Firstly my friend asked me to fix a mas stick for him so I said no prob without really probing te problem. After I did I found out it was a mas stick with only the chip no pcb. Now I have never delt with a chip only. Does anyone here have a pinout of the chip. From what I understand is that it is unwired from the the buttons/directions, hopefully this.Or if its unwired from the chip altogether, hopefully not this. I dont have any kind of mas to trace back the wiring from . I would assume its the same chip that they use in regular mas with the PCBs. Hopefully this works out fairly easy.
If it is just the chip that would prolly be cheaper, well not cheaper but more space saving than using PCBs for the DC. Does anyone know what chip it is and where we could get some???
Firstly my friend asked me to fix a mas stick for him so I said no prob without really probing te problem. After I did I found out it was a mas stick with only the chip no pcb. Now I have never delt with a chip only. Does anyone here have a pinout of the chip. From what I understand is that it is unwired from the the buttons/directions, hopefully this.Or if its unwired from the chip altogether, hopefully not this. I dont have any kind of mas to trace back the wiring from . I would assume its the same chip that they use in regular mas with the PCBs. Hopefully this works out fairly easy.
If it is just the chip that would prolly be cheaper, well not cheaper but more space saving than using PCBs for the DC. Does anyone know what chip it is and where we could get some???[/Q]
pinout is proprietary, just mark what is wired to what and rewire it based on that.
You can’t really buy the chips, no one really sells them. You’ll have to either find someone who can make a bunch for you (e.g. the guys at mas, plus some other people, can’t name any right now…) or you can make them yourself… The latter option, considering your calling the microcontroller in the MAS stick a “chip” may not be the best choice for you. Just stick to hacking PCBs, it’s the cheapest way, trust me.
edit: Not that I’m making fun of you for calling it a chip, that’s perfectly reasonable thing to call it.
Well Im doing this for someone thru a friend so I dont really have the optin I guess and since its short on time since hes coming from outta town today. this was a last minute thing. So im trying to do the best I can. I would rather put in a DC pcb, even the OFFICIAL PAD. Im sure he plays marvel only so the lag in the triggers does not affect gameplay. Well at least not mine. Other games its bothersome tho. What I ment to say is that Im not sure if he would approve of me putting in a pad so I wanna keep whats in there
And yeah I thought it was a CHIP but I guess not. I thought u might be able to pick this up at an online store. And how would u make one or a hundred… HEHE
Well thanks Chipper but I can hack the pads no prob. I dont know if he would be cool with that tho ya know. ill wait and c what Im getting into when he brings it before I decide i guess.
So whats up with those CHIPS. How do u make em and whatnot this is very intersting but Im prolly getting myself into more than I can handle tho?
The chips in them are microprocessors. I remember a thread not to long ago that had pictures, and he gave me the part number on the chip which you prolly have in front of you. On that one, it was an SX brand microprocessor. These chips are easy to find and order (and can likely be sampled for free), but the code inside the chip is the bitch. (IIRC these microprocessors are very different from the older PCB’s they used; still microprocessors, but different brand) I haven’t had one personally to check, but I’d bet money that the code protect flag is set, which means it can’t be read out of the chip without some serious forensic hardware. If its not set, then just plugging the chip into a programmer and it can be read.
You can find the pinout of the microprocessor just by googling for a datasheet for that chip, but it won’t make any damn sense without the code. Check all the wires for breaks, and if you can’t find any, you have to swap it out for a different PCB. If you do go this route, I’ll paypal a buck to you if you mail me that chip, on the off chance I can read the program off of it.
Well the stick is outta my hands for now. My friend was passing thru town and wanted to c if I could fix it during his short stay. Yeah I did look at the chip but I dont remember the #s on it. The only wires that were broken were 3 wires from the cord to the system and I didnt want to chance frying the pad or the DC if I wired them incorrectly. He went with installing a DC pad that hes gonna attempt. thanks for the help anyway. HHHMMMMM I wonder if I could get that code and make my own chips in the futu:arazz: re…