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Pause button mod makes lazy gamers even lazier

Here's a nice project that shows you how to insert a pause button into your existing Sega Master System console game controller. Simply add a few resistors and a new button that simultaneously pushes the left and right directions at the same time to send a ground signal to a 4071 gate IC. This then grounds the new button and pauses your game. More details at the link below...

Pause Button Mod - Link

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Posted by: Maker on January 31, 2008 at 12:53 PM

Pardon my ignorance, but that looks like a NES controller... Don't they already have a start/pause button??

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Posted by: computerwiz_222 on January 31, 2008 at 12:56 PM

The system they were modding is really old and that is a sega controller btw.

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Posted by: Maker on January 31, 2008 at 1:15 PM

Oh, I see the BIG pic of the front of the controller now... the other pic wasn't that big. I can't believe I'm not old enough to remember that far back :) I had an old colecovision when I was a kid (and nes, and even a Texas Instruments PC that I'm gonna try to sell on ebay soon), but I didn't know about any segas before their three button days.

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Posted by: joem on January 31, 2008 at 2:44 PM

dear Jonah Brucker-Cohen, you could have mentioned what system it was for in the article, you know...

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