes from people who know about the topic themselves. Therefore, they conclude that everybody else who wants
anything in this direction has to know about the topic or learn about the topic.
When I ask a technician about technical stuff, he just doesn't understand that I don't want to learn to do it myself. And when I ask a musician about one little detail about stuff in NES sound, he is totally shocked that I don't want to spend my own time finding it out by learning all details that you need to learn before you even get to my original question.
Curiously, I have never seen this with people who don't know about the topic in question themselves.
A non-musician will never criticze me for not wanting to learn major details about music when I have a simple little question. And a non-technician will never berate me for not trying to build stuff myself.
And you know what? Not wanting to do it myself is totally o.k. Because that's how things work in real life.
If my heating is broken, I want it repaired. I don't want to learn how to repair it myself. So, when I ask what I can do against it, I'd think people will tell me a good mechanic and not linking me to a graphic that lists the part of a heating.
So, yeah, you're right: I don't want to learn how to do this. I'm a software developer. And in my free time, I have other things to do.
I wouldn't repair a broken plug socket, I wouldn't fix a dripping faucet and I wouldn't disassemble my DVD player to find an issue in it. I pay people who know about it to do that for me.
I don't grow my own wheat and I don't have my own cattle. If I want to eat bread or meat, I go to the supermarket and buy it. If it tastes crappy, I buy something else. I don't start to learn how to bake my own bread.
And I'm pretty sure you don't do everything yourself either, do you? Do you cut your own hair and sew your own clothes?
So, why is it such a surprise that I don't want to spend a huge amount of time on stuff like assembling controller ports? Why is this such a surprise to you? Because you are able to do this? Well, surprise: According to your logic, you should never ask anybody where to get a specific soup. So, are you not willing to learn how to create this specific soup yourself?
rainwarrior wrote:What tepples is saying is that because Neo Geo's connector is a simple one where each button corresponds to a single pin/wire, there should really be no mystery about what to do. There's no moving parts, no digital logic, just wires going from one pin to the other.
Sure, but how shall I remap them? It's not that I can just pull out the pins from their plug with tweezers and they are connected to a wire, so that I can comfortably pull them out and put them into a different hole of an extension chord.
Which is exactly what I will
never do.
Plugging stuff together, like connecting the mother board, graphics card, hard disk etc. in a computer: This is what I would actually do. If I have exact instructions for the thing I want to do.
Because, as I said: I don't see that you can just pull out pins from a NeoGeo controller or an extension chord, so I'd need to know first how to free them and extend them (since they go into different holes of another plug, so the pins need to have some movable wire behind them).
But soldering, i.e. melting metal with some hot pen-like item: Forget it. This is beyond the whole "do it yourself by plugging it together". This is working with actual professional devices that need caution or else you set your apartment on fire or at least burn your finger.
So, no, if creating such a converter requires soldering, then my above arguments of not doing everything yourself, but getting people to do it who actually know what they're doing counts even more.
