So I'm super close to finishing off my blitz 99 setup. I got the monitor back up and working and I've gotten everything dialed in.
But my joysticks won't respond. Like at all.
All the buttons work fine, but the controllers don't do anything when I move them.
I know it's not the i40 board. I swapped boards to my blitz 2000 machine and it fired up and played all four players fine. All the joysticks have also been tested on my blitz 2000 machine and worked fine over there too. So it's not the joys themselves.
When I get to the test menu the cursor just scrolls down constantly. I can manipulate it by unplugging the input or output or power leads and just slightly plugging them back in until it stops on the option I want.
When I enter the switch test menu player 4 is offset to position 42 (down and left are highlighted as if the joystick is pressed on that direction.) As per the photo.
When I unplug the player 4 joystick - no change
When I unplug the player 4 harness from the i40 - no change
When I play with any other the other players, 1 - 3 the player 4 position flutters rapidly.
If I remove any other cables input, output or power, the position lights go off and player 4 returns to center (24)
Funny thing is, when in the test menu and the cursor was scrolling, if I unplug player 4 from the i40, the cursor keeps scrolling.... If I unplug any two of the players though, the scrolling stops....
This seems like it's a stupid thing I'm overlooking but I'm frazzled here trying to figure this out! Please help!
But my joysticks won't respond. Like at all.
All the buttons work fine, but the controllers don't do anything when I move them.
I know it's not the i40 board. I swapped boards to my blitz 2000 machine and it fired up and played all four players fine. All the joysticks have also been tested on my blitz 2000 machine and worked fine over there too. So it's not the joys themselves.
When I get to the test menu the cursor just scrolls down constantly. I can manipulate it by unplugging the input or output or power leads and just slightly plugging them back in until it stops on the option I want.
When I enter the switch test menu player 4 is offset to position 42 (down and left are highlighted as if the joystick is pressed on that direction.) As per the photo.
When I unplug the player 4 joystick - no change
When I unplug the player 4 harness from the i40 - no change
When I play with any other the other players, 1 - 3 the player 4 position flutters rapidly.
If I remove any other cables input, output or power, the position lights go off and player 4 returns to center (24)
Funny thing is, when in the test menu and the cursor was scrolling, if I unplug player 4 from the i40, the cursor keeps scrolling.... If I unplug any two of the players though, the scrolling stops....
This seems like it's a stupid thing I'm overlooking but I'm frazzled here trying to figure this out! Please help!

