Posted by David C on January 22, 2002 at 22:47:43:
In Reply to: Help here. posted by Agent Davis on January 22, 2002 at 22:11:10:
Thank you Agent Davis for your help. I just have a couple questions because I don't know too much about how inputs/grounds work.
1)What would happen if I Just connected the input "up" of the ke72 and the "up" of the dreamcast, the "down", etc.? Would there be a conflict?
2) Where would I connect the grounds? Into one of the inputs or just group them all together?
3) Is there a way to do it for 4 players because if u look at the pic of my cab in the post called "pic of cab" it's got 4 joysticks etc.
Agent Davis, lemme say again that your reply was extremely helpful. Thank you
: 1) Get an ABC db25 switchbox with female connectors (standard, male will work to but for ease of this tutorial we'll use female.) Note: Male refers to the cables with the pins coming out and female refers to the end with the holes (yeah, like the birds and the bees).
: 2) Get 2 Male to Male (shameless *snicker* here) DB25 Cables and cut each in half. You should now have 4 cables with Male ends and 25 wires coming out of each cable. (Note: Your cable may only have 24 pins in which case the 25th is the metal frame of the cable with a bare wire in the group of 25.)
: 3) Now, wire everything up. Use one db25 cable for each pair of controllers and for the KE72. Make sure you wire everything with the corresponding pin. I.E. If you wire pin 1 to Player 1 UP on the control panel then make sure you wire pin 1 to Player 1 UP on the PSX, DC, and KE72.
: 4)After wiring is finished just plug into the switchbox and now you have a very simple way to switch between systems.
: I am currently implementing this method into my cabinet.
: Any further questions just ask.