I understand about the clickity microswitches.
PS/2 Male | DB-9 Female
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3 | Shield (10)
5 | 6
1 | 5
4 | 2 , 9
PS/2 Male | DB-9 Female
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3 | Shield (10)
5 | 6
1 | 5
4 | 2 , 3, 9
PS/2 Male | DB-9 Female
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3 | Shield (10)
5 | 6
1 | 5
4 | 1 , 2, 9
I built a connector last night following this pin map table and it works, but I only if I hook a keyboard up to the pass-through extentsion.
Also, pressing an x-arcade button does not repeat, but pressing a keyboard key does (in notepad.) Not sure what I am doing wrong.
Ok. I thought it was supposed to work without a keyboard in PS/2 mode; couldn't remember.I built a connector last night following this pin map table and it works, but I only if I hook a keyboard up to the pass-through extentsion.
This is correct behavior. Roguejedi, might this be your issue?
Also, pressing an x-arcade button does not repeat, but pressing a keyboard key does (in notepad.) Not sure what I am doing wrong.
Try it in MAME and see what it does.
Ok... since this is the only source for this information that I could find on the web... I'll add to this very old post! ;)Hi there, i have an x-arcade without any of the cables, including the one from the pcb to serial. So I'd like to have a diagram on how to wire directly from the pcb connector to usb and ps2 without the serial connector in the middle. Can anyone help? I have the usb pcb version, it's marked pcb ver3.
I have a X-Arcade dual (2 player) and I recently wanted to hook it up again but misplaced the PS/2 keyboard part of the adapter (female serial to male PS/2). So it seemed logical to try to build this with an old keyboard for the PS/2 end and a serial cable. Problem 1: the keyboard did not have all the wires in the cable to the PS/2 end. Lesson learned and I just cut off the end to solder the wires from the serial cable directly to the end.
So all I needed to know was which wires go to what pin. With the magic of searching, I found this thread. I tried both the diagrams above (they aren't the same) and neither worked. The red light comes on the X-Arcade, but I get a keyboard error on boot and no lights on the keyboard. :censored:
So this led me to try one last desperate act... I searched harder and found the original adapter.
Curiosity got the better of me and I decided to trace the wires. Here are my results from the actual X-Arcade Serial to PS/2 Adapter cable:
(http://i578.photobucket.com/albums/ss223/travandalex/Misc/100_7774.jpg)