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how are y'all hooking up DC with IPAC?
Lilwolf:
Get a 5volt powersupply and have the p360s get juice from that. Then you can have that in a seperate switch... (one switch for the monitor/p360s... One for the computer... One for the dreamcast...
Luxury:
Can anybody please post some pics of your diodes? right now i have swappable db25 cables for my DC, but if this works as good as everybody says it does, then i might have to switch over. thanks!
Frostillicus:
Well here's a highly technical :) diagram that illustrates how I used the diode method. The grounds all got hooked together with no diodes. Also, the IPAC needs to be on for this to work, which is probably just the way I have the grounds wired. That is no big deal since everything comes on with one power switch anyways and I use a vga box and audio box to switch between the PC and DC.
meta87:
Frosty I'm confused by your drawing (if thats possible)
So you solder a wire onto a dreamcast button. That wire connects to a diode. Then you run 2 wires from the other end? One to the ipac and one to the arcade button? Or just one to the Ipac?
Also, I'm confused about the ground. Where is the ground on the dreamcast controller?
Thanks :)
Frostillicus:
--- Quote from: meta87 on August 03, 2003, 01:12:47 am ---Frosty I'm confused by your drawing (if thats possible)
So you solder a wire onto a dreamcast button. That wire connects to a diode. Then you run 2 wires from the other end? One to the ipac and one to the arcade button? Or just one to the Ipac?
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Well you will have a wire from the arcade button, and one from the dreamcast. So you solder them so the diode only affects the dreamcast buttons.
I'm actually using the metal end from the diode to go straight into the ipac, and wire the 'NO' contact on the arcade button to that part. I only like 1 wire going into the terminal - it would look waaaay too cluttered with all of my wires from say, player1_joy_up (there's 4 of them with DC) going into one terminal.
--- Quote ---Also, I'm confused about the ground. Where is the ground on the dreamcast controller?
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The ground is some just some part of the PCB where scrape off and can solder to. Look for a large area of real estate on the upper 2 corners. There's a link on the Game Consoles area of this site (on the left) to a pic of how to do it on a madcatz controller.
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