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I am glad that you were able to solve your problem of not being able to program the Basic Atom Pro. As for the PS2 receiver, would need more information to be able to help. Things like how is it wired (picture help here).
Which PS2 receiver? What are the power jumper shunts set to for the IO pins? Should be for +5v for the IO pins 12-15. What power are you giving the board...

Kurt

Here is the picture and I don't know what I need to do to power the bot board, I'm sure I am missing something but I don't want to mess anything up to the point of no repair.

if I run a wire, with the jumpers connecting vs1 and vs2, from vs2 ont the ssc to vl on the bot board with one 9v battery , will that be enough power to power both or is there something I shouldn't do with that?

Not exactly the recommended approach since you lose all benefits of using the 9v battery in the first place. Just take those same wires and connect them from the SSC-32's VL to the Bot Board II's VL. It's ok to have two wires connected.

Here is the wiring diagram from the tutorial you are using... What's the problem?

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Note: as for the PS2, I can not see the connections in your picture, to see which color wire you have connected to which pin...

Kurt

ok ill send a picture of the wiring, the colors on the wires don't match up with that of the diagram. ill add a pic when i can

here is one picture

here is the other picture. let me know whats wrong, everything is connected but it wont move the arm and the controllers green light isn't coming on.

well the controller is talking to the board because I can press the start button and it will beep. The arm just won't move so I have a feeling it is something with the wiring somewhere, or possibly my ssc board needs to be programmed to something?

do I need RIOS software to complete this?

No you don't need rios. Table 5 illustrates pressing start is used to enable/disable the arm. Do the servos make any movement at all?

Does the green led on the SSC-32 ever blink?

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I can not tell from the pictures if the Black/yellow wire which I believe is going to the SSC-32 is it plugged in to P10 of BB2 and is that Red wire that is coming from the SSC-32, the one that is wrapped in green tape? If so I should be plugged in to P11, which is where the SSC-32 will get input from...

Kurt

looks to me like Yellow/Black on p11 and red left unplugged.
should be as kurt said.

Yellow/Black on p10 and red p11

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ok so i have the yellow and black in p10 and the red on p11. the controller is connected but the scc32 board doesn't flash or anything when I try to move the arm. which I assume is something with the connection between the boards