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cyberey66
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0.  Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:15 pm Post subject: pinouts on redoctane pads |
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I just got a redoctane pad from the forums, and its awesome. I'm making my own control box so I can use my redoctane on usb as well. Since I had a usb controller from an old pad, and I bought a radioshack adapter not knowing better, I used that to hookup my pad so I could use it on my computer without waiting for shipping time to get an adapter. I just cut up a monitor cable and soldered the pins I traced out for the arrows onto my monitor cable, and it worked.
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~mcyberey/ghettoddr.jpg
I traced out the arrows and pins 11-14 are the arrows and 15 is a ground. I tried to show the numbers below.
\......*.*.*.*.*.../ #1-5
...\..*.*.*.*.*.../ #6-10
....\..*.*.*.*.*./ #11-15
I want to add the x and o buttons and make the leds work. To save me the time of pinning out all the pins, does anyone know or know where I can get them? The side of the pad states 3.45v 5mA, so I'm guessing that is for the leds. Since I can only get 5v from my usb pad I'm guessing a 300ohm resistor would work to drop it down to the right voltage. I said guessing because my math might be wrong.
Here's what my box will look like if anyone cares, its a radioshack 8''x3''x1'' box with 3 buttons. All they had were round ones, and this is the only suitable box they had, but it will work even better than the redoctane ones because its 3 buttons not 2.
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~mcyberey/posbox.gif
When I finish this if anyone wants to see pics or anthing I'll post whatever. All you need is a box, wire, buttons, 15pin connection, soldering iron and whatever controller you want to use. It should cost less than the redoctane boxs.
If this has been posted before, just give me a link and spare the flames. |
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Dur'rian
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| 1. Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| hey maybe you can help me, what color wire goes to each arrow (for the wire that noramlly would connect into the control box). If you tell me thi I can fix my pad and be able to play at home again. |
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cyberey66
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| 2. Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Dur'rian wrote: | | hey maybe you can help me, what color wire goes to each arrow (for the wire that noramlly would connect into the control box). If you tell me thi I can fix my pad and be able to play at home again. |
My box is almost setup, I soldered all 15 wires to the connection, placed the pcb, and the buttons in my box. I just need to pinout all the pins and solder them to the board. I can help you further when I'm done with that. I PMed you back as well. |
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cyberey66
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| 3. Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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finished the box, except I didnt get the leds to work, but all the buttons arrows, and x and o work. Stupid leds, I probally have to open up the pad to figure out how they are controlled
pics,
if anyone can help me hookup the leds I would be happy, I hope its not a controller inside the control box that controls them, if it is, I think just putting the leds on the same path as the arrow buttons should work, but thats more work.
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Dur'rian
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| 4. Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:39 am Post subject: |
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| if I need to resauder the wires to the connector, which color wire would go to which part of the connector? |
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cyberey66
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| 5. Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| Dur'rian wrote: | | if I need to resauder the wires to the connector, which color wire would go to which part of the connector? |
all you need to know is pins 11-14 are the arrows and they are in order, darker blue, orange, green, brown, and 15 is just ground black.
all the colors are;
1-pink
2-white(up left)
3-darker brown (ground)
4-red (up right)
5-white (ground)
6-red
7-grey
8-blue(two same color so you need to pinout which one is the arrow)
9-light purple
10-yellow
11-blue (right arrow)
12-orange (left arrow)
13-green (down arrow)
14-darker brown (up arrow)
15-black (ground)
They use some f'ed up colors here, grounds are random colors, and double colors are used. You really need a battery and an led, or a multimeter to pinout the arrows and grounds. If all you want is the arrows, all you need to solder is the grounds and the arrows to their pins, the rest is for the LEDs, and I have no idea how they work. |
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diddrstrait
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| 6. Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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wait, you did all that work to make it work on a PC?
about $10 on ebay would've gotten you a working usb adapter in about a week to two weeks depending on if you paid with a money order or used paypal  |
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cyberey66
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| 7. Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Syncognition wrote: | wait, you did all that work to make it work on a PC?
about $10 on ebay would've gotten you a working usb adapter in about a week to two weeks depending on if you paid with a money order or used paypal |
haha, I know, but I have no patience :o). My protoype thingy cost me no money and took like 20 mins, and it took only a couple days to get the parts and make my box. But ripoff shack charges so much damn money for $0.10 parts, that the box cost like $20. For that much I probally could of got real ddr arcade buttons online. But redoctane's usb box is $25 plus shipping, so I look at that price instead of the adapter price to make me happy. I also just realized I can just wire this box and make 2 ports on it so if I get another pad I can use one box. I didnt think of grouping the arrows and left right selection buttons and save 2 extra buttons. I have 10 bottons on my usb controller total, so I would have to ditch solo buttons which I think are worthless anyways. |
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diddrstrait
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| 8. Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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yeah that redoctane adapter is actually a generic mayflash adapter, so you can find them everywhere for way cheaper. but at any rate, what you did to your pad is called bridging, which a lot of people freak out about and mess up. good job getting it figured out though  |
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