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Newbie...Need Diagrams of DC & PSX Controllers
Hellfromabove:
Hi I am kind of a newbie at this. Don't get me wrong I have been on your website before and all and checked out the forum, it's great. Well I wanted to rewire an official Dreamcast + official regular Playstation controller together on a joystick with an 8-way joystick and 7 buttons for the DC (6 action + start) and 10 for the PSX(8 action + start + select), the buttons on the joystick are microswitch. Well I know this could be done because my friends brother has 2 of these and I see them for sale online. I tried doing this without experience with my DC trying to figure out the spots to wire the wires for the buttons but ended up blowing the DC ports :'( . So what I am begging for
toilet:
I'm seeing double from all that 3d green text.
Mameworld has a page at http://www.mameworld.net/pc2jamma/arc_dc4.html for hacking a DC controller to a JAMMA cab, about half way down the page you'll see a picture that may be some help.
Best advice I can offer for the Playstation is get a cheap 3rd party PS1 controller and not an official sony one for various reasons.
Are you wiring these together, like one stick to both controllers? If so I remember people having some problems doing this with a DC and an IPAC. You may need to put a switch between the two.
hyiu:
I did hack 2 original psx pads... and have a couple of pics on it... you can try the following link and check out the pics... (sorry... still working on the words part...) and also, too busy building the cab, so, really no time now...
I think they are correct... original psx pads' solder points are kinda small... and you need to scratch out that thing covering the contact.... (I was told it will be easier if you solder a 3rd party cheapy psx pad...)
After I did all the soldering, I tested it, and confirmed it works, and then I put elmer's glue all over the circuit board... that way, the soldering connections will not come off easily.... (BUT IMPORTANT !!... once you put the glue on, do NOT test until the glue is COMPLETELY dry !!! cos when its wet, the wet glue will conduct electricity and will short your whole circuit !!! you'll know when its dry since elmer's glue becomes transparent when dry... and is milky color (not transparent when wet... usually I give it 48 hrs to be completely sure.....)
last but not least... on the original psx pad, the trigger button has wires connect to a little separate circuit board... you can just use those wire, for ground, l1, l2, r1, r2, no need for soldering for those....
http://geocities.com/hyiu/Arcade/pics/
good luck...
hyiu:
sorry... 1 little thing... can you use normal fonts next time ?? its really hard to read....
rei:
This is more of a question to hyiu. The case on that psx conversion looks nice and clean. I have tried other "commercial" sticks (MAS, CigarBob, and am now looking into a SAVstick), but they all don't have that clean look that you have by building that enclosure. Everyone says that if I want that clean look I should build it myself, so now I too am on the road to building a DC arcade control. I like what you did, but I have a few questions.
Are those ethernet cables? If so, what do they plug into, and how did you build the connection that they plug into?
I am going to probrably build a box like your's except with a hole to plug a vmu into. Where did you get the materials for the box?
Thanks for sharing your work.
(by the way, you can read HFA's post easier if you select the text...)