PSX Optical Mouse

[Matarick]

Since I have RPG Maker, both PSX Tokimeki Memorial games, and soon to get Dezaemon Plus; I wonder if it would be possible to sacrificing the innards of a PSX mouse according to the pin outs at the bottom to match up the optical sensing unit of an optical mouse?

Does Optical mice use it's own chipset to convert optical data as track movement, or it would be a simple mod like your USB Saturn Pad solution?

I wonder if the same principle would apply for Saturn and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive mice?

Thank you in advance and Happy Holidays to NFG Games.

[NFG]

The concept is similar to trying to replace the optical N64 joystick mech with a potentiometer-based mech.  You need to re-write the chip in the controller to convert the pure inputs into something the PS can understand.  I'm sure it's not impossible, but it's not trivially easy either.