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mourix:
Yesss! This makes me happy. Transatlantic troubleshouting worked somehow. Can't wait to see it finished :burgerking:

Now the final part is to test the turbo modes, but those are less critical.

pbj:
Couldn't arouse any interest from a prolific video game blogger that's made controllers to play single games before... but I tried.

Here's my second swing at this. I couldn't find a 330ohm isolated array at a decent price, so I went with 4 individual resistors on their side and heat shrink wrapped. Otherwise else should be exactly according to spec.

Budai for scale.

:cheers:

mourix:
Aww, well you did go all out. I like the finishing touches with the colored headers and heat shrinked resistors.

pbj:
Bought one of these....

It's some PS3/PC joystick called "RockSoul" and there's virtually no trace of it on the internet. But some guy on ebay is selling them CIB for $25 shipped.

On the inside, it looks suspiciously like a stripped down Qanba Drone.

Anyway, snipped everything out of the joystick. (who the hell needs a direct input controller?) Left pigtail wires in case I wanted to restore it back. Select and Run are wired to those two little buttons at the top right. I - VI are in a SF2 layout. The rightmost buttons will eventually be made into redundant Run/Select buttons for those "three button" PCE games. I've got 16MM toggle buttons coming in the mail to fill those five holes. That will cover mode, slow motion, and turbo I and turbo II

So everything is working great for SF2, but I'm having some weird, weird issues with the PCB. Basically when I plug it in, it's throwing a Select input at the console. And seems to do so randomly. If I boot it up into CD mode, it goes to the memory management screen and I can't get out of it. I can't control my Everdrive clone menu with it. But I can hit select to start the most recently loaded game. When I play Strip Fighter 2, I can control the menus and character select screens perfectly. In an actual fight, my character does nothing. But I can pause!

Not entirely sure what's going on. Perhaps a ceramic capacitor between select and ground?

mourix:
Looking really nice, just a shame with the input situation. I guess double checking every component and even measuring the bussed resistor pack is the start.

What test equipment do you own? I would order a PCB to try it myself but I don't own a PC Engine...

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