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sandman235:

Hey guys, long time lurker/first time poster here.

I am building a mame cab for my friends son and I am all done except for the only part I am having trouble with: The Coin Door.

I was not aware of IPac when I was doing this build (This is my first one) so I went with the X-Arcade stick for the ease of USB plugin. He really, REALLY wants a coin door on his machine what works so when his friends come over they can all use tokens. The coin door I bought is a Coin Mechanisms Inc. I also had a spare Madcatz 360 USB controller laying around and read somewhere that I could connect the two and map the buttons to my FE to use as the coin buttons.

Well, as you can see by the pics I have no ideal what I am doing. I could really use some help as his birthday party is very soon. Thanks in advance.






javeryh:

your soldering looks... off.  I think the points you need to solder to are the little circles on either side of the button (one is NO and the other would be ground).  I've never done something like that before though so hopefully someone else will chime in.

sandman235:

No, my soldering looks like garbage  :lol

That seems like it makes sense but yea hopefully someone can help. I have no clue what to do.

Vigo:


--- Quote from: sandman235 on August 19, 2011, 04:24:23 pm ---No, my soldering looks like garbage  :lol

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 :laugh2: I have been there....yeah it is garbage, but the garbage soldering gets better with practice.  :cheers:


I personally have not hacked a gamepad, so I might end up corrected here. Each of the circles you soldiered on is, as javeryh pointed out, two sides of the connection. When you push down on a gamepad button, it puts a conductive material over the both halves of the circle and completes the circuit.

You will need to solder on wire to either side of the connection on the circle. Then each of those wires to either lead on the microswitch. I can't tell if that gamepad has a common ground, so you may need to solder 2 wires for each button, so 4 wires total.


My advice is to first remove all solder from your gamepad...then try soldiering a wire to each of the "mickey mouse ears" on the circle. Be careful to cross over to the other half. (Edit: I mean remove the solder you added, not all solder).





HaRuMaN:

Yeah, you've shorted both of those buttons you've soldered to.

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