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WTB RJ45 Cables for PC Engine, SFC/SNES & GameCube

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These are a pain to make. If I ever buy a second fight stick and intend to do the RJ45 thing, I'm paying someone else to do it too!
 
I was going to get a crimper and make them, but I’m in the same boat as you paying a pro. Seems like a bunch of fussing around, plus I have had cables which have blown a capacitor on a Super Famicom.

Just checking one last time with the forum members before I buy some from a website. I’m sure there’ll be a demand in line with the Jammaizer! if anyone out there has the skillz, it may pay the billz.
 
djsheep said:
I was going to get a crimper and make them, but I’m in the same boat as you paying a pro. Seems like a bunch of fussing around, plus I have had cables which have blown a capacitor on a Super Famicom.
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I have a crimper, and I have made them... IMO its a problem of documentation.
The only info I could find at the time came from SRK and they simply showed the plug head with numbers on it.

I had to play this crazy cross-reference matching game to figure out what went where, and in every single case/console my first attempted didn't work (thankfully I didn't blow out anything tho).
Cut and re-crimp, over and over, shorting my cables and angering me a great deal.

After I was done I thought about creating my own images to help others.
I was just so pissed and trying to finish I didn't document while crimping, when the shit worked I wasn't about to mess with it again.

djsheep said:
Original Xbox was practically just a USB connector with a different plug.
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Has one extra wire inside the cable (normal USB is red/black/white/green, Xbox adds yellow which I believe is used for headsets only).
 
A lot of the diagrams for those RJ45 cables are on free image hosting sites and are going to disappear one day.
 
Jumpingmanjim said:
A lot of the diagrams for those RJ45 cables are on free image hosting sites and are going to disappear one day.
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If they look anything like the diagrams I had to go by... Good riddance to trash!
Do it right or don't f'n bother! *drops mic*
 
Jumpingmanjim said:
A lot of the diagrams for those RJ45 cables are on free image hosting sites and are going to disappear one day.
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that’s why print to pdf is a great feature that people need to take more advantage of.

I’ve got a library of tutorial PDFs from various sites and forum posts. I know that none of this information will last on servers/sites etc., and being able to save them off in a clean way is gold.


damn, I can’t understand how arcade shock is making any money off these cables. Whether they’re using extension cables and crimping the ends, or they are building them scratch with a bulk of console connectors, they’re profit margin is super slim.

I was charging $20 shipped in the USA, for most of the console cables I built and even then my profits weren’t great!
 
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