I am looking to build a custom stick. It will be my first ever stick, not to mention the first time building one. I have a few questions regarding building them, if somebody could help me out it would be appreciated, thanks.
How do you wire up the buttons from the old PS2 controller?
I heard about different style controllers, do I need a certain model PS2 controller in order to pull apart?
I have seen the dual connection sticks (like the Anniversary Street Fighter stick), how would I go about connecting both Xbox and PS2 to one stick? If the answer is to wire both an Xbox and PS2 into the buttons, how would I go about doing that and will I need to chop an Xbox controller up too? (The same question also applies about the Xbox controller [see #2])
Do I need to be able solder to or have access to a soldering iron? /edit: Will quick disconnects/crimping get rid of soldering?
I heard about ‘top-mounting’ the stick, does this mean I have to notch out a section or cut a depression in the top of the stick in order to mount it on top of my base?
Is there much of a difference on playstyle for a Hexagonal gate and a square gate? AKA should I get a hexagonal for Street Fighter EX3 or a square?
Should I put 6 or 8 buttons on? I notice most of the customs are 6, yet the stocks are 8, does it matter?
If any of you know of some guides where they walk through this or want to email me (hahano9@gmail.com) please do, any help is appreciated. I am yet to buy parts, though I have emailed Ponyboy about purchasing some Sanwa parts. If I get more questions, I’ll post them, thanks in advance.
firstly, i suggest that you dont use a ps2 controller, instead use a psone controller(the white ones with semi-circle connecter) as they are perfect for a first stick, and if u are uneasy aboiut soldering stay clear away from official ps2 pads, as they require quite precision soldering skills. there is also the solderless ps2 pads (‘A’ series i think…?)but ive head of some issues of lag with them, but i dont know for sure
crack open the controller and scrape off the black rubber contact on each button, solder each NO (normally open) wire to the point that isnt grounded (all the ground contacts link up to each other, u can see by following tha lines) and use a disconnect and connect to the microswitch. as for grounds, u can daisy chain the wires, that means u just twist 2 wires together and crimp em and have a chain and attach to each microswitch ground, and solder to a common ground in the controller pcb, or more easily, drill a tiny hole through the contacts and poke the wire through and solder. on more thing, after the wires are soldered (no matter which method u use) hot glue hem to the pcd to they dont get pulled off.
i got the drilling info from NiteWalker’s post in the pad hacking thread
on my stick, i hav each half of the connections grounded to one of the grounds in between the l/r buttons, also u can cut the ribbon calbe to the shoulder buttons and solder directly to thw points liek in the pic
no, just stick with a psone, or a generic cheap controller
microswitches usually have holes on the contact tabs, poke a wire throgh there and put a crimp over it so there are two wires, one for ps2, one for xbox for example
yes, LEARN TO SOLDER! disconnects half the needing for solering since to dont need to solder to buttons (also makes it easy for replacing buttons)
5.think so, never done anything like thatg, but hear it mentioned a couple of times
on square restrictor plates, the diagonals require a longer “throw” in other words, the distance needed to move the joystick up, down, left right are shorter that diagonals, octagon( i assume u meant these, as i dont think there are hexagon ones :S) plates have all directions the same throw, so circular movents are acheived easily, which is importants if u are playing fighters. i suggest octagon plates, there are also circular restrictor plates.
depends on u, on my stick i have 6, i was gonna have eight, but they would have been mapped to punch x3 and kick x3, but i made it to get an authentic arcade feel so i wouldnt get my ass kicked in arcades by randoms who want a challenge (lol) so its really up to u on that, u could always have 6 on top, and have one on each side, like pinball machines, and use ur pinky fingers to hit them.
also, u could have 7 buttons, like th hotrod stick, whick is good for SNK fighters, all u have to do is re-map the buttons in game to the bottom four buttons on the stick
Which will fail miserably. If you press something, it will likely act like all buttons are pressed at once because the other pcb isn’t powered. Both PCB’s need to be powered for that to work, preferably with something like a switch in place to avoid frying everything if someone tries to plug it into both systems at once.
Hahano, just figure out what you’d want and have a builder make it for you. If you just want one single stick, having a builder make it for you will get you a better stick than your first three tries building will make. Or get a HRAP2 and converters for whatever system you want to play on.
well, in that case, u could wire a switch like toodle said, or wire all the microswitches to a db-15 male, and then the pcb to seperate d-15 female connectors.
like:
psone pcb
up
down
left
right
ground (daisychaned))
square
7.triangle
8.R1
9.X
10.O
11.R2
12.L1 (if ur gonna have it)
13.L2(if ur gonna have it)
14.start
15.select
and then wire the arcade parts to the corrosponding pins, but they will be reversed
