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Step 2Gather Tools and Parts
The tools required here are only the most basic of soldering tools.
- Soldering iron
- Solder
- Multimeter or Continuity tester
Other items can certainly help with soldering, but are almost never required for building a cable such as this:
- Flux
- Desolder pump or copper braid
- 'Helping Hands'
The parts we need are extremely simple
- Sacrificial USB cable. It doesn't matter what it was in another life, only that it has a flat 'A' end. This can easily be scavenged from old USB peripherals such as mice and keyboards. If you manage to find a long USB 'A' to 'A' cable, you can cut it in have and use them to create two UPCB cables. Otherwise, cut the cable as far from the 'A' end as you can to give us the most amount of cable to work with.
- DB-15 male plug with solder cup connectors. Digikey Part No. 215ME-ND , or available at any good electronics store. The chance of it being a good electronics store is directly, inversely, proportional to the number of HDTV's they sell. This is one of the few electronics parts that you can still find at some Radio Shacks.
- DB-15 Hood. The one used in the pictures here is Digikey Part No. 972-15SY-ND , but there are tons of D-Sub hoods made. You can also find these for cheap in most good electronics stores. I highly recommend that whatever hood you get, make sure to get thumbscrews to go with.
- Wire. The wire used here is 30 AWG Kynar wire, available from Fry's. Just about any kind of wire can be used, but using a very small guage will make things much easier.
Components other than these are needed for some consoles, however they are the exception, not the rule. As of this writing, the only systems that require anything more than wire are the FM-Towns system (detailed in neogeo.h) and the 3DO system (detailed in 3do.h)
- Soldering iron
- Solder
- Multimeter or Continuity tester
Other items can certainly help with soldering, but are almost never required for building a cable such as this:
- Flux
- Desolder pump or copper braid
- 'Helping Hands'
The parts we need are extremely simple
- Sacrificial USB cable. It doesn't matter what it was in another life, only that it has a flat 'A' end. This can easily be scavenged from old USB peripherals such as mice and keyboards. If you manage to find a long USB 'A' to 'A' cable, you can cut it in have and use them to create two UPCB cables. Otherwise, cut the cable as far from the 'A' end as you can to give us the most amount of cable to work with.
- DB-15 male plug with solder cup connectors. Digikey Part No. 215ME-ND , or available at any good electronics store. The chance of it being a good electronics store is directly, inversely, proportional to the number of HDTV's they sell. This is one of the few electronics parts that you can still find at some Radio Shacks.
- DB-15 Hood. The one used in the pictures here is Digikey Part No. 972-15SY-ND , but there are tons of D-Sub hoods made. You can also find these for cheap in most good electronics stores. I highly recommend that whatever hood you get, make sure to get thumbscrews to go with.
- Wire. The wire used here is 30 AWG Kynar wire, available from Fry's. Just about any kind of wire can be used, but using a very small guage will make things much easier.
Components other than these are needed for some consoles, however they are the exception, not the rule. As of this writing, the only systems that require anything more than wire are the FM-Towns system (detailed in neogeo.h) and the 3DO system (detailed in 3do.h)
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