Hi opt2not
Thank you for you help so far, much appreciated.
If I set my multimeter to amperage, the VCC terminal when grounded reads 0.005A when connected to my Saturn.
That doesn’t sound like much to me!?
Do you perhaps have a working one you could test and compare?
Yeah I can check ‘em for you. Give me a day or so. I’ve been having to put in OT at work.
Aloha @PAS.Timothy
Update so far. On my Paradise Cthulhu, the PS3 works in both left- and right-handed modes. My installer installed a male-to-male RJ45 cable, wired it up according to both color of wires and Left-to-Right order, and the Dreamcast works in both left- and right-handed mode.
Here’s the problem. it’s designed so you plug the RJ45 F-F connector and then attach the appropriate a different R45 adapter then it should be an easy correction. However, none of the other controller adapters work. PS2, Game Cube, Xbox, SNES, Saturn, and NES.
i remember, when I plugged the PAS Cthulhu, my Macintosh called it a “Sega Virtua Stick”. My friends says he needs to load the PAS Cthulhu firmware update. Where is the website for the PAS Cthulhu firmware update? I would have done it myself, except I didn’t know how to load firmware on a Macintosh. And I don’t where the update website is.
Assuming the PAS is already updated, or we update and it still has the behavior, and it still only works for the PS3 and DC, may I have a possible explanation on why the Dreamcast works with the RJ45, but none of the other adapters I bought on Ebay work.
Should I assume the same adapter that works on the Cthulhu also works on Aki Shop PS360+ and Brook Retro? I bought the adapters assuming they are all the same, because one of the places said all are the same. If there is a difference, let me know, and is it a simple pin switch to go from PS360+ to Cthulhu or from Brook Retro to Cthulhu. Is it possible that the Dreamcast one is a Cthulhu and the other adapters are other brands, and is there an easy transition between brands?
All RJ-45 cables for any given retro console have the same pinout no matter if you’re using a PS360+, MC Cthulhu or Brook Retro Board.
Off-hand the only one that might be wonky is Saturn cables.
Thanks FreedomGundam for eliminating that possibility.
Can you think of a reason why the Dreamcast Rj45 wire works, both right- and left- handed, as well as the USB B PS3, but not the other RJ45s by swapping out at the RJ45 clip and changing to other systems. It should be an easy swap
Does it have to do something with my Mac thinking it’s a “USB Sega Virtua Stick” when I first pluged it in?
Does the fact that a Paradise Cthulhu is seen as a Sega Virtua Stick in my Macintosh OS 10.14 suggest a PC update will solve it?
But you will need to use Windows to update the MCC.
Is it supposed to cause an error on a Macintosh Safari web browser, or did you mistype the link? I can’t tell if this works on a PC or not. So I’m going to have to wait for my guy Stan to try it
Recheck the link, make sure it works, and correct it if it doesn’t work.
This is the link I got, directly copying and pasting previous link:
Double check the typing and make sure it works on a PC.
But thank you anyway, Roostaar for giving the link. I just can’t confirm.
“USB Sega Virtua Stick” is how the MCC is recognized in PS3/PC mode. So that’s normal.
If your board works on PS3/PC and Dreamcast, then at least those cables/pins are correct.
As I mentioned above in this thread, PS1/PS2 + USB is the best/easiest indicator to tell that your board’s wiring is correct.
USB uses pins 1-5-6-8 on the RJ-45.
Dreamcast uses pins 1-3-4-7-8
That leaves pin #2 unaccounted/untested.
The weird situation is that the original Xbox is just USB, so it uses the same pins.
Gamecube cables use pins 1-7-8.
So there’s no reason those two should not work.
Probably your cables are problematic then.
I don’t know if he tried the other ones, but the ones he said were Game Cube controller on Wii, (i don’t know if he’s using wii software, most of which does not use the Game Cube Controller, or is using Game Cube software on the B/C Wii. it might be a title issue.) an SNES and a PS2. i don’t know if he tried the others.
The link is working for me. iMac & Safari. Goes to the page and downloads the file automatically for me.
This is the error I get:
As I told you on the phone before you hung up on me (and previously on Susan as well that day and several times before you hung up on me in the past when you didn’t get the answers you wanted to hear) you need to have your modder check the pin out of the cables being used and test continuity from one end to the other. If he doesn’t know, then you need to have him come here and ask what to do, or call the right people. I can’t help you if you hang up on us and don’t let us finish talking.
If one retro console is working over RJ45 and one over USB, it’s most likely not the board that has the problem but either the work being done or the cables being used. Your modder should know how to check continuity between the components.
Right now the best thing you can do for yourself is have the guy doing the work come here and get the information he needs and step away from being the middle man relaying information from us to him and then him to us.
Wow, I’m glad I decided to avoid this guy. I saw he was bat-shit crazy right from the first message I got from him about RJ45 cables, and I decided to cut him loose right then and there.
Your patience and tolerance with this guy is impressive.
Three important question about RJ-45 Wiring.
Is it universal Rj-5 wiring, where if you take apart a male end, connect it to the right ports, leave the other male end intact, and put a double female in between, the i sit simple plug and play swapping assuming the parts I got online are R45 wired wt a male ad conected to the controll port.
Are all of terse RJ-45 retro adapters tristandard, or are they specific for one standard. The 3 being Cthulhu, 360+, and Brook Retro. If tristadard, then I assume the PCB handles the difference so the Cthulhu has a Duke friendly XBox mapping and 360+ use their PS2-pad logic Xbox mapping, wihtout having to physically alter the internal wiring on the Xbox adapter.
If premade adapters are tristandard and have an RJ45 male end, but is notplug and play swapping, what would be a good techinque to make it plug and play, though it may reqire an extra RJ45 double male ad Double female…
P.S. please call Stanley in California, I’m reliiyng on him, ad we can’t ccntinue untl you help wiht the RJ45 issue. I don’t think you ever called him. I’m telling you Stanley is my hired builded> Convey tech info to him.
He’s got my joystick and got the USB PS3 working, and the Dreamcast RJ45, But none of the other ones. I thought I conveyed the idea of using left to right order, not following colors. He followed colors. if you folowc colros andf not geopraphical order, would the onlty one that works be Drreamcast? Or is something else going on?
Why the fuck should Paradise Arcade call “Stanley”? Get him to contact PA instead.
Why hasn’t your modder joined this forum yet?
It is not PA’s prerogative nor responsibility to call Stanley on your behalf.
The only reason why I’m posting here is because Tim monitors it, Stanley called and couldn’t reach Tim 3 times in 3 weeks. If it’s tough to get to Tim by phone, maybe I can through ShoRyuKen.
I think I’m running into the PS2/PS1 issue you discussed earlier in the thread. I have two sticks with MC Cthulhus in them, and having oddities in that only one of them will work most of the time when both are plugged in. If I’m plugging or unplugging, it’s typically the last plugged in.
sometimes works when no memory card is plugged in, or if I boot to the PS1 white screen and then quickly reset
it’s a PSone fwiw
don’t know if it’s like a non standard voltage or what
if I only have one plugged in on either side, it always works fine. if a controller in on port and a stick in the other, also fine
Anybody ever run into this and if so, know a workaround? Doesn’t seem like my board is bad, because both are behaving the same way. Thanks in adv for any help
I got a message formPara=dise arcade Shop. Tim, who monitor this SRK thread, no longer works for Paradise, so it will be a while before you get web help.
Also the phone number to Tim’s Paradiser numbr is shut down and Paradsie’s main phone number has a prerecorded message with no chance to leave a message.
Me and Stan are trying to get some help.
Also does anyone know how to send an email to Payapl from a mail program, not their weebsite something in the form of "somethng@paypal.com".
Apparently none of Paypal’s text chat tech can seem to understand me.
If someone can, this can help solve a spat between me ands Paradise.
Has anyone ever successfully used the MC Cthulhu SNES cable on Donkey Kong Country? My MC Cthulhu only seems to work on certain games, and DKC is not one of them. My NES controller only works sporadically as well.