Does a CPS2 Kick Harness use common ground?

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Blaine

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Or does it have it's own?

I noticed on a diagram of it it had a 'kick-ground', but does that ground run back to the common ground on the board? Or do I have to actually run 4 wires to the harness (k1, k2, k3, ground)?
 
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On my supergun, I used a 25 pin D cable, so I only had space for 2 grounds, one for each player, since I also needed start for each player and a coin button. No problems what so ever, ground is ground.
 
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Which is what I figured. I mean, usually a button is held high and registered as 'pressed' when it's grounded. I should be able to lick the wire and have it 'ground'.

But I wanted to ask before I started soldering my supergun! ha ha.

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Just a wild question, can I use one ground for the joystick, 4 buttons and a start button? or will i need atleast 2 grounds?
 
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Ground is Ground

Your not drawing amps so 1 line will do.
 
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If you have a meter, and you measure over 5 ohms of resistance on a ground line, then you might have a problem, but for this stuff, anything pretty much works.
 
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thchardcore said:
On my supergun, I used a 25 pin D cable, so I only had space for 2 grounds, one for each player, since I also needed start for each player and a coin button. No problems what so ever, ground is ground.
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You actually use 25 pins or is that for both players combined?
 
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Uh, am I doing something wrong? Out of all the wires coming out of the kick harness I'm probably using a total of 12, if not less? :conf:
 
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Sounds like you have the 4 player harness. The kick harness only has like 7 wires.
 
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Xian Xi said:
Sounds like you have the 4 player harness. The kick harness only has like 7 wires.
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Some third party harnesses are fully wired...

I used to have one.

Of course don't forget the Sound controls and shit.
 
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7 and 12?

Mine has 6.

cps2kick.jpg


I'm using USB connectors to connect kick harnesses to my supergun controllers and I have exactly 6 wires (violet, grey, white, orange, blue, green) First 3 are Player 1, Second 3 are Player 2.
 
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