The official Cthulhu and ChImp thread - Try our new Dreamcast flavor!

[OneDay]

Ah ok sweet and as far as the Cthulhu boards go you can send them to me if ya like

[parabellum]

Im in the middle of a move at the moment so I cant put any pics up but others are free to. Imagine a black cthulhu, a little skinnier, with a spot for a 4066n chip where the grid normally is, and a few more of the unlabelled holes than normal.

Toodles.

How can we get in line for the new Chimp?

Is there a pre order list?

[System_1]

what exactly is the ChImp?

Cthulhu+Imp = ChImp

now only one board

[EJM]

Here s a pic of the ChImp, I’m going to be installing it to a TE later on tonight.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v702/stevedjm/DSC01918.jpg

[Ubo]

Here s a pic of the ChImp, I’m going to be installing it to a TE later on tonight.

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I don’t know what that is, but it looks sexy. Toddles, your are the man.

[souji5]

Installs are going to be a lot cleaner! Thanks Toodles

[LuckyDay]

Yeah, that looks great. The black/white color looks really good too. I think it’s much more clear on the labeling.

[mR_CaESaR]

sweet!!! thanks for the pics…

can’t wait for toodles to start selling these so i can start installing again

EJM: No more glueing an imp next to the cthulhu!!

edit: look at the size of those USB holes!!! w00t!! thanks for making them bigger!!

[ShinJN]

Same size (maybe a few mm bigger in length) as the Cthulhu. Still suffers from screw terminals covering the labels. =D

[psychedelicbeat]

Same size (maybe a few mm bigger in length) as the Cthulhu. Still suffers from screw terminals covering the labels. =D

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2736/4034771775_b92d25dca2.jpg

YIKES! might want to put labels on the back if that’s even possible at this point

[Toodles]

one huge concern, correct me if i’m wrong, of the chimp is that if a person has a 360 pcb, say a 360TE, the chImp will not default to the 360 pcb but instead the chImp unless you are using the piggyback from the chImp which a lot of people haven’t been doing

EDIT: unless i’m mistaken that the d+ d- leads for the 360 are already preprogrammed to sense a data connection instead of switching via holding a button thus not needing to do piggyback wiring

I can’t really picture what you’re trying to describe, so for the time beung, just trust me, it’ll work awesome, with a 360 pad or TE pcb. if you connect every in the unlabelled holes (directions, buttons, triggers, power, ground, d+/d-) it’ll work just peachy.

at least it should. that’s why the betas went out.

[psychedelicbeat]

nono i misread your comments a few pages back. i know what’s up now =)
i usually just wire up straight to the terminal block of a TE. the only concern was switching but since it knows that its plugged to a 360, all should be well.
i’m just surprised how you got this critical function working

It looks like the ChImp code is ready for testing. I’ve tested out the functionality as best I can, and everything appears to be working as expected. There are two things though that I’m throwing out for input in case anyone wants to throw in.

1. The board by itself does the whole “Start+Select=Home/Guide” thing, both internally when on PS3/PC, and by forcing the line low, pretending to ‘press’ the Guide, when in 360 mode. It will continue to do this until the first time the actual Guide button is pressed, if one exists. So, if you don’t have a dedicate home/guide button, no worries, it will always work no questions asked. If you do have a dedicated home/guide button, then once you press it for the first time after you plugged it in, it’ll work no questions asked. I’m curious if anyone would expect that Start+Select activating the Home/Guide button before the first time you press the real button would be a problem? I’m pretty damned confident that it won’t, but I could be wrong. I could have the chip save a flag in the EEPROM, something to tell the board, “I’ve never seen a Home button, so let’s go ahead and keep doing the start+select=home thing” or “Yes, I have seen a Home button, so no pretending.” But then I’d also have to put in a button press combination to clear that flag in case the board got moved over to a different stick and I’m really not thinking the added coding time and headache will actually help anything. Pro’s, con’s, opinions?

2. If the chimp+ 360 pad are plugged into a 360 when the 360 is off, you won’t be able to turn on the 360 via the guide/home button (or start+select combination. see above). Once the 360 is turned on, then the chimp sees the 360, and goes into full 360 mode no problem. In fact, if the 360 is then turned off with the stick still plugged in, you CAN turn on the 360 via the guide/home button just peachy, as much as you like until you unplug the stick. The chimp can’t currently detect a 360 console if the console is off, and I really feel that trying to force the issue so it detects a powered off 360 console would cause some problems with some PC’s. Does anyone really think this is a deal breaker or even something to worry about?

it’s not a deal breaker. many times people need to plug up the cord anyways, so there’s really no reason that this should cause a problem unless someone is ridiculously lazy. in fact, you mentioning it being still plugged in and being able to be turned on from the guide button makes it even better for certain setups. as long as the guide button works for turning on the 360 after it’s been already turned on, plugged in, and turned off, it should be awesome

no more need for splicing and dicing
i’m gonna be using this as a standard now for my mod work, and i’ll shoot you a PM sometime to follow up

hook me up with one jimmy if you have an extra you wont use! i’m just down the street! i’d need to test as well cough

[FreezerB]

Damn, I wish I got a ChImp to mess around with.

If anyone gets bored with theirs, you know…>_>;

[rtdzign]

Quick question about the ChImp. Do you now connect the VCC+ and Gnd from the Xbox 360 pcb to one of the holes on 1-11 or A-K? And when you do get around to selling them they will be pre-assembled correct?

[EJM]

Heres my chImp mod. I tested it out on a multimeter and it looked good. On Saturday its going into the TE stick to be tested at a local tourny.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v702/stevedjm/DSC01931-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v702/stevedjm/DSC01926-1.jpg

[Digital]

Heres my chImp mod. I tested it out on a multimeter and it looked good. On Saturday its going into the TE stick to be tested at a local tourny.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v702/stevedjm/DSC01931-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v702/stevedjm/DSC01926-1.jpg

wow that wiring job looks so sexy. :tup:

[Kaytrim_s_Kustoms]

I’ve had my nose to the grindstone so much that I didn’t even know this of this little surprise coming in the mail. I have just the joystick that this will work in. I should have it installed and tested tonight. Marcus you are da man.

Michael

[System_1]

really nice…
i need a ChImp

[Toodles]

Quick question about the ChImp.

1. Do you now connect the VCC+ and Gnd from the Xbox 360 pcb to one of the holes on 1-11 or A-K?
2. And when you do get around to selling them they will be pre-assembled correct?

1. You can, or you can use the VCC and GND screw terminal holes, your choice. There is nothing different about this from current cthulhu’s.
2. The first batch of of 100 (well, 90ish now) will be unassembled kits. Any after that, I havent decided yet.

[LuckyDay]

So assuming the beta tests come back positive, when will we be able to get our hands on these?