A Little Pop'n Help Needed~

**animonger** · 02-24-2007, 10:39 PM

So I find myself googling and searching these boards for something comprehensive on building your own ASC. I found the (official ?) thread but there isn't much actual information as to *exactly* how to build your own ASC, with LED's, from the ground up. I've found Wayne's guide, and the other guide (dude with a blog) but I'd like some more in-depth information. Does anyone know of anything like this? Thanks.

Hortence:The Muleface Mod · 02-24-2007, 11:53 PM

What sort of information are you lacking? You can find help by posting in the Mod Central section of the Ransai website (ransai.com), we'll be glad to help, but are you looking for spacing diagrams? Wiring help? There's a lot to the whole process, and knowing what exactly you're getting caught up on would help quite a bit. Good luck!

**animonger** · 02-25-2007, 08:14 AM

The wiring diagrams/process are what I'm mainly having the most trouble on, something like a picture of a basic ps2 controller board with points highlighted exactly where I should solder to. Thanks for pointing me to the ransai board

Edit: Browsing the Ransai boards, and that is definitely the place for all this discussion, thanks for the arrows, I'll be lurking there now

Hortence:The Muleface Mod · 02-25-2007, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by animonger

The wiring diagrams/process are what I'm mainly having the most trouble on, something like a picture of a basic ps2 controller board with points highlighted exactly where I should solder to. Thanks for pointing me to the ransai board

Edit: Browsing the Ransai boards, and that is definitely the place for all this discussion, thanks for the arrows, I'll be lurking there now

Any time. A much more basic description of where you need to solder to is this: looking at your controller board, note the two halves of each button contact. Look where each is connected to in terms of solid lines or shapes on the board. If the side traces out and eventually connects with another button, that's the side that is the ground point of the button. The other is the control point.

You can either solder directly to the button contact (which might require scraping off some of the material on it) or to an exposed point along the trace on which side you need to use (control or ground).

Usually you only need one ground point soldered to, and have all of the buttons loop around to each other to use that same ground, but you can make that decision yourself.

The only reason it's hard to find soldering diagrams is PS1 controllers change designs very very frequently, especially between brands. No one picture will give you an exact idea of where you need to solder on your board; it's best to understand how the board works a bit and use that.

bigz · 06-06-2007, 10:00 PM

im having trouble with the wiring as well. we got it all hooked up and going but even though we short circuit the left right and down it doesn't see it as a asc type controller and i cant go through the menus with it.

Hortence:The Muleface Mod · 06-06-2007, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by bigz

im having trouble with the wiring as well. we got it all hooked up and going but even though we short circuit the left right and down it doesn't see it as a asc type controller and i cant go through the menus with it.

It could just be the type of controller you're using. Some brands of PS1 controllers don't allow for multiple directionals to be pressed at the same time, unfortunately. You're going to have to try a different controller board.

My suggestion is pick one, open it up, ground out the directionals, then plug it in like that and use a bare plunger to test the button functions. While you're at it try to pass some 5-line stuff like this. It's really hard, haha.

bigz · 06-06-2007, 10:12 PM

yeah we had that problem with the last controller it could only do 2 at a time, but this one can do all 3 and they are all being pushed. i also cant test it on my ps2 to usb thing because when i plug it in it sees all the buttons as being pushed. we've gone through 3 controllers already heh. 2 are mad cats 1 is an old sony ps1 controller. my friend screwed up on one of them and of course the 2 direction one failed and this one has super slow reaction time and it relaly sucked. it also made me think i suck more than i do at popn haha. i couldn't even pass like lvl 20s. and when i play on my other friends(i can seem to get a hold of him anymore :/)