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Title: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast?*port fried*(hack analog help*)
Post by: Otraotaku on February 22, 2005, 04:06:54 pm

I was testing a prototype Joy to analog on my dreamcast and blew the ports... I dont have anything for my arcade now to work with... please anyone... help.. if not, anyone know where to buy cheap parts that can be sent quick? ,TJB

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: DarkKobold on February 22, 2005, 04:24:38 pm

You can fix that.

http://devcast.dcemulation.com/mods/repair/repair.php

Simplest fix on the planet.

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: Otraotaku on February 22, 2005, 04:36:52 pm

you expect me to solder a resistor onto my port??    :o

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: Gunstar Hero on February 22, 2005, 04:44:09 pm

No better time to learn than now!  ;D

Some basic soldering tips!

Be careful not to touch. Hot.

And the smoke is bad for you, so work in a well ventilated area.

A clean iron is a hot iron!

Have fun!

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: SkateDetroit on February 22, 2005, 05:05:54 pm

Fire bad!

You can do it. It's like gluing, but you have to heat it up first?

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: Sephroth57 on February 22, 2005, 06:31:46 pm

well you got nothing to lose, its already broken =p

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: Otraotaku on February 22, 2005, 07:23:43 pm

aww... why me....  ???

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: DarkKobold on February 22, 2005, 07:33:15 pm

Its not on the port. This is like, isolated and easy.

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: daywane on February 22, 2005, 10:05:41 pm

Use a 15 what solder iron . You can fix it  and rember the smoke is bad (lol)

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: Otraotaku on February 23, 2005, 11:44:14 am

so you guys are just saying that i overloaded the resistor on the port and i have to solder a new one on? thats it? ^.^ well.... i guess its not so bad... just where do i get one... lmao...

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: xcalibur on February 23, 2005, 04:46:50 pm

after clicking on the link they provided in the tutortial, you get an error message. I cleaned up the link and found this resistor:
http://www.mouser.com/index.cfm?handler=displayproduct&lstdispproductid=325506&e_categoryid=21&e_pcodeid=65000

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: Otraotaku on February 23, 2005, 10:26:04 pm

well tonight i went to radio shack and bought a 10 ohm resistor... Im going to solderit on tommorow night and see if it works... ^.^ i hope it doesnt matter

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: Otraotaku on February 23, 2005, 10:28:21 pm

By the way anyone selling direct Dreamcast Analog hacks? I need 2...

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: cholin on February 24, 2005, 11:13:42 pm

Just telling you, make sure you look into solderring quickly before you try it.  You need to get a little solder on the tip of the iron and make sure when you heat it up that you touch both the wire AND the place youre solderring to.  Only do it for like 3 seconds TOTAL :)

Title: Re: anyone willing to donate a used/Broken Dreamcast? **port fried*
Post by: Otraotaku on February 25, 2005, 11:35:14 am

okay, well thanks guys, i ended up removing both and soldering two new resistors onto the Controller port... ^.^ works great... also now my problem is trying to hack analog... =/ with already ruining 2 resistors.. -.-? anyone wanna share with me the secret of how to solder leads onto analog?!!? is it just me or does it seem that you must solder two wires per button, onto two leads on the cherry switches? ^.^