I hope these are helpful. I’ll admit this project seems a little out of my league. I’ve only ever done soldering once (when I installed a cthulu board to a madcatz SE stick), but the directional inputs on mvc3 are very strict, and I need that L+R+D=D to get half circles consistently.
It’s a stock TE wiring with 2 exceptions: the TE kitty was installed as per the instruction manual, and the joystick was replaced with directional buttons. I cut the ribbon for the joystick to wire to the buttons, and daisy chained the ground to each of those buttons, but the wiring into the PCB is unchanged
Click on the small picture of the kit on the order page http://gdlk.co so you can see it zoomed in to follow along. This assumes you’ve already assembled the board and set the ‘U+D=N’ or ‘U+D=U’ jumper on the bottom.
Your direction buttons are going to a 5 pin connector. If you cut those five wires about 1"-2" from the connector that plugs into the Kitty, you’ll be putting the SOCD cleaner in the spot where you cut. The five wires going to the buttons will be soldered into the Up, Down, Left, Right, and GND points on the left side. (Yes, that means there are 3 ‘GND’ points on the left you arent using, that’s fine. No,it doesnt matter which GND point you do use.) The five wires going to the Kitty. will go into the Up, Down, Left, Right and GND points on the right hand side of the board. Then, add one wire to the VCC point on the right side, and screw down the other end into the ‘VCC’ screw terminal in the ‘XBOX’ section of the Kitty screw terminals; I think its the very bottom one, but not 100% on that.
I dont know if there’s any way to do it with the mounting posts already in the stick because its rather crowded, but you can always dremel two holes through the black bottom plastic and mount it with two #4 size bolts.Or JB Weld two #4 bolts to control panel steel, and nut it down on that.
Can’t help but think I would want my hitbox SOCD to override based on the last input given instead of negating.
-Keep holding Left, and press Right = Right
-Keep holding Right, and press Left = Left
-Keep holding Up, and press Down = Down
-Keep holding Down, and press Up = Up
This way if you accidentally don’t release Left fast enough before tapping Right you’ll still get the input you desire, instead of a Neutral which would be quite frustrating.
In the case where you intentionally press Left + Right simultaneously (why you would I don’t know?) it would register Neutral. Obviously this would require perfect simultaneous pressing in the same frame, or it would just take whichever was last pressed as above (same way as if I try and press A+B together but get it wrong in training mode)
My friend and I are trying to wire up the SOCD board right now to my Paewang PCB. Everything looks right, but for some reason I’m getting a constant Up signal, even if the SOCD board isn’t connected to any buttons. I’m using Up as a common ground – we’re going to try a different ground, but I wondered if you had an input about using this with a Paewang board.
EDIT: I think we got it. It looks like the wires leading to the Paewang are colored wrong – Red is actually ground and black is signal. What a headache. Hope future generations can learn from this.
I dont understand what you mean by ‘I’m using Up as a common ground’. You need to check those four connector thingys and figure out for each one which pin is the actual direction signal, and which one is the ground. Those signals are the ones that should go to the up, down, left, right on the right side of the SOCD cleaner.
Take some good pictures and post them up.
Hey toodles, I was wondering if it is possible to only have this chip affect up and down and not left / right as I like the behavior of my left/right being held down simultaneously. What would I need to do to make it work without affecting left / right?
Thanks… I guess I don’t understand how it works. Should I keep resistor 3 and 4 in there? Anything special with the vcc? (i have no idea what the vcc is… can i safely solder multiple things to it?)
Definitely put all four resistors in no matter what.
The ‘vcc’ is the power going to the board. Where to connect it on your main pcb depends on your main pcb.
I am a little bit disappointed. I now have to order this and find a modder in my area that can do this. I just ordered the Blklightning21 TE Hitbox Panel. I ordered the harness and everything. Now I have to order this. Money is not on my side for this project.
thank you![/S]