So I added a new port on the Turbo Express

[420GOAT]

now just get a cd to connect so only my express can do it all.

[turbokon]

exactly, waiting for my new panel mount connector to arrive, but when it is setup when you plug in a controller, it will ground the select line when the controller port is plugged in and prevent the screen from timing out. I already confirmed this will work unless we get another method.

when controller is unplugged the system will work like normal, select won't be grounded, power save mode will kick in

Where would tap onto the select line?? IC800 on the TE controller pcb?

[Duo_R]

No nearby one of the lines on the PCB before it hits the chip

Check out the new controller port:

[thesteve]

jump cc505 to 5V instead

[turbokon]

jump cc505 to 5V instead

Cool, will give this a try.

[turbokon]

I can confirm that works. Played r-type for over 10mins using a duo pad on a big screen tv.  Thanks guys. Time for me to finalize every thing and close this baby up:)

[turbokon]

Got everything close up and working. Tried to force the mini d in the socket with a plier that's why it doesn't look to clean. It went in easy after drilling the hole a little bigger.

[esteban]

Awesome.

[turbokon]

Thanks, it've have not been possible without people like thesteve, duo_r and others here.

Wonder if the switchless region mod still work with this since it require you to hold select on the turbo express controller. Sold my region modded TE recently. Will modify this TE for switchless region modded this weekend.

[Drakon]

I wish I could do casework that cleanly, my work is always ugly which is why I usually try to hide it all under the hood.

[Frank_fjs]

Very clean job there. Console modding really requires 2 separate skills, the electrical side of things and then the case work, which a lot of people seem to have trouble with.

[Drakon]

Oh yeah I suck at case stuff and don't hide it.  The internal stuff I can do.  I just don't have the patience to make stuff look pretty, life's too short to make things look pretty!

[thesteve]

with the cap jumped select is not held

[turbokon]

steve, I was talking about the switchless region mod.  Would it still work holding down the select button on the external controller?

[turbokon]

Oh yeah I suck at case stuff and don't hide it.  The internal stuff I can do.  I just don't have the patience to make stuff look pretty, life's too short to make things look pretty!

For me it has to be practical, functional and cosmetically appearling before I attempt something.