+5v as common for an AES stick

MKL · Aug 3, 2002

I know that the old style stick uses ground as common whereas the newer controllers use +5v. What I need to know is this:

If I want to build a custom AES controller can I choose either ground (pin 1) or +5v (pin 8) as common? Doesn't it make any difference?

Or, in other terms: If I take an old style stick and replace its cable with that of, say, a CD controller, will the modded stick (with +5v as common) work with an AES system just like an original (with ground as common) would?

Amano Jacu · Aug 4, 2002

Check my last post on this topic:

<a href="http://www.neo-geo.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=002215" target="_blank">http://www.neo-geo.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=002215</a>

Somebody e-mailed me some info about that, I can't confirm it, but he said <a href="http://www.gamesx.com" target="_blank">www.gamesx.com</a> is wrong about that.

Anyway I don't see what your target is. Why don't use a PC controller extension cable and GND as common?

MKL · Aug 4, 2002

Uhm...so the CD pad would use gnd as common just like an old style stick, eh? Oh well...I could test all these things very easily if I only had the pad or, regarding my original question, an AES...

Originally posted by Amano Jacu:
<strong>I don't see what your target is. Why don't use a PC controller extension cable and GND as common?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Heh...well, I'm going to mod a Saturn pad to work with an AES for a friend of mine, but we just can't seem to find one of those extension cable, you know, the plastic type...so we thought we'd use a Neo CD pad and I needed to know if +5v could short any input just like gnd. But now if it's true that even the CD pad uses gnd as common there should be no problem...

Oh, thanks a lot for the info, Amano

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+5v as common for an AES stick

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