I want to get a common ground Dreamcast PCB (Madcatz Dreampad or Agetec “Green Goblin” PCB) I only want to trade if you can verify that the pad is common ground.
This is an example of what it looks like.
Notice the Large blank area to the bottom right of D-pad. If you have a clear controller you will be able to see this.
I must be able to easily triple pcb this with 6 digital face buttons, I have a Common ground cthulhu/360 stick setup with a db-25 portsetup for other systems not supported by Chthulhu, like saturn and Snes and hopefully a dreamcast with Dual VMU support.
Not all of the Madcatz Dreampads are common ground.
I tried using this pcb that is not common ground and this is the one that I am not looking for. After running tests I concluded that this pad will not work.
I have 6 White Sanwa OSBN (screw in) and 5 white rim clear center Seimitsu 24mm screw ins for trade. Buttons are new and unused.
Yeah those performance astropads won’t do. I’ve heard they are not common ground, and they don’t have 6 digital face buttons. I am trying to avoid having trigger lag on my custom and need it to be common ground, Basically I am quite particular of what PCB I get.
I have a DB-25 port on my stick, but it will only work with common ground pads.
I really don’t use this pad anymore and it was never my favorite to begin with. D-pad’s kind of stiff. I have kept all its ports filled with tremor pak and memory card so not to worry – no dust contamination there!
I know it may be a lot to ask but in order for me to tell if it is common ground I would need to see a high res picture of the pcb. I just bought that same one off ebay but it wasnt common ground. I just dont want to play roulette with ebay. The later model clear color ones are more likely to be common ground.
Yeah that’s the same one that I got. The directional have a seperate common, and the start has it’s own ground, and the face buttons have a different common. Thanks for opening it up. Thanks though for looking. A few of the late model opaque ones where common ground I hear. The traces and resistor layout are changed.
Updated first post with pictures.
I have one of those too. Thanks for the offer. The trigger lag with an official pad has been noticeable in Alpha 3. Not too much of a problem when I hit Fierce first, but probably explained why I only got level 2 super combos most of the time instead of 3.
Thanks Kojiro. To be quite honest I didn’t know there where more that 2 revisions of this PCB. The only way to be sure is if you have a multimeter and can do a continuity test on the ground lines. I think that one is one that is not common ground, but is hackable to be common ground since It has a resistor block, from what I’ve read in the pad hacking thread.
I read something in the pad hacking forum that I am going to try, see if it will work on my pcb. but I’ll still want to see what any body may have especially one that matches the first pick.
I am now going to close this thread. Thanks everyone who tried to hook me up. I just got a Agetec on the way, I’m going to put my non CG dreampad PCB in that case and swap out the pcbs.
