Hi to all!, this is my first post in this forum, I have to say I found a lot of usefull information here so thanks in advance for all of you who support it !!
I recently built an Arduinoboy shield based in the "Shieldboy" from http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/6140/ shieldboy/ that was postet by another member of this comunity "m00dawg", thanks!!. I have to say the layout is very clear so I thought to build one myself at home with the tyoical technique of tonner transfer and etching with cluoride pherric or whatever it is in english
Im using:
- GBA
- Cable Link with 5 pins (missing line of the Voltage which I dont want to use anyway)
- Arduino MEGA 2560
- Arduino IDE 1.0
- Arduinoboy 1.2.3 + LSDJ and mGB (arduinoboy edition)
Apart from the backwards diode, which is documented the same in every other schematic around (the black part of the diode goes to the pin 2 of the 6N138), everything seems fine with the multimeter... the only thing I havent solder is the 5volts line... as Im using the first GBA model (the wide one) and uses 3V instead of 5V.
As shown in the image, I recycled a multilink interface that I had around to plug the GBA to the Arduinoboy using 1 game boy link cable.
http://s14.postimage.org/9as5ajhvl/PHOT INOBOY.jpg
The LEDS seem fine, all blinking, doing the fancy thingy at the begining. It blinks to MIDI clock and MIDI notes events in some modes... but there is no answer from the GBA, neither the mGB or LSDJ soft is responing... I also noticed that LSDJ wont send MIDI in Master MIDI mode...
Is there any difference betwen GBA link cables and DMG version?
Do somebody know if the Arduino MEga 2560 might have different pinout ?
Any help would be aprecciated to make this baby singing!!
All the best!
Julian
Last edited by juliflash (Jun 15, 2012 3:25 pm)