Official 'Kitty' class boards thread

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So I got my Kitty yesterday, and decided I would start the project and spend the rest of the week on it. …then I finished it only a couple hours later. This is an amazing project you got here toodles, brilliant design easy to use, maximum reward. Thanks!

Finished the RJ-45 version, works PC, PS3, 360, and PS2 so far, and I will continue making system cables to get maximum usability. Strange note, the turbo LEDs don’t light up on button presses on PS2 (joystick lights work), but they do on 360 and PC, bit odd but no big deal.

Thanks again Toodles, you are awesome! Might even buy another for my other stick when I get money ^.^

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Glad you like it. Tell your friends what you like, and tell me any parts you don’t like so I can see about fixing it.

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Everything is great, I have a gamecube wire now, a ps2 wire, a usb wire for 360 pc and ps3, and an original xbox wire. The only strange things, ps2 turbo LEDs don’t light up on button presses, and xbox directionals don’t light up the guide. Not big deals, just figuring I should mention it.

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The PS2 turbo led’s not lighting isn’t that big of a suprise; the PSX provides 3.3ish volts instead of 5 volts like everything else.
The directionals not working on Xbox shouldnt be that way. I’ll look into it.

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I’ve had this same experience. Is the 3.3 volts the same culprit for the directional LEDs on guide to be dimmer than on the PS3???

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When playing on a PS2/PSX? Absolutely.

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Needs more FS VX!

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Subscribed. I might snag another TE just to work with this board. Maybe finally have that multi console stick I’ve been wanting for a while.

Nice job as always, Toodles!

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I haven’t made any console cables yet, but it seems so ridiculously easy now with the Kitty board.

  • $56 shipped for Kitty
  • $25 shipped for Neutrik RJ45 + passthrough cable

Then all you need are the console cables, which you can buy or make yourself. I played the SF EX series on a MC Cthulhu TE and it is so much more fun. Can’t wait to see what Toodles comes up with next!

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Will definitely be up for one of these once you get something for them to work in a TE-S:rock:

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Toodles, do you know if the kitty will work in a Japan TE stick? I assume it has the same pcb as round 1, but i dont know. I just picked one up today and want to do a kitty dual mod.

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A little CLI utility wouldn’t hurt. It would be easy to write a GUI wrapper that simply calls it with the desired USB string.

Out of curiosity, what would need to be done aside from the interface stuff?

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Hey toodles, where do you get your molex ribbon from? I was wondering if they had “2 ribbon in 1 molex connector”? Kinda like an old IDE ribbon for connecting more than 1 CD-ROM/HDD with a single ribbon. It would be really easy to do LED mod with your FGWidget.

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You mean this?

I’ve been thinking of getting this TE too if TE Kitty will work with it.

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Yes like that, but this one is mine :razzy:

http://img858.imageshack.us/img858/2475/photo2yy.th.jpg

But yeah, toodles if you know already cool, if not i can take a pic of the PCB.

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Same answer as before. If the lock switch disables Start and Select, need to wait for the TE-S solution, otherwise itll work fine.

Just read the .hex text file, read and interpret the lines for the eeprom and write them back.
And the ability to run the flashing CLI program would be a perk, especially if it can try to run it as admin.

Would be doable, but the VLX kitty hasn’t been in high demand, so its not going to be worth it for me to make a VLX specific led controller.

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I was saying the IDE ribbon as example. But I really meant is the ribbon for the TE. Sorry that I didnt make it clear.

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The file is Intel HEX, isn’t it? After loading the VLX version (the firmware was conveniently in the OP) up in Python and dumping it I what looks to be the USB string:


00F00000  43 A0 02 24 03 4B 00 69 00 74 00 74 00 79 00 20  |C..$.K.i.t.t.y. |
00F00010  00 56 00 4C 00 58 00 20 00 45 00 64 00 69 00 74  |.V.L.X. .E.d.i.t|
00F00020  00 69 00 6F 00 6E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.i.o.n..........|

Near the end.

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[quote=Toodles;10511930
Just read the .hex text file, read and interpret the lines for the eeprom and write them back.
And the ability to run the flashing CLI program would be a perk, especially if it can try to run it as admin.
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Provided my c++ skills haven’t completely rusted, I should be able to write a program with a simple interface to let people edit the string and run the flashing program.

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Yup. Its in Unicode which is why theres a 0x00 between each character. If someone says their serious about it I’ll post up into on what each of the 256 bytes are for.

That would be awesome.