Joysticks in CD32

[skilgannon]

Hi Guille64, did you get your comp pro to work properly?

[rockape]

Hi

See http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/amiga/cd32/

Kind Regards, Michael

aka rockape

[save2600]

I can't solder myself.

You wouldn't want to!! Oh the pain... lol

Goofy humour aside - of course Murphy's Law would apply here. Instead of easily
removing CIA's or other chips, the problems you are experiencing are (of course)
built around surface mounted technology  :-(

[Guille64]

Well... I tried with the slide nutton to the left and... the menu worked ok (using 444 compilation and others) but some things work bad: when I select some games, they don't start, but if I turned off the CD32 and replace the competition pro with the original CD32 pad and select the same games... they work!!!!
That problem happens with almost all the games in the compilations.:confused:

Greetings.

[Guille64]

I have tried today again and discover that a 888 compilation didn't work with the CD32pad (and two days ago it worked!) and start 444 compilation just to see that the games didn't started with the competition pro yesterday, now work perfectly!!!???. I think that this may be because the compilations, but I am not sure.

Regards

[skilgannon]

Could be it is the compilations.  I have a few compilations and getting tehm to work consistantly is a bit hit and miss.  I have created many CD's from my TOSEC collection and they are all fine with the competition pro (as are my originals) so maybe you are right.

[amiga1260]

I use 888 and 444 compilations on my CD32 with CD32 Competition Pro with out problems.

A few years ago I had a problem with my red button of CD32 Competition Pro. The piece of rubber button wears out, it had be teared. So I replaced the rubber button.

Open the joypad and see if it has tears in the rubber button.

[ceaser]

i heard unplugging ps2 connectors (old keyboard & mouse) from PC's wrecks motherboards.  i don't use much common sense but yeah i'm not unplugging ANYTHING from ANYTHING amiga with it on.  actually pc's too now.  never was sure why the motherboard suddenly stopped working on the old old dell pc I have but yeah that's why.

my point is don't take chances with that crap.  it's not worth it.  i've unplugged plenty of stuff i'm not supposed to with computers on and had it not break the computer it's a 1 in 100 chance, but it'll happen to you eventually.  i heard even USB hard disk unplugging on PC without doing the safely remove hardware is like that too with data.  if you don't do it 1 out of 100 times it'll lose your USB drive data.  Oh and yeah with ps2 it's when it's already on and you plug it in i think, not when you take it out when it's on.  there's lots of weird rules that make no sense so you just have to turn stuff off.  Of course USB keyboards or anything w/out data IS hot swappable.(sorry for rant)

now i got my CD-ROM working with my surf squrrel and there's no buttons on my keyboard that work with Alfred Chicken I just burned :/

I'm going to start a thread for it i think.  says press blue for options and red to play but only button on my PAL layout keyboard here that does ANYTHING is left Alt makes it go blank and still hear the music

[kickstart]

By the way, in the case of one of the CD32s it was a dodgey PS/2-AT adapter in the AUX port I was using for an A2000 keyboard that caused the problem, so it's not just the joystick ports that can harm your Amigas.

I had an sx1 giving some problems closer... i discover it playing super stardust cd32 version using the sx1 rgb output for better picture quality, with sx1 connected extra buttons of the cd32 pad were ignored.

[ID4]

I had an sx1 giving some problems closer... i discover it playing super stardust cd32 version using the sx1 rgb output for better picture quality, with sx1 connected extra buttons of the cd32 pad were ignored.

I have the same problem when I plug the "Analogic's CD32 disk drive" (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/rear.jpg/) in my standard CD32

Any hints or solutions to this??