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Shieldwolf:
JR76,

that sounds amazing!!!!
Can you send me pics and or directions for dummies?

Dave_K.:

--- Quote from: Shieldwolf on November 19, 2003, 02:08:47 pm ---JR76,

that sounds amazing!!!!
Can you send me pics and or directions for dummies?

--- End quote ---

I'd wait until he finishes it...others have had problems using switchboxes in this manner.  Hope he does succeed though.

jr76:
If I get it to work, I will post pics and directions. I don't see what the problem would be though, from what I can tell the switcher box isn't anything but that, an unpowered switcher. It's just making a physical connection, the same as unplugging a 25 pin connector and plugging it into a different one. Am I wrong?

jr76:
Connecting to the parallel box should be no problem. I was out of town last week and all my parts I ordered came in so I was able to do a quick test this weekend.

I soldered up a dreamcast controller and connected the wires to the swticher. I used Printer cables and it didn't worked. I don't know why, but here is my theory.

When you strip open a parallel printer cable, there are about 20 stranded cables on the inside. I mapped out these wires to there respective pin by using a continuity tester. All the printer cables I striped had the same color scheme so I assumed that the wires would map to the same pin. I was wrong, this isn't the case! For example, I had on cable where the brown wire mapped to pin 5. On a bother cable, the brown wire mapped to pin 15.

So I wired up my on db25 connectors. I was in a hurry so I just did button A on the DC controller. I set up another db25 connector and hooked a button up to it. Connected the db25's to the switch box, put in a copy of Street Fighter X, and it worked! Ryu was kicking everytime I pushed the button.

Conclusion, if people were having problems with the parallel cable switchers, I don't think it was due to the switches, I think it was because of the cables! I will be soldering my own db25 connectors instead of mapping 8 different sets of printer cables!

Sephroth57:
cool im glad youre making progress, im interested in doing this but im a newbie at this so hopefully you can make some easy directions or you would make them and sell em to me =)

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