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Yea people get them while you still can. I'm sure the batch won't last long. @undamned is a pretty busy dude, so I'm glad I didn't have to contact him directly to see if he had any spares laying around. Since of course he is local to me lol.
 
So at our local meet today for the first time since forever, I had a guy use a dual shock 4 on my setup and for some reason he was stuck in low crouch during a match of Marvel 2. But once he unplugged his ds4 from the usb extender and replugged it in again everything went back to normal.

Now in all the times I’ve used Undamned USB decoders I have never encountered this. And for the four hours of gaming between me and my buddies today there were no issues whatsoever on the same setup. So should I just chalk this up to that one guy’s DS4 being weird?
 
lupinko said:
So at our local meet today for the first time since forever, I had a guy use a dual shock 4 on my setup and for some reason he was stuck in low crouch during a match of Marvel 2. But once he unplugged his ds4 from the usb extender and replugged it in again everything went back to normal.

Now in all the times I’ve used Undamned USB decoders I have never encountered this. And for the four hours of gaming between me and my buddies today there were no issues whatsoever on the same setup. So should I just chalk this up to that one guy’s DS4 being weird?
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Could be if it was manufactured later it may have a different firmware? Is your UD-USB up to date?

If unplugging it and reinserting it worked though, more likely it’s just being weird
 
I think I have the most up to date firmware but I should check again. Though people with weird ass controllers was always a thing. lol
 
Anybody have a recommendation for a good extension cord for the DB15 decoder for use with a Neo Geo home system?
 
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Ajax said:
Anybody have a recommendation for a good extension cord for the DB15 decoder for use with a Neo Geo home system?
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I bought some standard extension from AliExpress and cut the shroud so it fit the adapter. Not pretty at all, but it works!

Paradise Arcade had a much nicer cable from @undamned at one point: https://paradisearcadeshop.com/products/undamned-neo-geo-adapter-for-db15-usb-decoder

You could probably snip the end off a generic extension and attach the right form of connector to make one yourself. But it’s a small effort.
 
I got my adapters from Undamned in July 2019 so I should have the most up to date drivers right? I can’t update them right now for the sake of it because I’m leaving my setup for a local tomorrow. Need to know if these can use a Victrix since we have a Marvel 2 exhibition with Justin Wong tomorrow.

Edit: He uses a Qanba Obsidian, crisis averted? lol
 
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Yeah I need to update the drivers today. Since i noticed that for one of them when playing CvS2 casuals with Justin Wong, he needed to change his Obsidian’s setting to PS3. I think I only updated one of them years ago but I’ll update both today.
 
Hi all! I've been having some decoder issues and would appreciate any suggestions 🙂

So I've been using UD-USB decoders for a while and they've worked great for me at home, but the past few weeks I've been taking a CPS-2 setup to locals and I've had two decoders 'die' on me (dead as in the status light is off and no inputs are registered). The first one I put down to a chance failure, but now a second one's gone I think something is up and I don't want to burn through any more adapters if I can help it.

Both times the issues started when sticks were being switched over. The USB connection would seem finicky - the LED would be off, but jiggling the USB plug and getting it at just the right angle would cause the light to come on. Later it'd seem completely dead. The first adapter briefly start functioning again after a couple of weeks, so it wasn't completely fried, but now it's unresponsive again.

First thing I want to check just to be sure: it *is* fine to hot swap sticks, right? I haven't seen any warnings not to (or maybe that's such an obviously bad thing to do that no one mentions it 😬)

If it's a physical issue with the USB port, is there anything I can do to get a tighter connection?

And generally, has anyone else had issues like this? Should I be suspicious of my setup? It's an HDMI modded CPS-2 with an IO board powered from a standard laptop power supply. If I plug the adapters into a minigun powered by a proper Mean Well arcade PSU then I see the same issues (but maybe the adapters got damaged by the first setup?)
 
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