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Pelican Universal Real Arcade Stick Problems, please help
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krick:

--- Quote from: struby on February 27, 2006, 11:21:57 pm ---May I ask out of curiosity if anyone knows, why is it that this needs an xbox adapter, what is the difference, what I mean is, why doesn't my PS2 converter work, why wouldn't a gamecube one, and why does an xbox one, and is anyone else pretty sure that will solve my problem?

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From what I understand, the XBox controllers are really USB but with a different connector.  So if you use an XBox adapter, it isn't translating the output to PS2 format, then back to USB.  It's basically a pass-through device.  I imagine that the PS2 adapter uses more power too.
infiniteomega:
If you do a search on the shoryuken.com forums you'll find some more info about the problem.  I didn't go searching through them just now, but here's some more info based on my personal experience with the stick.

As I (and others) have said, it seems to be an xbox stick first, ps2/gamecube stick second.  It doesn't even seem to get power like normal ps2 pads when connected to a ps2.  If you look around on shoryuken you'll notice people talking about how they lost the rumble function on their ps2's because of this stick.  Same thing happened to me.  The stick gets it's power through the vibration circuit and I found out that my normal pads had no rumble when my stick suddenly stopped working.  Since I modded my ps2 to play imports, I wound up bypassing a fuse (not good, I know) in order to get the rumbles back in my normal controllers, and this stick to work again.  I'm willing to bet the guy in the link johnthebomb linked to had the same issue.

This problem probably stems from the fact that it's an xbox controller with ps2 adapter on one board and has some voltage regulation problems (which is probably why they say not to plug it in after the console is on).  Who knows.
struby:
Well I am pretty convinced, just one more thing I am wondering at this point, will I be ok getting a Super Joybox 11 with 4 ports and using 4 joysticks, or will it not have enough power, will 4 joysticks work at all, even with 2 double or 4 single converters, just some last questions before I order, thanks guys, any other suggestions would be great.
struby:
I'd like to order a joybox soon so if anyone can answer my above questions soon I would appretiate it.
Spaz Monkey:
Well, I tried to connect my stick using a PS2 to USB converter (kikky joy) and troubleshooting said that it was wanting like 4xx% of the USB port's "attention".  How the heck could it ask for 4xx%?!?!?! :o

With that being said, I have a Pelican stick for sale :angel:
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