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

[Toodles]

Hi Toodles,

I’ve been trying to get in contact with you since last week by email but perhaps your mailbox marcus@marcuspost.com is full? Anyways, I just resent the same email a few minutes ago.
Btw, I also have a msn messenger account. It is akfii@hotmail.com. So if you prefer online chat, just add me and we can talk over messenger.

With my best regards,
Jonathan

I’ll be happy to chat with you about it on May 15th or later.

Hi Toodles, I have a question regarding the MC Cthulhu. Is it possible to add Wii support as a Classic Controller to it? I know that there are little advantages over using the GC port (“semi-wirelesness” and access to more buttons are the only ones I could think of) but I want to know if there are plans to implement this or if it is possible at all.

I don’t understand the reasoning for your question, and answering it would only lock me into a promise I may not be able to fill. If the current feature set is insufficient for your needs, you shouldn’t buy one. If the feature set changes in the future in a way that does fill your needs, great; but don’t buy one until then.

Wow my Cthulhus just arrived only a week later, thanks Toodles!

USPS may be a lucky dip, but our AusPost generally takes that long just mailing simple letters interstate.

EDIT:

I just plugged them each in to the usb to check the custom strings I asked for, one is correct but the other is still the generic Cthulhu MC Edition message. This doesn’t bother me as it still allows me to identify each controller, but someone else might be confused if they receive my second one and be thinking “WTF IS A BEARDPI?”

Just to let you know.

Ah hell, Im sorry man. I’ll try to get the string updating program done as soon as I can after finals.

[System_1]

Ask in the Cthulhu thread and I’ll answer. I try to avoid giving out information over PM; threads allow everyone to read.

sorry for bothering you with a PM but this sentence definately caught my attention:

I should also mention that a UPCB may be overkill for what you are trying to do. If you just want a single stick that can play on the Amiga, you don’t need ANY pcb at all. If you want to add Amiga support to your existing Cthulhu stick, you can do that as well.

in fact, I just want my stick to work on Amiga and I originally thought that I could’ve done so by just wiring it to the PCB of an old Amiga stick, I haven’t tried yet though so I dunno if it’d work.

Anyhow, could you explain a little better the sentence quoted above? Do you mean that I could just put the wires coming off of my stick and button(s - there’s actually 2 fire buttons on the Amiga port however the second one has never been used, mouse aside) into a DB9 connector (following a characteristic scheme, of course, the one pictured below I guess) and it’d automatically work?

Moreover, how could I add Amiga support to my existing Ctuhlu-powered stick?

by the way, I’ve found this picture in some dude’s worklog at Amiga forums, it might help:

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm60/Retrievingsensi/logitec02.jpg

I apologize again for all these questions, I swear I’ll put a “powered by Toodles’ Technologies” sticker on my custom-stick for the Sensible Soccer World Cup and I’ll try to advertise your stuff as much as possible (I have already though)!

Sorry for asking via PM, I just wanted to make sure I would’ve ended up with an answer, these threads get relegated to the 2nd~3rd page so fast I was worried you wouldn’t have noticed my question! ^^;

[Toodles]

Sorry for asking via PM, I just wanted to make sure I would’ve ended up with an answer! ^^;

In general, the chance of getting an answer to anything not money or order related via PM is almost zero.

At any rate, the Cthulhu is common ground, just like the old Commodore controllers. All you need to do is dig up a cord from an old controller. Expose the wires on the end farthest from the plug. Use a multimeter to figure out which wire goes to which pin number. The pin numbers are shown on that link you sent.

Here is where you will connect everything:

DE-9 Pin number        Function         Cthulhu Screw Terminal
1                      Up               Up
2                      Down             Down
3                      Left             Left
4                      Right            Right
6                      Fire 1           (Whatever button you want to be Fire 1. 1K?)
7                      VCC/+5v/Power    VCC
8                      Ground           GND
9                      Fire 2           (Whatever button you want to be Fire 2. 2K?)

Hope that helps. Pin #5 is not connected to anything.

[System_1]

this way I’d have both USB/PS3 and Amiga compatibility at the same time (well not simultaneously but you get what I mean)?

I’m not sure if I got what you mean (might’ve been the language barrier, I apologize) but the wires from my stick(s) and buttons are already coming to the screw terminals of the Ctuhlu…

what you’re telling me is that on those same terminals I’d just have to add the exposed wires coming from the Commodore-like controller ripped-off cable following the pattern posted above, put the DB9 connector plug into the joystick port and the stick would start working on my Amiga systems as well?

Just making sure, I’m not that savvy when it comes to this kind of stuff.

[Toodles]

what you’re telling me is that on those same terminals I’d just have to add the exposed wires coming from the Commodore-like controller ripped-off cable following the pattern posted above, put the DB9 connector plug into the joystick port and the stick would start working on my Amiga systems as well?

Assuming the pinout you liked works on the Amiga, yes, that’s all.

[System_1]

wow, awesome!! Gonna try that over the week-end, thanks a bunch Toodles.

[Missing_Person]

Toodles, got the Cthulhu MC in the mail today. Going to put it in my stick and get the dual-mod done (with a single RJ-45 to handle all systems) tonight.

I am wowed at the size of it. Looked bigger in everyone’s pictures, but I’m thoroughly impressed by the size. Also, I was concerned (only slightly, your guide made it look easy enough to do) about whether the diodes would be soldered in when I got it, so to see that I needed no additional assembly (every site with assembled Cthulhus showed it without diodes) was pretty awesome.

Tried leaving feedback, but am too stupid to figure it out.

[NalL256]

Toodles GL with finals. This is the first time I’ve ever put money down on an out of stock item so hopefully my dollar vote will cause modchipman to make bigger orders.

[Kaytrim_s_Kustoms]

Toodles GL with finals. This is the first time I’ve ever put money down on an out of stock item so hopefully my dollar vote will cause modchipman to make bigger orders.

I’ll second the thought on your finals. Take care only two weeks left.

Michael

[P4ul]

My Cthulhu arrived yesterday and was hooked up to my agetec dreamcast stick in no time. I can recommend this to anyone else like me who’s hopeless with electronics (it was really easy!) and to any UK customers worried about customs charges, I didn’t have to pay any.

Thanks Toodles

[Missing_Person]

I got home yesterday and made quick to get up to my “laboratory” to put this thing in my stick. It took me a couple hours, pretty much every mod job I’ve done has turned into fail. On top of that I was using a DPDT Switch with an RJ-45 connection to handle individual cables. The soldering took a while, not because of any inherent difficulty from the Cthulhu, just because the ethernet cable I used on the internal connection with my neutrik jack contained some of the most brittle stranded wire I’ve seen, 2nd only to an official PS2 cable.

When I got everything wired, I hooked it up to the 360, and turned on the system…and almost threw up when IT WOULDN’T REGISTER. Grabbed my multimeter, checked everything. What appeared to happen was my wire running D- to the RJ-45 frayed off the connector on the DPDT. I re-trimmed and tinned that wire, resoldered it to the DPDT. Plugged my stick back in, and IT WORKS!

Tonight, I’ve got to wire the buttons to the Cthulhu, but my main goal was just getting that basic functionality solid.

Thanks Toodles, funando, and Bomberman for their advice and help with getting me in the right direction for my mod!

[System_1]

Sorry if this is a noob question, but I just wanted some clarification of the first post. Would I be able to put this in a 360 stick and have it work for the ps3?

edit: nvm I got the answer. I feel like the noob i am =|

[hakdizzle]

im having trouble getting the gc working with my mc cuthulu, could it be im using and imp board with a 360 pcb. Is there a button i have to hold when I plug in thwe gc thanks! also is there supposed to be continuity between f + g points

[espiochamaeleo]

I’m wondering if there’s a way to have Cthulu + Imp in a 360 TE stick use the same USB cable as the TE PCB and just switch between the systems with Imp. I may be blind and missed this being asked somewhere already. If it’s possible, how practical (i.e. how much of a PITA) is it?

[Toodles]

im having trouble getting the gc working with my mc cuthulu, could it be im using and imp board with a 360 pcb.

1. Is there a button i have to hold when I plug in thwe gc thanks!
2. also is there supposed to be continuity between f + g points

1. Nope. In fact, gamecube doesn’t do squat with the USB wires, so you it should work no matter if the Imp is in primary or secondary mode.
2. Uh, no, no there should not be. And since column F is the one controlling the communication with the gamecube, you’ve nailed the problem. Find your short and fix it, or triple check your gamecube pinout; its easy to use the wrong wire(s)

[hakdizzle]

check the pinouts, no more contunity between f and g still nothing btw Im trying to use it on my wii

[raeli]

I’m going to do a couple of project boxes, one of which is a Cthulu… and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this? http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1753/ele-01/Project_Box_-_1551_Series_Miniature_Plastic_Enclosure_1551KBK.html#blank

Seems like the Cthulu would fit there… not sure if the MadCatz SE PCB would… but it’s about the same size as the Cthulu board…

[bitkid]

Toodles,
I just received my Cthulu board from Lizard Lick (took 2 months!). Just got done installing it and it was the easiest stick I ever built. The performance is so good so far on PC. I was playing around with 3rd Strike in emulator and now I’m able to do kara dragon punches now so easily, whereas before I couldn’t do them on my Dualshock stick thru a converter. There’s like no lag with this thing. Awesome board.

[hakdizzle]

Hey toodles is it possible that I shorted something, and now its not working anymore? Im getting a small resistance from vcc and gnd with it off. Lol ts driving me nuts!

[Toodles]

Hey toodles is it possible that I shorted something, and now its not working anymore? Im getting a small resistance from vcc and gnd with it off. Lol ts driving me nuts!

If it works over USB, then there is no short circuit on the board itself.

You should be dealing with the Gamecube cable and only the Gamecube cable. Check it, pin it out, check voltages, redo it, reread the instructable, and if it still doesn’t work, do it all again.