Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Consoles => Topic started by: juan_caliente on January 17, 2006, 10:25:52 am
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I built an arcade controler for my dreamcast this weekend to play some MVC2. My DC came with the composite cable and I wanted the s-video cable. Feeling cocky from just soldering up the controls I decided to use the pinout on gamesx to add a s-video cable to my DC. I soldered the two grounds in the cable together and then soldered them to pin 16, ground, then I soldered L and C to their respective pins, 11 and 12 I beleive. When I turned on the DC, black screen and no sound, rechecked my solder joints and my caps I put in line, I had the caps backwards so reveresed them, I used 10v caps by the way, 220uf and 1uf. Still nothing so I unsoldered the 3 wires and tried the original cable, nothing there either. Now I am confused, I might have broken the cable when I took it apart, but I don't think I cross soldered any wires. Could I have damaged the DC by having the caps hooked up backwards?
Thank you,
John
**Note to self, no more typing till I have a cup of coffee. :P
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I built an arcade controler for my dreamcast this weekend to play some MVC2. My DC came with the composite cable and I wanted the s-video cable. Feeling cock from just soldering up the controls I decided to use the pinout on gamesx to add a s-video cable to my DC. I soldered the two grounds in the cable together and then soldered them to pin 16, ground, then I soldered L and C to their respective pins, 11 and 12 I beleive. When I turned on the DC, black screen and no sound, rechecked my solder joints and my caps I put in line, I had the caps backwards so reveresed them, I used 10v caps by the way, 220uf and 1uf. Still nothing so I unsoldered the 3 wires and tried the original cable, nothing there either. Now I am confused, I might have broken the cable when I took it apart, but I don't think I cross soldered any wires. Could I have damaged the DC by having the caps hooked up backwards?
Thank you,
John
Heh
Maybe this belongs in Everything Else. ;D
Checking the cable itself should be pretty easy. Just use a multimeter to check continuity.
Then if that checks out ok... Well then any advice I give would be out of my bumm, so I will refrain. :)