So to be clear, at the moment without modification you aren't going to be able to use any of the controls with whatever device you are attaching to your screen. Seems we need whatever magic to enable OTG mode that the ALU box does. Perhaps some of you who have modified the controllers a bit will know how to use it, but when I connect the controller to use as USB the device doesn't recognize it (even when I have power to it and its turned on). Replace the guts in the controller with my arcade stick ones + USB encoders. Wire up a 3.5mm to bare wire connector (that doesn't arrive here until Friday) to the speakers to enable audio Take a look and let me know if you have any questions. See datagruntled's post below.Įdit2: Okay, I put together an Imgur for all of this. Edit: Turns out that I made a major error here, and once I properly connected things the controller works beautifully as a USB controller for the MiSTer, and very likely would work great with a Pi as well. I'll include that in the writeup on this I'm going to do. Not sure if it will work properly as a usb controller or keyboard once I power it in addition to the usb, but I'm hopeful.

I guess this should be expected, but it's a bit of a bummer. connecting just the usb on the controls to a Mister (or pi) doesn't work, at least not without providing 5v power to the control deck as well. you do need to use the inverter the kit comes with but there's an easy way to connect the power output to it to the screen using the existing line. Unfortunately the wifi on my ALU doesn't work properly at all (sees a zillion networks, connects successfully to my wifi but will never log in to arcadenet to reset the coinopsx counter) and I'm not running an ethernet cord across my room when I have fantastic wifi coverage. My goal is to make mine a permanent Mister FPGA arcade cabinet, but this will also be great for Raspberry Pi folks as well.Įdit: I should also say I'm not thrilled about having to do this, as I liked the arcade as is once I added coinopsx to it.

It's sold for a very very similar model number to the screen in the ALU 1.1 (it's for an MV238FHM-N10 and the screen in the ALU is an MV238FHB-N20).Īrrived today and, it works! Finally we can use the screen without HDMI cables hanging off the front. After a lot of sleuthing and searching on ebay I took a chance on an lcd driver board. Hey folks, just wanted to share some good news.

Ugreen hdmi switch button