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DC Padhack

Hi Folks,

here you can find how to a padhack for the original DC Pad including making of the DC-Cable for it.

Padhack:

Pin	Color
1	black	VCC Pin 2 (blue)	Pin 2 CN1
2	white	7 Hard Punch FIE=FIERCE	Left Trigger
3	grey	DOWN	DOWN
4	purple	UP	UP
5	blue	RIGHT	RIGHT
6	green	LEFT	LEFT
7	yellow	1 SHO=SHORT Light Kick	A (green)
8	orange	5 JAB Light Punch	X (blue)
9	red	2 FOR=FORWARD Medium Kick	B (red)
10	braun	6 STR=STRONG Medium Punch	Y (yellow)
11	black	L-PB SEL=SELECT
12	white	R-PB RB0 Start	Start
13	grey	3 ROU=ROUNDHOUSE Strong Kick	Right Trigger
14	purple	DC 1 Pin 1 (red)	Pin1 CN1
15	blue	GND Pin 3 (black)	Pin3 CN1
16	green	DC 2 Pin 5 (white)	Green usb cable
17	yellow	RA1	LTrigger
18	orange	RA0	LButton
19	red	DC PB Select
20	braun	RB4	Guide

Pictures:

Dreamcast Cable:

Pictures of Sub-D 15 pin male:



soldering 

DC Pinout

DC-Connector CN1 		Sub-D 15 pin male: 

Pin	Description		Pin	Description

1	Serial A   (red)	1	3 (GND)

2	VCC +5V (blue)	2	Low

3	GND      (black)	3	Low

4	Sense     (green)	4	High

5	Serial B  (white)	5	High

                            6	Low

                            7	Low

                            8	2 (VCC +5V)

                             ______________________

                            9	NC - 

                            10	High

                            11	High

                            12	NC - 

                            13	1 Serial A (red)

                            14	5 Serial B (white)

                            15	Low

16. November 2009

the body continues..

Today I done the backbox and doing some assembling of the body

I hope I am ready on saturday with a „beta“ Version. And can take it to the

Party at Luigi and Capt. Kirk…

backbox

pinbody assembling

12. November 2009
Accurate hole for fan

Its my first time to use a router for a accurate hole. First test looks good.

router@ work

hole done

11. November 2009
Pinbody Release 2.0

I changed my mind from mdf to a material in black.

It needs more accuracy in wood preparation like diagonal cutting

The advantage of new material is no need to paint 🙂

diagonal cutting

First assembly

first assembly in black

10. November 2009
Pinbody Part2

For the first checkup, LCD inside

LCD inside

6. November 2009
PinBody Part 1

I am currently building the body of the pinball.

Fist I have to cut down the sides so it looks like an pinball.

I screwed both together and make one cut, so both sides are identical

cutting two sides in one working prozess

For a first feeling i put the wood parts together

First buildup

After this I must do an T-Molding for the PVC.

T-Molding for pvc holder glass

The PVC will hold the glasses of the playfield.

pvc holder for glass

Here is the first look including siderails + lockbar

siderails+lockbar

The next step is to measure the size of the playfield glas for ordering it..

to be continued

4. November 2009
LCD work for Pinball

After a view weeks I managed to remove the cover.

But after removing the PCBs/electronics are loose. They must be re-attached in a way.

I take some wood for reattachment

turning back to have the first look of the native display

Now its time for wood stuff

and the widelockbar

28. Oktober 2009
AimTrak for Beretta gun

I like Beretta Guns, but until now there was no way to use them with Arcade Cabs.

A month ago ultimarc give us a new product called AimTrak. It is like the Wii Remote with a Camera inside and a Sensorbar at the top of screen.

We have some good old BerettaGuns left for XBOX1 and I ripped of original stuff to make them working with AimTrak and my Arcade Cab.

The procedure tooks 3-4h of work *puh*

Here you can find the gun

Here you can find the AimTrak

Little Video

I tried it at my arcade cabinet with a crt put the senorsar in top of the screen and it works absolutly *great* Fun ONLY

Here are some pictures of the progress:

good old Thrustmaster Beretta Gun

"Sensorbar"

The Sensorbar only need 5V powersupply. So it is connected to a USB Port for powering.

First 2 screws

Opening Part is easy

First 2 screws

First 2 screws

First 2 screws

good position of the B-Button downside

First 2 screws

First 2 screws

First 2 screws

First 2 screws

First 2 screws

original photoeye

for fitting into the beretta it was neccacary to reduce the size of the AimTrak

comparing original size and reduced / Wires

And do some rewiring

Wiring including 5 Buttons.

Fire, Reload B, Reload A, back, and start
The original AimTrak can use 2 Buttons with a connector.

There are 5 more if you can solder

I used this device to cut off the pcb

rewiring buttons a,b @ side of gun

Wiring Button A, B

First 2 screws

Wiring back and Start for use of Coins, and Start/Continue

First 2 screws

First 2 screws

I make use of a 3m USB Cable and solderd it directly to the AimTrak

First 2 screws

Here we go

First 2 screws

In front you can see the new „eye“

21. Oktober 2009

UPCB Playstation Cable

today I got my PSX Cable to work.

It is the 3rd extionscable I was using.

Dedicated Digital Playstion cable for UPCB

Console	Function	Color	D-Sub	Bridge	Bridge	Function	Color
1	DATA	brown	1	Low		GND	black
2	CMD	orange	2	Low
3	7 to 9V	white	3	Low
4	GND	black	4		High
5	3,4V	red	5			ATT	yellow
6	ATT	yellow	6	Low
7	CLK	blue	7	Low
8	n/c		8		High	VCC	red
9	ACK	Green	9
			10		High
			11	Low
			12			CMD	orange
			13			ACK	green
			14			DATA	brown
			15			CLK	blue

19. Oktober 2009

upcb PC-Engine Cable trouble

I currently trying a PC-Engine Cable but it didn’t work 🙁

testing with: 2 differnt ucpb rev 2.1 Software 2.5 BP

Have checked both a white pce and a jap. Duo Engine.

Here is the wiring

Checked the VCC and Gnd with a Multimeter

16. Oktober 2009