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Subarticle of DIYing a plug that fits the... | PlayStation development | Published 2022-02-27 19:34:14 UTC
Alright, so I did the first continuity check and only 4 out of the total 30 pins were bad (one data pin and 3 address pins), which is by no means perfect (the connector won't work properly when a single pin is bad), but it's way better than I was expecting. Upon looking inside my connector, yeah,...
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Subarticle of DIYing a plug that fits the... | PlayStation development | Published 2022-02-27 18:53:06 UTC
Well that's definitely not good. There are 3 pins that did this: one in the front (in the red circle), one in the middle and one all the way in the back of the connector (I figured this out by looking at the mating part of the connector – I saw 3 pins pushed in). There is perhaps a reason w...
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Subarticle of DIYing a plug that fits the... | PlayStation development | Published 2022-02-27 17:31:49 UTC
Ladies and gentlemen, She's in. Tomorrow (or even today, if I make it), I'll take the console apart and test the continuity (and detect potential shorts) between the pins to make sure it's making full contact. I've hooked up the power lines, chip select, read enable, the first 8 bits of the...
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Subarticle of DIYing a plug that fits the... | PlayStation development | Published 2022-02-24 07:23:05 UTC
On the previous post, MottZilla asked me whether I plan to create a PCB-mount version of this connector. First of all, thank you so much for expressing interest in my little project. But to answer your question: currently, I intend to solder directly to the connector just to prove that it works....
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Subarticle of DIYing a plug that fits the... | PlayStation development | Published 2022-02-20 14:29:58 UTC
First of all, thank you to everyone for giving me advice. About the Cybdyn Systems deal: they offered to sell me 4 connectors for $30 AUD, so around $21.53 USD ? $5.38 USD per connector. Actually very reasonable, considering that these are purpose-made connectors. However, I did not go through ...
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Subarticle of DIYing a plug that fits the... | PlayStation development | Published 2022-02-19 21:04:29 UTC
So, the fine folks over at Cybdyn Systems have actually responded to my request: Uh-oh. Well, that immediately tells me that the total price will be in the human organ territory, and since I am a broke student (who would really like to keep his kidneys intact, thank you very much), that probab...
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Subarticle of DIYing a plug that fits the... | PlayStation development | Published 2022-02-19 14:55:09 UTC
I have now contacted Cybdyn Systems through their JIRA Service Desk (because you can't just send them an e-mail...), we'll see if they respond. Sadly, I won't post an update to the project today, since the school homework deadline is dangerously approaching. I might post one tomorrow, depends on ...
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Subarticle of DIYing a plug that fits the... | PlayStation development | Published 2022-02-18 21:33:02 UTC
Hello everyone yet again! 😀 First of all, I have slightly modified the model of the connector's base – I made the pin holes a bit larger, since inserting them was impossible in certain holes due to printer inconsistency (printing 0.6 mm wide holes is a hard, trust me – now they are ~0.7 m...
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Subarticle of DIYing a plug that fits the... | PlayStation development | Published 2022-02-17 17:06:35 UTC
Hey! Made some progress on the project, as promised. Yesterday's post was written in quite a hurry, so it may not be as comprehensible as I would like it to be. Sorry about that, hopefully this post will fix that. My intention for this project is to make a fully-working PlayStation parallel por...
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PlayStation development | Published 2022-02-16 20:34:17 UTC
In this thread, I describe my journey of making a simple plug at home (using off-the-shelf parts) that fits the original Sony PlayStation's parallel expansion port. As of this time, I have failed quite badly.
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