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KADE miniArcade 2.0 beta release
gazz292:
Yes, the bus sim (omsi2) accepts as many gamepads / joysticks as you have connected to the computer it seems, so using 2 minimus 32's with KADE running the 'USB/HID Buttons Only' program, and having upto 20 buttons connected to each board should do the job.
And the 26 buttons with the shifted ones on another board in the Ibis unit will handle all the buttons from that,
Then an arduino in each unit handeling the LCD stuff, , plus the 2 other arduino's that handle the dashboard indicator lights and gauges.... good job i have lots of USB ports on my simulator PC :)
As for playing with the source code, unfortunately i can barely type sentances with the correct spelling into the arduino IDE to get anything to work (add 4 lines of code and i get 6 errors i need to correct when i compile)
So playing with python is not something i think i could handle,
Tho i would love to learn to be able to do programming on the computer, if i could id re-write the .dll and that which gets the data out of the bus simulator and sends it to the arduino's, as there's a few issues and the writer of it has moved onto better things,
But i think that stuff is written in delphi or something, and i only know the extreme basics of C from using aruino's.
DiktatorShadaloo:
Hello all, First of all thank you very much for your work!
I have a question regarding the RJ45 pinout cable for the Wii, in the image below it says that 2 and 3 correspond to VCC, do I have to connect both cables to VCC or just one of them?
Also it says it is 3.3V however in the schematic for Arduino Leonardo the VCC corresponds to the 5v pin. Do I have to change it to the 3.3v pin or do I leave it like that?
PL1:
--- Quote from: DiktatorShadaloo on May 17, 2021, 08:15:13 pm ---I have a question regarding the RJ45 pinout cable for the Wii, in the image below it says that 2 and 3 correspond to VCC, do I have to connect both cables to VCC or just one of them?
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Bruno developed and tested the pinouts for these cables.
Looks like both wires should be connected to the VCC pin because his notes say "2 and 3", not "2 or 3".
- For an "or" example, see the ground connection for GameCube.
--- Quote from: DiktatorShadaloo on May 17, 2021, 08:15:13 pm ---Also it says it is 3.3V however in the schematic for Arduino Leonardo the VCC corresponds to the 5v pin. Do I have to change it to the 3.3v pin or do I leave it like that?
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Connect the Wii connector pins 2 and 3 to the Arduino 5v (VCC/"orange 8") pin, not the 3.3v pin.
In this case, the VCC pin is being used as a 3.3v power input from the Wii to the 32u4 AVR board.
Remember that the board can't be powered by USB 5v when you're using the RJ-45 to Wii cable.
--- Quote from: User Guide, pg 7 ---WARNING: Do not connect miniArcade 2.0 to a computer via USB cable and to a console via RJ-45 adapter cable at the same time -- 5v from USB will damage the 3.3v console circuits.
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Bruno's firmware recognizes the Wii <==> "RJ-45" connections during boot-up and auto-configures the board to translate arcade control inputs into properly formatted Wii command outputs.
Scott
DiktatorShadaloo:
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Thank you very much! it works like a charm. :applaud:
gazz292:
Is there anything that will allow rotary encoders to output keyboard key strokes as a HID keyboard?
they usually seem to be mapped as mice etc, but i need a few rotary encoders to send A key presses when rotated one way, and D presses when rotated the other,
i know this can be done with an arduino, but i really need something with a GUI to program it, as i will need to mess about with the key press duration a lot and it would be a lot easier to use something like kade mapper, freejoy etc, but they all output as gamepads it seems.