Okay after re-reading some of the posts on this thread I see that drivers shouldn’t have been needed, so it seems like something isn’t working on the cthulhu but not sure what.
When I have the imp switch to the cthulhu I test it on the multimeter I show power getting to the cthulhu. Also the button wires pass from the cthulhu to the stick and they all work on the 360 side so it seems like something on the cthulhu alone is causing the issue and not activating, just not sure where to start looking.
does it make the sound when you plug it inot the computer?
Whats happened to me previously is it takes a while before the computer recognises the cthuhlu, i’m talking about 10 seconds or so after plugging it in. That’s when it shows under game controllers.
No sounds, nothing. I went through the troubleshooting and it all seemed ok but the whole column a d e thing I didn’t have anything connected since mine is just ps3 I also wonder if it’s the d+ or - but not sure how to check it
The cthulhu will (should) be powered and grounded regardless of the 360/cthulhu selection made, take a pic and post it, if it’s anything I’d guess its the d+/d-
Appreciate the help here. I took a picture. Here’s what I have done though, I rewired the D+ (it looks terrible now) but when the imp has the second board active (the cthulhu) I am registering the full 5 volts on the power and d+ and d- on the imp and on the usb area on the cthulhu.
From what I am seeing, it’s getting power and the d+ and - seem to be registering, but still when I plug it in to Vista nothing happens at all.
Are you saying the the voltage on the D+ and D- are 5v?? If so, that’s a serious problem.
THere’s troubleshooting guide for the cthulhu linked in the first post in this thread; there is also a similar guide for troubleshooting the imp linked in the first post of the Imp thread. If I were you, I’d go through the Imp one first. It should be easy since the Imp appears to work. I bet you’d find that the D+/D- lines are either swapped, shorted against ground/power/each other, or some combination.
Yeah you called part of it, I did have a stray stand of the wire touching a vcc to the d+ that caused it to be 5 volts. Correcting that lowered the voltage but didn’t fix the issue. It then read roughly 2.4v.
I was almost positive I wired the d+ and d- correctly, but I went ahead and tried your idea and flipped them and now on the imp the d+ and d- readings are showing 2.4 volts still, but when I read it on the cthulhu i is now a negative 2.4, so now I would say they really are reversed.
I have gone through the toubleshooting on the imp and the cthulhu, all of the power readings are correct on all of the chips, each pin that you mention to test reads correctly. That’s why I am at a loss.
One of the D’s should read a voltage around 3v, but the other should be 0v. You also didnt mention testing of the D’s were showing any connection between the two of them.
Are there any dumbed down basic tutorials for someone like me? I bought the MC cthulhu board pre assembled and have no idea how to put it into my 360 madcatz se stick.
I am talking “do i need to go to raidioshack and buy wires and what do i do with them” basic. I bought the pre-assembled because I have no clue really. I was able to put new buttons and a new stick into it but beyond that I am dumbfounded.
Sorry if its been explained elsewhere, I looked a a few tutorials in the first post and at the FAQ and still couldn’t figure it out
I have reversed the D+ and D- so they are back to being wired correctly on the cthulhu. However, it is still not working and the D+ is showing 5v. Obviously you said it should be 3 like the buttons and such, so there is a problem but I don’t see it.
I have checked my soldering a dozen times over, the power/ground and d+/d- are all wired and not touching each other. The power/ground is working showing the correct 5v, but the d+/- are not correct and there is nothing causing it on the cthulhu or the imp.
What else could can I look at that might be causing this issue? The 360 controller is still working with the imp, but the cthulhu isn’t being recognized. I even verified that the chip is in the right way so yeah… hate to keep bugging you, I honestly expected it to be somewhat easy compared to the 360 controller.
Could your imp/cthulhu be mounted on something conductive? I guess if you made sure everything wasnt shorted with your multimeter that would rule out the conductive surface.
The Imp and Cthulhu are both sitting on plastic pcb mounting feet, screwed in to the wood and held in place by some machine screws, so yeah shouldn’t be an issue. Nothing is touching that I could see shorting.
Like I said all of the buttons register 3 volts, the usb power is showing 5v on the cthulhu and imp, the vcc shows 5v. Everything is showing correctly, tested the various spots mentioned in the troubleshooting guide and they all came back clear too.
The issue just seems to be with the data +/-, my guess is if that worked at the right voltage it would fix the issue and be recognized but I am not sure.
Is it possible that one of the chips that had to be soldered to the board could do this? The troubleshooting guide didn’t have me test anything other than the main chip, would something else cause it? I’ve burnt myself I don’t know how many times on this and I’ve all but given up, which is sad considering how close I think I am.
Toodles - I have two of your Cthulu PC/PS3 boards and they truly are awesome. One was a pre-made and one was the “DIY” kit - both were incredibly easy to get up and running.
Well I didn’t hear anything to help diagnose the issue but I had a second cthulhu that I was going to use for a second stick. I ended up using the second cthulhu in my stick and it worked perfectly just like it should.
With that said, I am even more convinced there is something wrong with that first cthulhu since this second one was wired exactly the same and worked the first time.
Is it ok to remove the USB jack on this assembled board I have? Don’t need for what I am doing which is a dual mod with the IMP board. It would be easier to solder without the USB jack on.
It’d be a bad idea to remove it, and much much harder than just doing the dual mod on its own.
Column D is the D- line, column E is the D+ line, column G is ground, and column V is the incoming power (VCC) from the Imp. It its MUCH easier to solder to those than to the holes under the USB jack.
Yup. If you have one of the 1.4 assembled boards (check the bottom) then it came with four of the great diodes, and you can use any point in any of the three rows without any worry.
