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Please forgive my rambling. I'm confused, I'm tired, and I'm honestly kinda freaking out a little
This PCB man, I swear to God. Ok so, I spent all of today at work assembling the G-Boy kit up to the end of step 15, wiring up VGA. The problem I'm running into is the main controller PCB. Put simply, it was inconsistent at the best of times, and just doesn't work most of the time. I've checked continuity between the control board, the Wii, and the PMS and everything registers as connected. At one point early on, when I was trying to get it to work, I connected both 3.3v and GND pads to their respective points on the PMS but soon disconnected the second set of pads shortly after when I was told those were for the audio board. That didn't seem to cause any damage, as the board worked the same before and after that event. I've also checked for shorts around the shoulder buttons and found nothing. Sometimes the board would work, and sometimes it would just quit, though redoing the 3.3v and GND solder points would seem to fix it. Then shortly after I upgraded from portablizeMii to BBloader, the controls stopped working altogether. Now admittedly, I did screw up. After the controls stopped working I spent nearly 2 and a half hours trying to get them to work again. In that time I accidentally put one of the batteries in backward, but immediately pulled it out, I'm talking like 2.5 seconds later. I thought that may have damaged something, but everything seemed to work fine after that. In any case, at about 8:46 pm I decide to go home, but not before filming a video recapping my progress to send to a buddy of mine. While Filming this video, the controls actually start working (). So I stop recording and test further, and all of the buttons and sticks work. I decide to see if they work after rebooting the system, so I reboot the G-Boy and now they don't work again. What the Hell is going on? the only thing I can think of that was different between when they worked in the video and when they didn't work after the video was that I didn't touch the controls for about 30 seconds. I don't know anymore. I'm confused, I'm tired, and I don't know what's going on anymore. I think my board may be defective. I'd be willing to buy a new controller PCB if that was the case, but the one used in the G-Boy kit isn't for sale on the BitBuilt Store. If anyone knows what the hell is going on, or if you have any ideas on how to get it working, please let me know. I'll be going back to the shop to continue working on this kit tomorrow, until then, I'm going to bed. Goodnight.
This PCB man, I swear to God. Ok so, I spent all of today at work assembling the G-Boy kit up to the end of step 15, wiring up VGA. The problem I'm running into is the main controller PCB. Put simply, it was inconsistent at the best of times, and just doesn't work most of the time. I've checked continuity between the control board, the Wii, and the PMS and everything registers as connected. At one point early on, when I was trying to get it to work, I connected both 3.3v and GND pads to their respective points on the PMS but soon disconnected the second set of pads shortly after when I was told those were for the audio board. That didn't seem to cause any damage, as the board worked the same before and after that event. I've also checked for shorts around the shoulder buttons and found nothing. Sometimes the board would work, and sometimes it would just quit, though redoing the 3.3v and GND solder points would seem to fix it. Then shortly after I upgraded from portablizeMii to BBloader, the controls stopped working altogether. Now admittedly, I did screw up. After the controls stopped working I spent nearly 2 and a half hours trying to get them to work again. In that time I accidentally put one of the batteries in backward, but immediately pulled it out, I'm talking like 2.5 seconds later. I thought that may have damaged something, but everything seemed to work fine after that. In any case, at about 8:46 pm I decide to go home, but not before filming a video recapping my progress to send to a buddy of mine. While Filming this video, the controls actually start working (). So I stop recording and test further, and all of the buttons and sticks work. I decide to see if they work after rebooting the system, so I reboot the G-Boy and now they don't work again. What the Hell is going on? the only thing I can think of that was different between when they worked in the video and when they didn't work after the video was that I didn't touch the controls for about 30 seconds. I don't know anymore. I'm confused, I'm tired, and I don't know what's going on anymore. I think my board may be defective. I'd be willing to buy a new controller PCB if that was the case, but the one used in the G-Boy kit isn't for sale on the BitBuilt Store. If anyone knows what the hell is going on, or if you have any ideas on how to get it working, please let me know. I'll be going back to the shop to continue working on this kit tomorrow, until then, I'm going to bed. Goodnight.
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