![]() ![]() So I jumpered from my START signal to the START GND and BOOYA it works. So I jumpered from START signal to my GND. So i pushed the original button down onto the circuit board to simlulate a button push. I checked continuity all the way from the CP to the Dreamcast and it's good. I did this: reduced to a single ground connection. Do this test for each button wire and you are done! If you get nothing, then the start button isn't soldered correctly (assuming the ground was verified in the previous step). Simple touch the ground wire bare end, to the start wire's bare end. ![]() Start testing with the "start" button wire, and work your way around to all the other wires. Next, hookup the hacked pad to your dreamcast, and turn it on (with a game loaded). Next, make sure your ground is actually touching ground, use a multimeter set to continuity test, and test one end of your ground wire to either that other ground wire, or the ground pin at the end of the DC cable (you will have to look this up on if you don't know which connector pin is ground). Next, remove the ground connection you made from one part of the pad to the other part.you only need one ground to use as a reference not two.I don't think this is the problem, but lets just take this out of the equation. First, you didn't mention if these wires were connected to an arcade joystick yet or not.if so, disconnect the joystick (so you are left with your hacked pad and each wire not connect to anything else). I'll look for a tutorial, but I'd appreciate any hints or suggestions. Could it just the quality of my soldering (which is admitedly fairly poor) or a short. I tried overlaying the original start button and pushing that down, but it doesn't seem to work. I later tied that to another ground point (I think the start button ground). The upper-right yellow wire is where I chose to pick ground off the board. I even tied in an extra ground to make sure that every section of the board was well grounded.Ĭan you see anything obvious from the pic? My wiring colors are random BTW. I double-checked my pin matching and it all seems right. I checked my connectivity with a multimeter and everything seems right. The start button seems to activate the "turbo" or whatever that button with the light is. Button presses seem to result in random input to the game. So without even reading a tutorial, I wired it up. I made the guy at EB-Games dig through a bin of old DC stuff to locate me two MadCatz controllers. so I gave up on the AstroPad due to the multiple grounds. Send us an email at s within 3 days of receipt of item.OK. Include photos of item/s and missing parts. Send us an email at within 3 days of receipt of item. Should the feedback from the manufacturer arrive, please provide a printed copy and send it back to us along with the defective product. Send us an email at with detailed description of the problem. ![]() Visit the product manufacturer’s website and notify them through the Customer Support that the items are faulty. Product is malfunctioning or is Dead on Arrival Send us an email at within 3 days of receipt of item stating the reason for rejection. Within 3 days from the time of receipt of item ![]()
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