Tonight’s Goals

Yesterday I picked up another SCPH-1001, OEM controller, and two third-party controllers. Inside of one of the third party controllers is a larger-than-the-Sony IC for converting button presses to the Playstation controller protocol. (The other is completely potted.)

I’m going to document that board (it’s very simple and not all the pins on the chip are used) and hopefully lift the chip and place it on a new, smaller board which I’ll make up. On this board I can leave large enough pads to solder to so that I don’t have the problem I had last time. Well, the soldering problem… The root of the problem is because I documented the Sony controller at around midnight, then didn’t double-check that documentation yesterday. I had counted some pins wrong. :(

I also have to rip out the shiny cabling that I put in place the other day and replace it with… whatever the new stuff is. I might also use random salvaged flat cable to save headaches, or just some de-jacketed CAT5. I’m not sure about this yet.