EVE

High-res

 Installed Eve because it sounded interesting and I thought I might enjoy it. I do, but no one told me it was this pretty. Multi-monitor FTW.

High-res

MemoryCard Captor Sakura (DPadPro ver.)

One side effect of fixing my 5501 was that I now had a non-working 9001. This presented the opportunity to use the parts for something else. This adapter makes it possible to use original PlayStation controllers and memory cards(like a DexDrive) on a PC through the parallel port. Follow the schematic here. Use the DirectPadPro layout.

The hardware:

• Store bought PCI card with two serial ports and a parallel port. If your computer has a parallel port already you won't need this.
• Dead PlayStation
• PSU. Supplies 7.6 and 3.6 volts.
• Controller ports
• Controller. Any type should work. Mine are DualShock
• Memory card. Any type should work. The one I have now is Interact, in the past I have used official Sony cards as well.
• A bunch of wire
• DB25 male plug
• DB25 straight through cable

The software:

• PortTalk. Required to talk to the parallel port in Windows XP.
• MemoryCard Captor Sakura. I recommend the version here.
• Win95/98: DirectPadPro
• WinXP: PPJoy

The PSU pinout is:

1 7.6V 

2 GND

3 3.6V

4 GND

5 MOUT (reset signal)

MemoryCard Captor Sakura showing the contents of my memory card.

Early wiring. The lights are on :)

Done, tested and working.

Put it all back in the PlayStation case.

Ta-da

PlayStation

So I bought a couple of PlayStations recently for a project; a 9001 and a 5501. Yesterday I bought an RF switch and a GameShark.

Unsatisfied with the performance of the drive unit in the 5501, I tested the 9001's drive in it. It worked, but the cables were the wrong length.

Undeterred, I took apart the laser units and swapped the guts. I now have a perfectly working 5501 and a fairly gutted 9001 :D

Used the double swap trick to boot a burned CD that flashed my GameShark to AHOY! .34

My X68000 HDD Image

This is my own personal image. It has lots of things.Get It.

Defcon 20 Badge

I went to Defcon in Las Vegas this year. They gave us these fancy badges with Parallax Propeller CPU's. They're weird things but they run 80MHz and can be made to drive VGA. I've finally got around to doing some work on it.

I added full extended ASCII support to the High Res VGA Text demo. More to come.

Epic desk is epic

Wipeout XL Error Message of the Day

if ( !v11 )
        OutputDebugStringA("Oh bugger\n");