So far, they aren’t. Im in the last three weeks of the semester, spend about 5 hours a days packing boxes for mailing, and extremely sleep deprived. There definitely wont be any progress any time in the next three weeks. Faux123 put up a guide, as did Bomberman, and either one should be able to walk you through the process, and you’re free to ask any questions you may have left unanswered.
When MC Cthulhu support DC?
Whit my adapter PSX/PS2 to DC work fine
Never.
I am glad to hear.
Just wanted to say thanks Toodles.
Got the boards really quickly, wasn’t expecting them so soon!
Good luck with finals and all, last 3 weeks of a semester spells finals hell…
I was wondering if anyone else has mentioned but I’m coming across an odd bug with my dual pcb setup with cthulhu and imp on a 360 madcatz te stick. Everything seems to work fine however after a little bit of playing (sofar only tested on 360) the 360’s round house button (Right Trigger) stops working. When unplug the controller and re-plug it in, it works again.
Your easiest bet is to plug it into a PC for testing. You’re mainly concerned with determining two things:
- Does it also happen when set to the Cthulhu?
- When it happens with either board, does the button get set On, or set Off.
We’ll troubleshoot further when have answers to those two questions.
Toodles, your Cthulu is a godsend.
I received them ( all of them ) come in today and tested one of them and they are soooo nice.
here’s picture, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
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AFTER:
Ok, so here’s my issue.
Got an MC Cthulhu and assembled it. Assembled it like a standard (didn’t know it was an MC, I got a different one than I ordered).
I plugged it into the PC at that point, all was perfect. all buttons registered fine, no issues.
So then I found out it was an MC. Removed the USB power connection, soldered the diodes.
Put it in my SE stick, did the dual pcb setup detailed in the SE dual pcb thread. Now when I plug it into my PC it says “failed to install” and “unknown device”.
I think it’s not getting power correctly. Because for a split second when it’s plugged in it says “HID device” then says failed install.
With this dual pcb setup the 360 portion works perfectly. I’ve tested continuity and all connections from ground and the buttons are fine from both the cthulhu and 360 pcbs.
I may just go back to the standard setup and remove the diodes, because I really didn’t need an MC, but just thought I might as well assemble it fully since I had it.
If there’s something I might be missing before I take it out and remove those and re-solder the ‘usb power’ connection, maybe I can try it.
Removing the diodes now would be counterproductive until you know the cause of the problem. I need a very detailed explanation of how everything is wired up, especially the power line from the USB cable, and where the power connections are between the 360 board and the cthulhu. Are you using a DPDT or an Imp?
Soldered up my MC kit a couple of nights ago (excellent instructions on Instructables.com, thanks!). It all worked perfectly first time. I’ve only tried it on my PS3 so far but it’s a quality product, well done!
Nope, no DPDT or Imp.
I’ve got the 5V and ground on the 360 pcb running to the VCC and ground on the Cthulhu as detailed here:
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=182775
I can get a more detailed layout. I did most stuff the same there except I used 360 and Cthulhu > Terminal strip instead of combining them on the strip that was already built into the SE stick.
cool i will read their threads on the matter.
thanks for the reply
Actually, I was just doing a dual mod over the weekend on a friends stick, and last night at a gathering we noticed the same exact thing, except it was the round house (right trigger) and the all 3 kicks button (left trigger). It happened when being passed around, and I don’t have the board fully secured in (just duct taped in place temporarily), so I just chalked it up to the board hitting the bottom plate and grounding something out that shouldn’t have been. But the solution was the same (even after I opened it up and checked all the wires, pulling my hair out that I couldn’t find anything wrong), unplugging and plugging it in was the simple fix, and it didn’t happen again the rest of the night.
We were only using it on 360, so I don’t know if its the same on the PS3.
since the problem happens randomly, theres no way to reproduce it on the PC to check if its set to fully on or fully off. I think the 360 will automatically ignore the triggers if they are defaulting to being pressed (which is why you can get away with not putting resistors on the triggers so long as you un-map the buttons in game), so that would be my guess.
TEMPORARILY CLOSED
I need to close up shop until after finals are over, May 15th. First post and sig will be updated.
I’'ll still be reading the forums and offering support as needed, but purchases between now and May 15th need to be done through a retailer. I will still be filling retailer orders, so it’s not like they’re going to dry up or anything. Orders that have already been discussed and agreed to (huge balls, LegendaryGouki) will still be honored as soon as possible. Any other unsolocited paypals will be refunded.
Good things are coming.
Good luck on the finals, should be good timing for me to pick up some boards around then too!
Ok, here’s my awful MS paint wiring diagram.
I didn’t include all the buttons for the sake of time, but you’ll get the idea.
I think this should work.
Also, I didn’t connect the ‘disable home’ button. I don’t plan on using one, so I just left it. I don’t have one wired either (maybe I need to?).
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4812/wiring.th.png
If not I may have to take out the wires and just test it PS3 only. I need it PS3 compatible for this weekend, so I might have to hold off on the dual mod for the sake of getting it working
Grab a multimeter, set it to check voltage; if your multimeter uses ranges of voltages, set it to the lower voltage greater than 5 volts (20 volts on most meters).
Touch or connect the black probe to some easily accessible Ground point on the Cthulhu. Plug the USB cable for the Cthulhu into the PC. You need to take voltage measurements at these points:
- The VCC screw terminal. (should be around, usually just below, 5v. Consider any reading > 4 volts good).
- Pin #1 of the chip (see image below to help locate the pin)(voltage here should be the same as the VCC terminal. Consider any reading > 4 volts good)
- Pin #14 of the chip (Voltage should be around 3.3v. Consider any reading greater than 3 volts and less than 4 volts good).
- Column A (any point in column A will work). (Voltage should be high; Consider any reading > 4 volts good)
- Column D and Column E. One of them should show about 3.3v, the other should show zero volts; I currently forget which is which.
Let me know what you see and we’ll go from there.
Whew, glad I put ordered when I did, would’ve been tripping if I had to wait for a MC Cthulhu.
BTW, thanks for the shipping confirmation number Toodles.
Also, quick question Toodles. If I wanted to use the lock switch on my SE FightStick to keep the home button from being pressed, what specific wiring (if any) would I need to do? Is this possible with that switch on the stick?
Nice, I put in an order last night.