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zobook:

I dont know if someone has made somethin like this, but i hope i made my gamepad hack this way and somebody else find it interesting to use.

I see a lot of people doing nice and clean work with the cables, all tied togethers in groups, following clear paths and so (they usually go for i-pac or similar) but when comes to gamepad hacks is usually a pcb just sitting there at the bottom of the control's box. What i have in mind is doing something like a "box" for the hack, so is secured and protected from accidental ripping and is easy to (for example) move to another place like if you decide to make a full cabinet, just unscrew the cables and are ready to go.

This is the "lower plate"
Is a 3mm MDF, the boxes on each corner are wooden blocks with pre-drilled holes for screws.



This is the "top plate"
Also 3mm mdf, is for covering the PCB and the wires, has a cut for easy acces to the output cables and is secured with screws to the bottom plate. Has a "label" just to make it look more "professional" (and is a good reminder too)



The top and bottom screwed together



The PCB in the firs image is held in place with those black boxes you see around it, who actually looks like this:



The lower plate may include a couple of "flaps" to the sides to secure the "box" to the CP using screws.

Just an idea
Thanks for reading


northerngames:

I used a radio shack project box there only a few bucks and instead of playing with terminals screwing/unscrewing wires for hours figuring what goes where each time you swap from arcade to gamecontroller mine go to a DB-25 male and runs to a db-25 switch box.

this way instead of playing with tons of wire you just turn a switch.

if it need's to be unhooked for some reason it just unplugs and plugs in where there is no playing with wires or tools after it is all completed.

 

zobook:


--- Quote from: northerngames on January 05, 2008, 12:46:41 am ---instead of playing with terminals screwing/unscrewing wires for hours figuring what goes where each time you swap from arcade to gamecontroller
--- End quote ---

But i'm not talking about swappable controllers. Just say if you make a CP and then later on time (when you have space, money, skills) decide to make a full cabinet you have this "box" when you just screw the wires coming from the buttons on the new fixed-to-the-cabinet CP. Of course, if you are swapping continuouslly, your idea is really good, but that's not the case.

Besides, the only "real" console i have is a clone of "Nintendo Famicom" (known in Argentina as Family Fame) with fixed controllers so don't expect too much arcade<->console swapping :D



Not exactly the one i have, mine has a 3-position switch over the buttons, meaning turbo off/low/high. It comes with SMBros but for some more pesos i get "Adventure Island III".

zobook:

This is the pad i buy, is really cheap (around U$S 6) but has 10 action buttons and turbo + autofire functions. what a deal!!



The pad, out of the blister



This is the importat part, the PCB. I just throw away those two "things" that serve no purpose to me :)



The PCB mounted on the MDF base, with some cables already soldered



I put the top plate and the label just to see how it looks



The final result



Now i have to build and wire the "real" controller (already have the buttons and joystick) then i put this thing inside, conect some cables and presto!!!


Fozzy The Bear:

Very nice! neat work!!

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

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