NoahsMyBro Posted June 6, 2002 Share Posted June 6, 2002 -- I posted this in Classic Gaming General and got no responses. Any of you want to try your luck? -- Have any of you guys used DPadPro and connected a CX-40 to your PC? I cannot get it to work, and am wondering if anybody here can help. The only deviation I've made from the schematic is the wattage of the 2 resistors I used. Radio Shack doesn't sell 1/8 watt, so I used 1/4 watt or 1 watt (I don't remember which) resistors. My problem is that only the fire button is seen by the PC. Moving the joystick is undetected, either in the configuration of PCAEWin 2.6 or the Game Controller Calibration control panel applet within Windows. Thinking I may have a faulty connection in my wiring of the adapter, I whipped out my multimeter. It confirms a connection on each of the straight through lines, and where I'd expect a 10k resistance, it reads the resistance at 9.8-9.9x. I wired the adapter for the 2-button Atari/SMS sticks, assuming I could use 1-button sticks with it. I've tried 2 CX-40s, and an Epyx 500j with 2 buttons. I've tried using the LPT port built-in to my Dell Dimension 4100's motherboard, as well as one of the LPT ports on a Siig CyberPCI dual parallel-port card. Only the fire-buttons register in Windows. Do any of you know what's wrong? A coworker explained to me that the wattage of the resistors (they don't meet the spec) should have no bearing on how they affect the circuit's logical performance, & I'd expect the resistors to only affect the fire-button functionality anyway, and that part works fine. If the resistors are causing the problem, where could I find 1/8 watt resistors retail? Hell, while I'm asking, does anybody know where I may find .39ohm resistors to repair a Dreamcast with broken controller ports? Thanks, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 Do you have a link to where the schematics for this are located? Mitch http://atari7800.atari.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoahsMyBro Posted June 7, 2002 Author Share Posted June 7, 2002 http://www.arcadecontrols.com/Mirrors/www....el.com/dpadpro/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 Hmm, the schematic looks pretty straight forward. What version of windows are you running? Mitch http://atari7800.atari.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoahsMyBro Posted June 7, 2002 Author Share Posted June 7, 2002 Well, I couldn't get any emulators & Thrust to work satisfactorily under Win2k, so for this I'm booting into Windows 98SE. I've been thinking I should try altering my parallel port setting (Std, ECP, EPP, etc..), but I haven't had the time to deal with this since I posted. Considering I wanted to do this in order to compete in the Thrust+ contest, and that ends June 9, if I don't get this resolved soon it's all moot. If I figure anything out over the weekend I'll post back and let you guys know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Yeah, you can try playing with the LPT port modes. I didn't see anywhere on the site what it needed to be set on, but I imagine you would need at least bi-directional. Mitch http://atari7800.atari.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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