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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: LightningBolt on November 08, 2014, 06:36:04 am
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I received this today but I can't get it to work. I have it plugged in to my Sanwa JLF joystick and there is a red light on the board but nothing works? Is there a trick to this?
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Did it come pre-wired for the JLF or did you have to make the connections to the JLF yourself?
The reason I ask is that to save a few pennies, some vendors ship the JLF with a wiring harness other than the original one.
This other wiring harness doesn't have the proper color wires in the right order on the connector.
Your ground wire (black) should be the last pin on the connector toward the outside edge of the joystick base.
If the black wire is somewhere in the middle of your connector and you're trying to use it as a ground, it's wired wrong.
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I bought the JLF 10 years ago and it came with a wire harness that works, but the encoder came with its own harness:
(http://i.imgur.com/uMyteJW.jpg)
I tried it both ways, and I think the ground is the pin on the very right.
The only thing that remotely functioned was Up on my PS3 and then I couldn't get it to work again later. Mame doesn't recognize it (but the PC recognizes the encoder).
Tried it with buttons now too, no response.
Also there is a red light on under something that says D2.
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Ok update, it works on my PS3 now, and it works on my desktop, but not my laptop. I don't know what's going on grr.
On a sidenote, now I REALLY realize why a dedicated 4-way is so important in pac-man. Playing that in 8-way mode is frustrating.