PART 3: BASIC WIRING.

Hmmmm...now we get down to it!

The 5200 controller wiring is complicated only if you try to take it all in at once, looking in an actual 5200 controller. In reality, the scheme is pretty basic: with the exception of the joystick controls, everything else is simply a matter of 2 different wires touching to achieve something. That's it.


So, without further ado...here it is!


VERTICAL= RED and BLACK (with potentiometer).
HORIZONTAL= BROWN and BLACK (with potentiometer).

UPPER FIRE BUTTON= GREEN/WHITE and ORANGE.
LOWER FIRE BUTTON= YELLOW and ORANGE.

START= RED/WHITE and ORANGE/WHITE.
PAUSE= PURPLE and ORANGE/WHITE.
RESET= BLUE and ORANGE/WHITE.


Keypad Buttons:

1= ORANGE
2= WHITE (1, 2, and 3 touch RED/WHITE)
3= GREY

4= ORANGE
5= WHITE (4, 5, and 6 touch PURPLE)
6= GREY

7= ORANGE
8= WHITE (7, 8, and 9 touch BLUE)
9= GREY

*= ORANGE
0= WHITE (*, 0, and # touch GREEN)
#= GREY


In other words, touch ORANGE and GREEN and you "press" *. Touch GREY and GREEN and you "press" #. Touch WHITE and PURPLE and you "press"...if you said 5, then you have it.


Now, these colors assume you are actually using the cable from a 5200 controller. What if you don't have such? No problem, because here's where those wires lead to in a 5200 cable:

The 5200 controller plug has 15 holes: there are 2 rows; 8 in the top row, and 7 in the bottom row.

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I will number them. This assumes you are looking at the holes in the plug, with the 8-hole row on top:

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08
09 10 11 12 13 14 15

01= GREEN
02= RED/WHITE
03= PURPLE
04= BLUE
05= ORANGE/WHITE
06= NOTHING
07= WHITE
08= GREY
09= ORANGE
10= GREEN/WHITE
11= YELLOW
12= NOTHING
13= RED
14= BROWN
15= BLACK

I also found a BLACK/WHITE wire, but it does not appear to do anything. It does not lead to any of the holes.

So- what if you have a 15-pin controller cable from something else? All you have to do is use a multi-tester to figure out which wire leads to which hole (if the multi-tester prong is too big to fit in the holes, just twist a bit of stiff wire to the prong).

If, for example, in your cable the GOLD wire leads to Hole 7, then treat it as the WHITE wire listed above. If the SILVER wire leads to Hole 12, then it is of no use; seal it off.