Controler stupidity

Droke · Post by **Droke** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:58 pm

My friend has a genesis he bought at a yard sale for $3, one problem it has is that the control wires were crushed. Well, I was fixing them for him and unsoldered the wires going into the ciruit board... ...but forgot to mark which went where...

I need help finding what goes where again, I'ver traced all but 4 wires useing his second controler of a differnt internal wireing. The four go directly into the IC so I cant tell which goes where.

Here is a *blurry* pic of what I have, if anyone else has the same model could you tell me which goes where? (More then anything else the pic is to allow you to see if your model is the same)

jedi knight · Post by **jedi knight** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:21 pm

I am pretty sure I have that model. Let me go check...
edit: No dice. Sorry.

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:46 pm

You need http://pinouts.ru/Game/genesiscontroller_pinout.shtml
and the pinouts of the ic. I haven't got a link up but someone should.

Post by **Skyone** » Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:39 pm

See how the pins are numbered? It looks like you've figured that Pin 1 is red, right?

From the sticky:

Skyone wrote:Controller Data (3 Button Controller)

Pin 1 = Brown = Up
Pin 2 = Red = Down
Pin 3 = Orange = Ground/Left
Pin 4 = Yellow = Ground/Right
Pin 5 = Green = 5v
Pin 6 = Blue = Button A/Button B
Pin 7 = Gray = Select
Pin 8 = Black = Ground
Pin 9 = White = Start/Button C

9 pin D-SUB female connector at the controller

9 pin D-SUB male connector at the Genesis

Research by Skyone

Luckily, Sega made it easy on us because they made the pin numbers of the colored wires the same pins of the connector. As you can see, on the PCB where the colored wires go in, the numbering goes:

1, 2, 5, 7, 3, 4, 8, 9, 6

Refer to the above pin -> color diagram above.

1. Brown
2. Red
5. Green
7. Gray
3. Orange
4. Yellow
8. Black
9. White
6. Blue

Tell me if you do not understand.

-Skyler

Droke · Post by **Droke** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:43 am

I think I do, I'll look further when I can actualy do something.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:06 am

And if that stuff still doesn't do the job, here's a nice compilation on the controller pinouts, color coded, and including the controller IC itself. Gamesx is a cool site as it is, I'd bookmark it. A/V and controller pinouts for almost every system imaginable, plus a ton of mods on how to get different video signals out of each console. Good luck!

CTFan