everything (stick, buttons etc) is connected to the 360 pcb by ribbon cable with connectors, so that part is simple.
Also, you don’t have to do anything with the button or stick wiring, it will go back where it originally was when you disconnected everything. All you have to do is connect the points on the 360pcb/cthulhu/imp with your own wire were the diagram shows. Other than that, the only thing is removing the usb wire connection from the 360 pcb and connecting it to the imp, which you said in #4
We’re getting to the level of too many beginner questions in a short period of time… Let me remind you that if you don’t have the knowledge or skills to do a dual mod, then myself or someone else in the trading forum can do it for you.
This purpose of this thread isn’t too teach someone every little basic element to soldering or modding.
Ok heres the latest update on the problem i mentioned before. My stick has complete and perfect functionality on pc and ps3 but only works with 360 when the cable is plugged in before the console intially powers on. What do u guys think the problem is?
edit: apon further investigation it turns out that i can get it to work while the 360 is already turned on i just got to unplug/replug it in before the te is detected(often its like 3-4 times). It does not behave this way in windows or ps3 works fine every time.
I have everything hooked up according to bombermans MC Cthulu guide to a TE PCB, but I am not getting the results I want. When I hook it up to the computer while in RS mode, it will recognize the TE, but when switching it back to DP for the Cthulu it will not. Here are some pics below of the MC Cthulu and the Imp board. I am assuming its not the imp board because it powers the TE PCB just fine.
The wire in the pic above thats sticking out from the bottom is just a loose wire, its not hooked/soldered to anything. Also, the cut wires in the 1st row were from PS2 wiring which I decide to remove and just use it’s PS3 functionality ONLY.
Here are pics of the front and back of the imp board, but again, I don’t think its the problem
The wires are a mess I know, I only have 22ga copper wire, and everything was real stiff
Funny thing was though was that I tried hooking up a USB cable into the MC Cthulu after wiring up everything under the assumption the Cthulu should ATLEAST be recognized by the computer when I plugged directly from the Cthulut to a computer. No luck with that either, nothing gets recognized. Ugh, I hope I didn’t mess up anything on the Cthulu
Anyone have any ideas/solutions?
Also, while looking at the “USB only” points on the MC Cthulu, I ended up breaking the diode there trying to solder the points together. This happened AFTER I got it working for the 360, but not for PS3
What kind of diode is there and where can I get one to replace it?
Firstly, don’t use wire that’s too thick for the job.
Secondly and most importantly, you have wayyyy too much exposed wire on all of your wires. You should expose 2-3mm when soldering to small points on a PCB.
However your pictures are excellent. Good job there.
Anyway, what’s that wire connecting to on the bottom center of the Cthulhu?
That wire is just a loose one, it shouldn’t be connected to anything.
I just ordered some 30 AWG Kynar wire from ebay. If it doesn’t work, I’ll prob unsolder and resolder everything using the 30awg wire.
Damn 22ga’s, so damn stiff
Once Evo is over I’ll prob go back to work on it and try to troubleshoot it some more.
Still confused why even plugging the Cthulu directly into the computer still won’t recognize it. Hoping I didn’t short anything (that is before I broke the diode )
I had a similar problem and it turned out the usb cuthulu data wires were not making proper contact to the imp. So i resolder the contacts and every thing worked as far as both consoles being detected and playable.
Well, then shouldn’t hooking up a USB cable directly from the cthulu to the PC work (for testing to see if the Cthulu is even in working condition)? Or is the USB jack connection now controlled by the imp instead of the usb jack itself since I have it all hooked up to the imp?
Just think of the imp as a switch the cuthulu and the madcatz pcb will work independently so yes I would try to hook the cuthulu up to the pc by it self to make sure it’s working. After you have done that and the cuthulu is working I would suspect it’s the data connection which are the two points going from the cuthulu to the imp( white and greenn) like I said before. If the cuthlu does not work then you probably dont have your 5v(from the madcatzpcb) properly connected to the cuthulu.
