Electric Spin Launchpad - anyone used BOTH PS2 and PC versions?

I am aware that this is considered a somewhat lower end simulator as they go but everyone has to start somewhere to stay busy in winter. Even if I could also get a Launchpad Tour I would still want an original Launchpad because of it's compatibility with games NOT supported by the Tour, most of all the original Links 2003 (on the PC side) and all the fan courses people have made for it! But what I was most curious to hear from was someone who may have used and perhaps even tinkered slightly with both versions. As I understand it the PC version had available a special adapter cable which also let it work on the PS2. This cable seems to be a real rarity now though and i'm wondering where I might go about trying to find one. Another part of me wonders if there's any way the PS2 version could work on a PC such as with those "PS2 controller to PC" adapters they sell for PC's. Does the Launchpad just convert your ball trajectory information into a simple analog joypad style input, and if it were physically plugged into a PC through the adapter could that perhaps work the same in various golf games? Has anyone ever gotten either controller to support games not on the official support list? Perhaps if the output of the Launchpad just simulates an analog control a little internal rewiring could do it for PS2 games, or a software tool for PC games... I probably have other questions along this line but wont spam the board until I can find if anyone else has experimented with such things. Most golfers probably don't also hold a soldering iron or fiddle with computer tweaks but perhaps they know somewhere I could ask these questions better if nothing else...