Actually, if you’re going to be modding a Madcatz TE, did you consider the cord storage compartment? I was planning on adding a completely separate cord for PS2 (so there would be one PS2 cord, one USB cord and a SPDT/DPDT switch to make the USB switch between PS3/X360).
You could simply store whichever cord you’re not using to play in the storage compartment and have the cleaner look at all times. That was my plan, anyway.
Beautiful. Can you sign me up for 2 x PS2 compatibility upgrade kits with the necessary diodes? I’d like to have everything ready before the TEs arrive! Just let me know where to Paypal to, and how much.
Toodles, do you have any of the PS3/PC boards? I can offer you some trades and cash. Would prefer to deal with you directly since the op says you take some trades. Sorry I couldn’t PM you, not enough posts.
Nah, I decided to make my own instead of getting a TE stick… I really liked the TE sticks and they aren’t all that overpriced at all consitering what they have on them, but I just wanted to make my own again.
Never actually thought of the storage compartment though, that’s a good idea for keeping it clean, only problem is that my regular PS2 cable connected to the PCB inside the stick won’t reach to where I keep the system from the coffee table =/
Ah ok. I wasn’t sure how you had detection working. I figured there was a chance you might need to solder each wire to a different row and detection would be based on whether or not a signal was coming through the vcc (w/ pull down resistor) or something like that. That would take up more inputs though I believe, so the packet detection makes sense.
Damn, I leave for an hour or two to run errands and tha thread asplode.
I’ve never done any cabling work liek that, so I can’t be of much help there, but I do look forward to seeing what you come up with.
The one you have now? Nope. That board does PS3 and PC only, exactly has described. It does it well, no more, no less.
If you wanted to have PSX support as well, using that board, you’d have to order an upgrade chip, pop out the current chip, put the new chip in, and solder in a PSX cable with the instructions I’ll be putting up asap.
Like I said a few posts ago, if you’re willing to do all of that hard work (and installed a DB connector solidly into a stick is hard work) then you might as well get a UPCB and enjoy all of the benefits a UPCB has over the Cthulhu.
Technically, what you’re describing can be done with a MC Cthulhu, but I don’t want to get into it for a while yet; people are getting confused enough as it is.
Prices are already posted 2x $12 for the chips and diodes, $5 priority mail shipping = $29 to marcus@marcuspost.com
Of course I do take trades, feel free to PM. (If you’re worried about LL being out yet again, damn you people are burning through boards faster than I can put them together. Another very large box of boards was shipped today, and should be there Thursday-ish, give or take a day. Seriously, I am sorry for the delays, but you have no idea how hard it has been with the SF4 rush to keep up.)
The PS3 only Cthulhu and the MC Cthulhu can both be made to work on Neo, just like any other common ground pad. Grab a Neogeo extension cable and your Cthulhu of choice and I’ll walk you through what to solder where.
Heh, it’s Neogeo. No need to worry about software at all
No need to inform me in the thread, I check the user control panel all of the time
so can we assume that the MC Cthulhu will get the same features as the Universal PCB like piggyback the 360 controller to have only one output cable to the console and without a selectionswitch ? or is it just a dream ?
Nope, can’t happen. The only reason that UPCB can do that is because the cables tell it whether or not to use the piggyback controller, and the 4066n analog switch IC does exactly what the toggle switch does.
Using a 360 pad with a Cthulhu will require either two separate USB cables, or a toggle swith.
BEFORE it ships? I’m just a peon man, I’m not MrWizard. No pre-release sticks for me. I’ll put it up as absolutely soon as I can, yes, but I won’t have one until it ships.
Almost. Mine wasn’t the SC2 version, just the regular yellow one, but that one should work just as easily. I don’t know how much you value the stick as a whole, but in my opinion everything about that stick except for the cable is crap. That cable soldered to an MC Cthulhu is pretty sweet; add an Xbox->USB adapter and you’ve got just about everything you could want with only one cord.
A nearby pawn shop has a pelican ‘real arcade’, the wooden one with the little spot to put in a moves list card, for $25, and it has the 3 system cable on it. I’m tempted to pick it up and swap parts on it.
The columns can be seen clearly in the image Per made; link in the first post. The colors of the wires and which columns they go to are listed in that post, so it should be pretty plug and chug. Here’s what mine looks like for now in that big stick, but I hope to re-do it on a new board without screw terminals or USB jack and install it in my Namco stick. http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1376/dsc03204smalloh5.jpg
That’s the idea Pick any combination of PS3, PSX, GC, and Xbox, any one, two, three or all four systems. You have that many cords hanging out the back of your stick (unless you’re resourceful and can find one of those multi-system cords we’ve been talking about), and your stick can be used on any of those systems.
2x $12 for the chips and diodes, $5 priority mail shipping = $29 to 
or is it just a dream ?
