Can you get the wire guides separately?
No, since they won’t work with anything but the connectors designed to use them.
Do those come with a hand Job? Almost 40 dollars for 50 RJ45 connectors? jeezus! :looney:
Instead of stripping and crimping your own RJ45 connector, isn’t it possible to just buy a CAT-5 cable?
Seems a lot easier to just cut into the middle of the cable instead of making your own RJ45 connector…
If you want to try cutting a CAT-5 cable and then splicing each individual wire as required then wrapping each splice in electrical tape then heatshrinking the overall join, you can do so. I think a simple crimp job is MUCH easier.
yeah I hate RJ45 cuz the lock thingy breaks on me all the time but good tutorial 
Just use Neutrik connectors and a jack and you won’t have to worry about the connectors breaking.
Thanks. Very helpful
excellent guide. thank you.
If anyone is having trouble with spacing and making sure your wires feed into the right spots, I took a few short pieces of trash cat5 individual wires and dummy-loaded them into the RJ45 head with the actual console cables. Just think of the cat5 as blanks for the load, then keep pressure on the real wires while you gently pull the blanks out, then crimp.
Just throwing that out as another way to tackle this mod.
Wow, this is a great idea, bookmarked!
I’ve been thinking about making a custom stick and using a Cthulu, but wanted something neater than having to loads of cables for each console.
Now i just need to scrape together some pennies…
i’m thinking about putting a ps1 pcb in my modded hori ex2, there should be just enough room, i’ve checked the thread but i didn’t see how the wires would be placed? anybody have a picture or diagram to show how this would be done?
I really want to do this but i’m horrible with anything that has to do with modding, my original plan on doing this was to open up the cable and match the colors with the pictures, then i read to use a multimeter to test which is the ground so i’m assuming it’s not safe to follow the pretty colors to match it up am I correct? Since it can be any random color. If that’s the case I wont be able to do this mod :[ Really cool though thanks for posting it up to help everyone.
Ok, so i just recently got my MC Cthulu, and have soldered the wires correctly from the board to the RJ45 keystone jack, however when i put the RJ45 usb cable into the jack, it gives me an error that it is an unrecognized usb device, but when i plug into the usb port on the board it self, it reads it as the MC cthulu. could this be because of a bad crimp, when i tested the connection from the board directly to the usb cable (through the wires that i soldered and the bare wires that i stripped) it registered, so my only thoughts are that i do in fact have a bad crimp, sorry for no pictures but i’m at work
EDIT removed my intials
Its definitely a wiring problem, somewhere between the Cthulhu and the end of the USB plug, so it might be in the Cthulhu to RJ-45 connections or the RJ-45 to USB cable.
ok, thanks toodles, i’ll have to pull out my multi-meter and give it a go, maybe get a different keystone as well.
Would it be possible to wire a 360 pad to use the RJ-45 as well? Like splicing the internal USB connections for the Cthulhu and for the 360 together? Or perhaps just using a DPDT switch to toggle the USB between the Cthulhu and the 360?
from what i’ve read you would have to use a dpdt switch or “IMP” to toggle between them, then you would have to set up a different RJ45 keystone for the 360 cable. although if you’ve read the cthulhuwelcome.doc you would see that there is a way to use a madcatz pcb with the board, i haven’t tried it but i’m thinking about giving it a go.
Well, it looks like all that would really need to be done is to route the USB data lines through the DPDT switch before they got to the jack. Then you would just switch from 360 to Cthulhu with the switch. I’ve got everything I need now for my stick on the way (just ordered MC Cthulhu), so I’ll give it a shot once I get it all.
I did this on my stick, and it works fine.