Im wiring up my mc tonight and yanking the ps2 cord out of an old psx controller. looking at the psx pcb from abov would the pinout go up or down in order from left to right?
I skimmed the first posts here and have been looking at the lizardlick and gamingnow websites. Both are sold out of Cthulhu boards unfortunately. I think I just want the basic assembled Cthulhu boardā¦ but Iām not sure how hard it is to installā¦ is there a post somewhere in the 100+ pages of this thread that shows a how to with the cthulhu board?
Ahahahahahaha kill yourself.
The thicker black wire is the shielded ground, it does not need to be connected to anything.
Nah, there wonāt be any preorders. If all goes well with the beta testers, then Iāll quietly get them out to the resellers and announce when theyāre up and available.
The āthick black wireā is the shielding ground. You can trim it short and forget about it if you like, or if youād feel better soldering it someplace, theyāll go nicely in one of the larger mounting holes that the USB jack goes into.
How the wires are connected to some other board has zero to do with where the matching pins are on the PSX plug, and zero to do with where they would go on an MC. You need to use a multimeter and pin it out as described in the instructable.
www.slagcoin.com is your best āIāve never done this sorta thing before.ā resource. The pictures in the first post should you exactly what the board looks like, and is followed by lots of pictures of how people used it in their stick. Take a peek at slagcoinās site, those pictures, and the welcome document, and if you have any specific questions not answered go ahead and post them up.
A metal nut fell off inside my wonderfully crafted box and slid under the cthulhu board which is mounted half a centimeter off the board. Could this of caused permanent damage to cause some of the buttons to not respond?
I wired up my homemade stick with a cthulhu board and had great success on the PS3 for months. Wanting a dual system stick and not having any solder skills, I bought a pre-wired 360 pad and piggybacked the wires into the same screw terminals on the cthulhu board. I know itās not very clean and I have two seperate USB cables coming out of my joystick but it was working on my ps3 & 360 for months. I never plugged both USB cables at the same time!
However, now when I attempt to play on the PS3, the Start, Home, and some of the trigger buttons do not respond. When I plug it into the 360 (again not at the same time) everything works perfect which I find odd since itās piggybacking off the cthulhu. So I wonder if it could possibly be because of damage a metal nut caused? the 360 board responds fine so i donāt know if it could be a wiring problem.
The only way the nut could permanently damage the board was if it was shot out of a gun and broke something off. It touching random metal on the board could cause problems, all of which would go away the moment you removed the nut.
First off, test it on a PC so you can see specifically how the buttons act. Are some showing always on? Take a multimeter, and measure the voltage on the screw terminal for any of the buttons causing problems. When everything is as it should be, the voltage on the screw terminal will be high-ish (say, more than 2 volts) when not pressed, and low-ish (say less than 2 volts) when pressed. If they arenāt, then there is a wiring problem.
Canāt wait for the ChIMP, hope it comes out before christmas.
No Luck
Okay, uhhhā¦gamingnow.net and lizardlick.com are sold out of assembled cthulhu T.T any ideas where I can get another?
Lizard Lickās stock is in the mail, and Iām boxing up Naregās order this weekend.
I have one question about Dual modding a madcatz padhack + ps3 Cthulhu with an Imp switch.
Say I donāt have room for a Home/Guide button, would there be a way to make it so that when I press Start and Select it then would activate my home/guide button?
From what Iāve gathered you can make the Start and Select button activate the console switch but not sure if it makes it act as the Home and Guide button for both PCBs.
Tried searching but didnāt really come up with anything relevant.
You connect both PCBās start, back/select and home/guide to the Cthulhu and it will work as you desire iirc.
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?p=6246215#post6246215
The Imp does it; check the welcome doc linked in the first post of the Imp thread.
Those connections should be there anyway. Itās the jumper on the Imp and connecting them to the Imp thatās important to make it work right on both.
yay thanks man. Both of the sites are trust worthy, right? I donāt usually do the online thing, but this arcade stick is worth it.
cool , thanks much guys.
Theyāve both been awesome since Iāve been working with them selling stuff, and Iāve been ordering parts from LL since even before I started selling stuff and theyāve never done me wrong.
Iāve ordered from both places and they are both great. They both ship fast and cheap too. Canāt go wrong with either, imo.
Thank you, I appreciate the input on the two sitesā reliability! Iāll have to make sure to order my cthulhu ASAP.:party:
I was wondering if you guys could help me outā¦
My friend installed a pcb cthulhu on my 360 TE stick a couple of months back. It was working fine for the first few weeks, but now it has issues mainly when I use it on the PS3. The buttons are really unresponsive, and I canāt seem to get some of my commands out. The game starts to freak out and pause or pull up the navigator at random times.
It generally works fine on my 360, but Iām still having the random navigator popup issues every now and then. Can anyone tell me what could be wrong with my stick? Is it a stick issue, or a cthuhlu issue?
at a guess, its a power problem. Your friend may not have followed the golden rules of dual pcb mods:
- All boards must be common ground.
- All boards must always be powered.
At a guess, #2 wasnāt followed.