Ashen said:
Controller cut looks nice man, I've also wired a few up like you have to test and everything works nicely so far except rumble. I'm kind of at a loss as to why I haven't been able to relocate that little portion of the controller and have it work. I'm still working it out though.
Heh, I don't care much for rumble, Not a big fan of it in portables either, although I can't say I've tried it. I started the cut with shears, but after cutting just a tiny bit I realized that whatever this particular board was made of, shears wasn't the best tool for the job. BREAK OUT THE MULTIMAX DREMEL AWW YEA. Had that baby cut in 10 seconds flat.
My thoughts on getting rumble to work is a matter of getting a good sanded board scan, I mean, the GC controller is only two layers, so with some clear pics it should only be a matter of finding and reconnecting all the right things, but you knew that. I'll see if I can find an old controller board somewhere; I don't remember seeing any scans out there yet.
Kyosho said:
Very nice, sir. Question: If you're using slot A for both SD Gecko and memory card functions, do you need slot B for anything homebrew related? I see you've got both wired up, so I'm curious. I haven't actually delved far into the GC software stuff yet.
Yes(kinda). I'm not sure entirely what each cup of brew prefers, but I DO know that the memory card managers require the SD in one slot and the memory card in the other. I mean, I'm sure a program could be coded to have the save get stored in the RAM and then you just swap out the card and it writes automatically, but I don't know if that exists yet, probably not considering most code is written for (mostly) unmodified gamecubes. Theoretically you could just have one SD slot for everything if you wanted to.
What would be awesome, is if someone could conjure up some sort of small switching circuit, and have the memory cards hardwired in as well as two SD card slots. Using the SD card slot's "sense" feature, you could have it "turn off" the internal memory cards and just use the SD cards.
That'd be ideal. Especially considering how having two SD slots means my memory card is external, I have to find some way to make it non-obtrusive so it doesn't get in the way when I put the portable in my pocket. Probably going to cut an adjacent slot, then plastic this thing up so it's kinda like a big staple.
Got me some new tweezers, they are quite nice.
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