Unicycler17's GCP worklog FINISHED

[unicycler17]

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I desoldered EVERYTHING and re-wired it all. I soldered through the holes, instead of surface soldering, and I'm sure I did it all correctly. This time, the red light on the wiikey went on and stayed on, and the cube just gave me an error.

I used controller wire.... could that be the problem? too thin?

 

[Ashen]

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Sounds like your card reader cable is inserted upside down. If you are looking at the top of the modchip the thicker blue endpeices of the FFC cable should be facing upwards so that you see the blue stuff sticking out of the slot a bit from the top of the chip, this goes for the cardreader side as well. Red light on the chip usually indicates a card reader error of some sort. It may be your wire size but I doubt it, cant hurt to try some thicker stuff though. Use IDE wire, its great. If that's not it you may have fried something. :/

 

[unicycler17]

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I've got the ffc installed with the blue side upward... still a red light. I think I may have inserted the cable upside down earlier though. So the wiikey may be fried. If only I had a wii to test the chip on.....

I got some IDE wire, but I can't effectively sepparate the wires. The copper always gets exposed when I try. It's sooooo thin though!

EDIT: I hadn't hooked up the 3.3v So I did now, and it still doesn't work. Now the red light isn't on, and the blue light flickers, but it still won't work.

 

[A14]

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I'm Not an expert when it comes to portables, But try an NES if its your first one. Its less work and its simpler.

 

[unicycler17]

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I'm Not an expert when it comes to portables, But try an NES if its your first one. Its less work and its simpler.

to me, that would be a waste of money. And I'm not failing @ the gamecube, I just can't wire up the wiikey. But neither could hackmodford, and he's a pro.

I'm 95 percent sure I wired the wiikey properly. However, It still won't work and might be fried. Understandably, none of my friends will let me borrow a wii so I can test it. Since the connector is 36 pins, and the wiikey is 32, Ive tried taking out and re-inserting the ffc cable, thinking the connections might be ever so slightly off. The LED's on the wiikey change when I do this, which might mean I am still not plugging it in perfectly.

I also ordered a new cube, and I wont remove the drive connectors on it. It will take up more space, but I think I can easily just use the disc drive, not relocated.

 

[unicycler17]

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heres a crappy webcam pic of my primed case front. Gonna do a tab bit more sanding, then make it blue. I'm using a nintendo controller on the left, and a buttons from a mini wireless madcatz pad on the right.

Edit: look at it

 

[unicycler17]

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I'm really pleased with the front of the case. Not so happy with the back, but I didn't put any effort into it. The disc cover is just a round tupperware peice that I shrunk down, painted, glued the gamecube piece too, and velcro'd onto the drive.

I did all the casework on the back with the drive inside so I really hope it still actually works. But Tchay says it's easy to replace lens' to fix drive errors. I hope I wont need to though.

For the left controls, I will just screw the official controller directly to the epoxied in shell piece, and have wires running from the rest of the board to the other side.

 

[Hugo_Peters]

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The WiiKey is a pain for me to solder. Well I soldered it 6 times until I mentioned that I had the FFC upside down. And when I mentioned it I already messed up my connector.
That's why I've let Zenl0c do it for me!

 

[unicycler17]

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If I make another gcp after this one, I'll definetly use the wiikey. But I just think that the zn45 is such a massive case, Having a disc drive on the back doesn't really make a large difference in size. Using gc disks in a portable also is just awesome.

 

[unicycler17]

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grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Everything was going so well! I was going to finish this weekend! But I couldn't get the B button to work, and then somehow I managed to screw up and rip the controller piece out a little. I'll try fixing it, but it won't look as good as before..... I might just restart and vaccuum form.

 

[Hugo_Peters]

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grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Everything was going so well! I was going to finish this weekend! But I couldn't get the B button to work, and then somehow I managed to screw up and rip the controller piece out a little. I'll try fixing it, but it won't look as good as before..... I might just restart and vaccuum form.

You're kinda like me, messing up everything

 

[bud]

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Don't restart. Reinforce the controller section from the back with either epoxy or JB-weld. Then sand the paint off of the area (or the whole case if you want it perfect again) then just use spot filler to fix it up then repaint. Easy peasy.

 

[unicycler17]

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The crack isn't actually too bad.... and I'm really sick of doing casework. I reinforced the inside with hot glue, and I doubt it'll break more unless I force it too. I got the B button working now, so thats a plus.

I think the reason it broke may have been that the epoxy and jb weld was between paint and plastic, rather than plastic and plastic, since I redid the case to use the controller pieces. I'll be more careful next time around I guess.

 

[unicycler17]

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look bacteria's button method for the dpad

I don't like it

 

[unicycler17]

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wired up all controls.
Was having problems with joystick, but examined, found bridge, and fixed.

For some reason, I cant get any of the shoulder buttons to work. I'm just using momentary switches, and they act as if they are nc switches, as if theyre always pressed. The exact same thing happened was happening back when my case looked different, only with the triggers. I was using the same switches, so i thought they might be broken,but when I tested them with my multimeter, they worked fine.

I think I'll try tacts, or other switches, unless someone has a more effective solution

 

[unicycler17]

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Okay so I desoldered the switches from the wires, but left the wires soldered to the controller trigger traces. I played ssb with no issues, then rebooted it and was getting shields without pressing anything. So I guess i've got some tiny bridges that I need to fix.

 

[unicycler17]

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I am positive there are no bridges on my trigger lines. There are no wires connected to l, r, or z, and yet they are acting weird.

In ssb, It will be fine for a few seconds, then all of a sudden I will not be able to get rid of shield, as if I'm pressing L or R constantly, and my character stands in the grabbing position, like I was pushing down on the Z button. After another 20 seconds or so, My character will start doing backflips..... I don't even know what that means.

Should I try wiring everything up with a third party controller? Because when I tried to wire the triggers with a different official controller, I had the same problem....... I don't really have another controller though, except a wii classic type one.

Please Help!

 

[Tchay]

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I am positive there are no bridges on my trigger lines. There are no wires connected to l, r, or z, and yet they are acting weird.

In ssb, It will be fine for a few seconds, then all of a sudden I will not be able to get rid of shield, as if I'm pressing L or R constantly, and my character stands in the grabbing position, like I was pushing down on the Z button. After another 20 seconds or so, My character will start doing backflips..... I don't even know what that means.

Should I try wiring everything up with a third party controller? Because when I tried to wire the triggers with a different official controller, I had the same problem....... I don't really have another controller though, except a wii classic type one.

Please Help!

lol yes. this is completely normal. When there is nothing wired up for L and R, the controller doesn't know what to do. The gamecube starts being like "lulwut L&R lmao".

....wire them up and you will be fine. Same problem will happen for the joysticks if they aren't wired up FYI.

 

[unicycler17]

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ooooohhh gotcha thanks. And I only had the all the way closed circuits wired up before when they were wired up, so I guess thats why I still had l and r problems.


Edit: Wait then why would I be having issues with z?

 

[unicycler17]

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grrrr I would be finishing today... but I can't get my screen working. And the voltage input pad got ripped off of the lcd driver board as I tried to find out what the problem was. I tested the cube on a different screen, and it worked fine.

EDIT: Ordered a new screen.... now I should be able to finish in a few weeks when it gets here