IIRC this item was brought up a while back in ebay items thread or similar. The seller is unloading a few loose now, no longer in his "yaroze" "bundles", so I figured I'd grab one a week or two back on the basis that it could be anything from an empty box to some preposterous peripheral adapter as the seller claimed. Inspection seems to reveal that this is a simple button matrix to playstation controller interface. The manufacturer is listed as "CCC/Infoteam International Services LTD" which leads to: Infoteam International Services Ltd. provides repair services for Sony PlayStation game consoles. Apparently Infoteam seems to specialize in all series playstation product repair and refurbishing. It is presumable that this box was connected to a pc or specialized test system to test button presses or the like (althouhg i'm unsure why this would ever need to be tested as all psx devices communicate over serial, validating proper serial operation through all of the ports should suffice. Anyway, I have not tested the device to see what buttons correspond to what pairs (or even if they do, considering there's provision for 20 buttons here), but at the worst case, even though it's not a useful development item, it might be a decent interface for connecting custom controllers, home arcade, and the like.
Connected it to a PSX->USB adapter and it does appear that at least 7 buttons are mapped properly, still trying to determine the rest, it'll probably be easier to poll the controller remotely using a real psx since all these usb adapters cheat anyway...
The price he was asking was too high. Also it's not yaroze stuff so I asked him to prove it and he couldn't. Nice to find out what it is, but too bad you paid all that money for something that's not a dev item
I did get my best offer accepted, so it wasn't horrible, but more than i'd pay for the same item again... if i can get this to do what i want it to, i may buy a few more for a project, but only at a bit more reduced price.
Yeah saw those nearly £60UKP? That MCU looks like a PIC, you never know they might not have blown the fuses and it could be dumped?
heh.. i'm without a pic programmer or i'd definitely try... I need to get one anyway for an oddly, related, but far more annoying, project -Any suggestions on a programmer?
Ive got a PicKit2, from microchip which works quite well, but thats only any good for the Flash based devices. Depending on the device you want to program you could build a simple on yourself with a handful of parts to hook up to a serial port. dan
I've got an Elvis multiprogrammer 3.5, which is awesome, an el-cheapo thing off ebay (was £5 or so) and a mbhp_burner v2 which I assembled, all are good.
