So I had my PCB, I had a cabinet, was it going to be as simple as just plugging it it? Well, yes and no. The general pinout for Galaxy Force is the same aside for the control inputs. Additionally the UK built G-Loc cabinets were mono, despite having a stereo amp, a stereo PCB, and two speakers. Yes, they really did cut corners bolting them together.<\/p>\n
For reference, here are the pinouts for G-Loc and Galaxy Force on the controls connector:<\/p>\n
G-Loc and Galaxy<\/span> Force<\/span> filter to PCB loom pinout.\r\n\r\nJST pin\u00a0 \u00a0 G-Loc AMP\u00a0 \u00a0 Galaxy<\/span> Force<\/span> AMP\r\n-------\u00a0 \u00a0 ----------\u00a0 \u00a0-----------------\r\n1\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 B1\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A7\r\n2\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 B2\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A8\r\n3\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 B5\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0B8\r\n4\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 B3\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A9\r\n5\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A1\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A4\r\n6\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A2\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A5\r\n7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A3\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A6\r\n8\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A8\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A2\r\n9\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 B8\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0B2\r\n10\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A9\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A3\r\n11\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0-\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -\r\n12\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0-\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -<\/pre>\nAdditonally, one of the pots in the Galaxy Force stick had lost a wire and shorted at some point, cooking the connector.\u00a0 Luckily Andy Welburn to the rescue, who still had an Afterburner loom I’d given him, and sent across the required connector.\u00a0 I took the opportunity to replace the pots with brand new ones from Giz10p, fixed the loom and adjusted the pinout.\u00a0 It was actually pretty promising straight off the bat..<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-t0q5UQOcj4<\/p>\n
Unfortunately there were two small problems.\u00a0 Firstly in G-Loc the throttle control rests at the bottom, it’s sprung one way.\u00a0 In Galaxy Force, the throttle rests in the middle.\u00a0 Not a huge issue, since most people play Galaxy Force with it rammed at max throttle all the way except for the tunnels, I simply decided that rest should be full power, and push forward to slow down.\u00a0 Worked perfectly as it happens, all good.\u00a0 The other problem though was the ship wouldn’t bank or climb\/dive steeply enough.\u00a0 The problem is, while both games use a 5v pot, G-Loc has a shorter throw stick and uses multiplied on the inputs – hence the different pinout.<\/p>\n
I was going to need a whole new stick to fit the cab, or some way of adapting the existing stick to suit it.<\/p>\n
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