Whoa! Forced mode is nothing more than software.
I donāt know if those are directed at me, but what I meant was that a new console generation will cause new problems and a new board will be developed by someone. Such is the life of technology, especially when the arcade stick market is only strong during times of transition.
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The dream of having one Arcade working on current and previous generation consoles as well as retro consoles (retro via PS360+ or perhaps McCthulhu) will fade if the UD-USB canāt work with the Brook Universal Fighting Board just because thereās the silly absence of a forced mode. ;(
Iām confident UD can get t working. Heās already working PS4 and PāXB1 fw.
Iād heard of PS4 support development, but XboxOne too? This is nice, considering we donāt know if Brookās UFC chooses XboxOne mode for the UD-USBā¦ (though my hunch would be PS4 mode)
I havenāt released any updates yet, but I have preliminary (still needs some cleanup) support going for both PS4 & XBONE. Iāll have a look at the Brook board when I get it from Jasen.
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I have been doing some homework on what goes where when the board arrives. I have been all over and tried to write a rough guide along with some questions so I have a complete picture!
Here goesā¦
Punches , kicks and stick are all straight forward.
I am converting an xbox 360 madcatz fightstick pro so intend to use the front panel.
The front panel pcb is in 3 sections as follows:
CN4: D13LB, D10Y, D9X, D8B, Turbo, XGUILD, KGND
(Turbo is turbo, xguild is the xbox home button and KGND is ground)
CN5: R Stick,L Stick, D11LT, D12RT, D7A, D14RB
(not sure what this is for but I read everything is not required)
CN6: USBVCC , GND D3, D4, D5, D6
(USBVCC is power and the rest are the player leds and the ground)
What you need
CN5 can snipped out.
We will need Turbo, XGUILD and KGND from CN4 and all from CN5
Mapping to the Brooks Universal Fighting Board
Looking at the diagram that has already been posted : http://i.imgur.com/DWNHhVd.png
CN6
We put all the connections from CN6 into JC5 and run ground to any of the slots marked ground
CN4
XGUILD goes to ps4/xbox in J3
Turbo and KGND can go JC8 or take them to the J4 and put Turbo to TPKEY and KGND to GND for touchpad support!
Is this correct?
Can I just use the wires already connected to the PN connectors from the panel pcb and leave the ones I am not using or would I have to solder individual wires from the panel to the fightboard?
Also the can CN4 and CN6 share a common ground? I assume it is as, in the Akishop PS360 tutorials he just has one ground connected.
I notice that the brooks has got support for (DP, RS and LS) switch support, what ones on the top panel correspond to that?
Thanks!
yes to all of the above
except kgnd
thatās for the lock switch
if you use that as a common ground it will only work when itās unlocked
Okay so just use GND from CN6 (that will already be screwed to J3) and everything will work with the exception of the lock switch?
Thanks for the input
CN5:
R Stick - Right Stick switch
L Stick - Left Stick Switch
D11LT - Turbo LED Left Trigger
D12RT - Turbo LED Right Trigger
D7A - Turbo LED A button
D14RB - Turbo LED Right Button
Essentially the D* points are for the bank of LED lights for the Turbo. CN4 has the other buttons marked. The R Stick and L Stick points are for the RS/DP/LS switch.
So if I put R Stick and L stick in J7 on the fight board i will have the RS/DP/LS switch support?
Donāt know for sure. Depends on the boardās behavior. I was going to test it myself when I got the board.
The Brook Board depends on the top and bottom pin of that header to be grounded to switch to stick left or stick right. If neither pin is grounded, its D-Pad. I found that on the HORI VLX that switch does a lot of weird things, nothing as simple as the UFB logic. One pin grounded, one pin floating, one pin signal, and one was something else (I canāt remember what off the top of my head) and it all feeds back to a single pin on the MCU. Use a multimeter to determine what the switch is presenting and go from thereā¦
You can use any button for the turbo panel correct?
For the Brook Board, its a standard Momentary switch to activate it.
Jasen
Is that a standard sanwa or happ button?
It can be any momentary switch you want. I prefer Sanwa buttons over Happ.
Ok, so, I have mine already (thanks arcade shock! ā¦but only got one when i ordered twoā¦), and Iām having an issue. The engineer in me says test along the way, donāt do it all at once and find out you screwed up in the beginning, so, I ripped apart my old SF x T Mad Catz stick with a cerberus, and I soldered in the USB connection. Plugged it into my surface, lights up, windows 10 detects it, so far so good. I solder in the turbo key, and screw in the ground wire for it. Then I proceed to screw in up/down/left/right. Thatās where my problems start.
I plug in the board, and the stick appears as an xbox one controller for about 10 seconds, then disappears from windows. The blue LED light on the board is still lit, so I unplug/replug in and quickly get to properties and see if the stick directions register, and nothingā¦then it disappears in ten seconds. Just for kicks I also screwed down select/start and ground from the existing breadboard, and lo, same results.
Anything immediate come to mind as to what might be going wrong here? Also, should I break this off into another thread? And finally may not be able to respond until tomorrow night. Sleep and responsibilities and all.
What does it do on an XBOX? I didnāt see this issue at all on Windows7 nor my consoles during the testing. @GOGO.Zippy any thoughts?
This is a good thread for it as Iām sure the Mods donāt want a bunch of different threads for the same product.