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Paradise Arcade Xin Mo 1 Player Arcade Controller Review (also 2 player)
MTPPC:
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--- Quote from: MTPPC on June 26, 2012, 08:09:20 pm ---I just got around to trying this out. The wiring diagram is completely inverted on mine. Ground are on pins 3 and 4. Joystick is on 15,17,19,21. B1-B8 are on 22,20,18,16,14,12,10,8 Respectively B9-B12 are on 13,11,9,7 respectively. Shorting 3 and 5 toggles the joystic between XY, Z and POV hat. Thanks for 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.
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I just got one and ran into the same problem. The diagram that came with it was completely wrong. Also, I was surprised that outside of the first post in this thread, I couldn't find a correct diagram anywhere! Anyway, I threw together a new diagram in Visio real quick that hopefully will help help prevent someone in the future from wasting a bunch of time trying to figure out why it's not working:
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There must be variations of this board. My pin 1 is where your diagram shows 22. My pin 22 is where your diagram shows Pin 1. I just confirmed this by looking at my board. The silkscreen on the PCB shows termination the exact opposite of your diagram. I guess this is just how it works when you are buying this Chinese crap.... but I must say, my encoder is working flawlessly in my mini digital pinball:
EvilEmuOfDoom:
--- Quote from: MTPPC on July 18, 2012, 05:13:14 pm ---There must be variations of this board. My pin 1 is where your diagram shows 22. My pin 22 is where your diagram shows Pin 1. I just confirmed this by looking at my board. The silkscreen on the PCB shows termination the exact opposite of your diagram. I guess this is just how it works when you are buying this Chinese crap.... but I must say, my encoder is working flawlessly in my mini digital pinball:
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Ah, I didn't even think of this being the case, good catch! I'll try to get detailed pictures of the front and back of mine when I get home so that there is at least a reference. Pin #2 is labled on mine as "JP2" without any other markings although I was able to figure out the ground pins by looking at which two were linked together along with the ground plane on the bottom. I'll also look for any revision markings etc although I don't typically see those on cheap chinese boards.
I'm tempted to see if I can build an Arduino-based arcade interface since I stocked up on parts for embedded Arduino projects a few months ago (ATMega328PU's, 16mhz crystals, etc). It probably wouldn't be hard to make a serial version but USB usually requires a 2nd chip with Arduino (FTDI or another ATMega) so the cost literally doubles. Seeing that the identifying info is scraped off the micro-controller on the Xin-Mo, I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that it's an ATMega chip already.
MTPPC:
The markings are rubbed off my chip, too. I'm really not surprised by the variations because Chinese manufacturers steal just as much from eachother as the steal from the West. I also confirmed that my board's marking of JP2 is right next to the header's pin 2.
Yenome:
i got mine from GGG but it has less than 20 hrs played on it i could post pics of it if needed. the diagram that came with mine was spot on. my only problem is now im having issues with hyperspin. it lags really bad when i first run it and then the controls only control the main wheel not any emulator wheel.
MTPPC:
I'm using joytokey 3.7.4 and keyboard commands for hyperPin (not hyperSpin). It works fine, but I know recent MAME uses direct keyboard input and the joytokey and xpadder aps don't work with them. There's always something..
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