Hope everyone is good ! Anyways , I bought the UFB, installed it on a empty fightstick I had lying about. Connected everything , am currently using it on the PS3. I will randomly get an error message on the top right corner saying I’ve reached the maximum usb device and please remove them.
What gives ? As I’m only using the one usb cable from the board to the PS3. I’ve tried changing the cable with thee spare cables I have but the same error message persists.
Sometimes when I’m playing online , my character randomly does medium kick and medium punch, again I’ve checked the wiring and it seems fine.
Thanks for your reply. I’ve just tried a usb extension cable and the same message pops up. I’ll try and get a hold of a usb hub to see if this error message goes away.
I’ve also tried all the 4 usb ports on the PS3. But same thing happens, I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not, as soon as that message comes up. My character just does random inputs.
I didn’t know you were using an extender cable. And oh yes it really does matter.
Yes, too long and the USB cable gets too much interference and will not work.
On paper the USB 1.1 the maximum length is 9 feet 10 inches, for USB 2.0 the maximum length is 16 feet 5 inches.
That will length includes the cable inside and outside of your controller case as well as any extenders and what not.
I recommend not going any further than 15 feet because at 16 you will have issues, actually at 15 you will have issues and you should really limit your self to 10 feet or less.
USB cables aren’t in nice twisted pairs like Ethernet cable is and is susceptible to EM and RF interference as well as voltage drop.
You need to shorten down your cable if you want it to work.
Thanks for your advice , I have a lot of printer cables and I was going crazy in trying all of them. That’s when I thought about trying an extension cable there.
To see if it made any difference,
Indeed, excellent advice. This is similar to the issues were people were using non certified displayport cables longer than 3 meters and wondering why they kept losing signal or dropping to 60hz. The official limit for DP (DISPLAYPORT, not dragon punch!) is 3 meters (9 feet), and only Accel UltraAV cables are Vesa certified. Vesa owns displayport.org, by the way. That’s why cablematters’ cables are not vesa certified.
Sorry for getting off topic
But yeah, if you use proper length cables and still have issues, then you can start looking for problems with the PCB or wiring. Some people said you can find issues with grounding and voltage drops and solder joints easily with a multimeter, but I don’t own one and never used one before.
also the cable quality is going to be a factor, a good quality cable is gonna be much better no matter how short the cable is so I recommend you to get a good quality cable like a belkin gold series which are probably the best without going to the ridiculously expensive green, coffe, diamont, etc cables.
im going to have a look at the wiring on the UFB, because my cousin came over with his TE2+ Fightstick and used one of my USB extension cables (3m) and he didn’t get any error messages during 3 hours of solid gaming.
It could be that my printer cables are cheap cables. So that could be an issue ?! , also I’ve just used 2 of the ground terminal points for the setup. As I’ve daisy chained all the buttons to one ground point, and the other ground terminal point I used for the joystick wiring.
im only using the fightstick on the PS3 so Im going to try on the ps4 to see if the same error message persists.
Could be so many things , like faulty usb port , cable , cheap cables etc etc.
But thanks to all for the advice ! I will get to the bottom of this soon lol
You have to talk to Darksakul about that. I know absolutely nothing about soldering or wiring. my knowledge is screwing in a wire into a terminal or following instructions in a manual. I can assemble stuff just fine but as soon as it gets to a level where people have to actually know what they’re doing, well…let’s just say I just play video games.
I will say that some of you guys have some REALLY REALLY nice sticks, though. I guess it’s like mechanical keyboards…people really care about their hardware and put some good money into it…am I right?
I recommend Monoprice USB cables for the dollars to quality ratio
Cheap cables tend to skip on the shielding and the D- and D+ are supposed to be in a loose twisted pair, nothing like a good Cat 5 cable
It also factor how your USB cable is wired to your Brooks UFB, the shield, the wire braid that covers up everything should be tied with ground.
If you are using the on board USB jack, it isn’t a issue. Only if you soldered your USB cable to your PCB.
Also if you can post photos of your stick wiring we could spot something you miss.
I have both and trust me, for just a couple dollars more you are getting a much much better cable with Belkin Gold Series than Monoprice USB, tested with PS360+ and definitivelly the Belkin is by far a much better cable without going the expensive ones from AudioQuest.
I just received my Brook PCB and I have to say, amazing board, works out of the box as Xbox 1 on Windows 10 without any forced mode.
The only part that I didn’t like is that only J3 has Terminal Blocks, so I would like to add Terminal Blocks for sections J7, J5, J4 and J8 so which size or which ones do you recommend me to use?
I have a brook universal pcb, but I have a problem that 3K and 4K are registered as Z-buttons on the pc.
It’s fine when I force it to use as a ps4/ps3 controller but when it uses as a xbox 360/xbox one controller is returns to z-buttons.
Anyone els has this problem? I’m I missing a firmware? I’ve updated to the latest.
So uh a few days ago my universal pcb was working perfectly. Now it’s won’t work with pc/X one/360/PS3/4. Updated the firmware again and it’s not getting recognized by any of my systems or the computer. Anyone have an idea why it might be doing this? I cant force modes on it for whatever reason either
