I was wondering how similar DC mice were to PC mice. I have the official mouse for Dreamcast, but after all these years, it seems the vertical motion is dying. It's very unreliable. It often randomly gets "Stuck" in a certain vertical position until I violently thrust the mouse up and down to break it free from that position. The internal cylinders are completely clean. There is no crud on them that could hamper the motion. I've tried manually moving the cylinder with my finger to confirm that the issue is not the mouse pad.
So is it possible to just chop off the mouse end, saving the dreamcast plug, and solder on a PC mouse to the correct wires? I'm afraid it's not that simple because it looks like the adaptor which serves this purpose, seems to have a chip of some sort inside:
http://www.consolesandgadgets.co.uk/cat ... p-126.html
So that probably means a simple wire hack won't do the job, huh?
I would LOVE to use a high end logitech optical mouse on Dreamcast, with a USB to PS/2 adaptor applied before the hack. That would just be great.