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Title: Dreamcast wiring question..
Post by: Banacek on October 08, 2002, 11:04:20 pm
I was working on hacking a Dreamcast pad for my arcade cabinet. Now I got it all set up, but now the buttons are all acting as either up, left, or right. I was following the instructions on CD_Vision's site:

http://www.darkravenwind.com/cdvision/madcatz.htm

Well, the buttons are working, which surprised me. Just got to figure out what's wrong now..
Title: Re:Dreamcast wiring question..
Post by: Dave_K. on October 09, 2002, 12:31:20 pm
Use a Mutlimeter on "continuity (beep) test" to test your button wires (making sure none of them are also touching ground).  Then make sure all your grounds are really going to ground.  

Did you wire a single ground connection and daisy chain it?  What I do is before I actually solder on the pcb, I make sure the contact actually works as I think by grounding the connection while the game is on and watch to make sure the correct button or directional is pressed.

-Dave