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| crashdmj:
Wow, if this works someone is gonna have to dumb it down for me and my 4 player panel. LOL ;D |
| Nightfalls:
Hmm after reading all this I think I'll buy a cheap PSX pad and hack it. I already have 2 psx-dc adaptors and 2 psx-usb adaptors. They all work fine: no problems of blocking and perfect response with absolutelly no delay. For my new control panel I'll use 6 buttons for the action and 4 buttons for extra features: coin, start, etc. I think a psx pad is the best choice. First I thought of buying an ipac + dreamcast pad, but it's not worth for a 1 player control panel, although the ipac is such a fantastic piece of hardware and I'd really like to have one. |
| radiator:
right, just got my diodes, wired everything up..... .....perfect! i'm doing it like this: the anode (end with black stripe) on the diode needs to be pointing AWAY from the DC pad... i used 5w zener diodes (cost about 6p each) |
| CthulhuLuke:
Hmm.. that's interesting, I'm glad you got it to work. On my brother's Mas stick, it was originally wired to a dreamcast interface, but I took the liberty of hacking in a PSX pad, and had the DC stealing voltage problem, so I wired up a SPDT switch between the two grounds, and it works almost flawlessy, except the turbo sometimes turns on, which would definitely indicate to me that all the buttons were suddenly pressed. So a 5V diode seems to do it, i think one of us needs to write this down in the BYOAC interface section to help out other people in the same situation. I wonder if my dad has any 5v diodes, my guess is he does. -Thanks for the conclusion to the DC and Ipac wiring dilemma *however you spell that* -Luke Oh btw, whats the rating on those diodes you used? |
| crashdmj:
Any good place to buy em? |
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