Brook Universal Fighting Board Thread

[Brook_Engineer]

You can use a SPDT or SP3T switch. To use an SPDT switch, ground one side and hook the other pin to LS, then you can use LS or DP (default).
If you want RS, you need an SP3T switch. I don’t know why RS would ever be needed though.

My Qanba Q4raf already had an SPDT switch hooked up to ground on the front panel (Thanks, @Vicko !), so that just required a wire going to LS. You can try to find one for a new cabinet here: http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/switches/selector-switches/1114766

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[Solodus]

Thanks Falkentyne for your help! I’m gonna order one today

[kardus]

What’s the minimum amount of option buttons required to get “full functionality” out of the UFB?

According to Brook there 7 (including turbo) possible buttons + switch with unique functionality: http://www.brookaccessory.com/Archive/_eng/upload/Universal_1%20en.jpg

Did any recent firmware updates allow for any key combos to replace any specific buttons and the switch? I think I remember seeing this somewhere but couldn’t find anything after skimming the thread.

[Falkentyne]

What’s the minimum amount of option buttons required to get “full functionality” out of the UFB?

According to Brook there 7 (including turbo) possible buttons + switch with unique functionality: http://www.brookaccessory.com/Archive/_eng/upload/Universal_1%20en.jpg

Did any recent firmware updates allow for any key combos to replace any specific buttons and the switch? I think I remember seeing this somewhere but couldn’t find anything after skimming the thread.

In ps3/xbox mode, TPkey is the select button, so you can wire up Tpkey instead of select. So wiring select is the same key. In ps4 mode, select is the share button.

[kardus]

What’s the minimum amount of option buttons required to get “full functionality” out of the UFB?

According to Brook there 7 (including turbo) possible buttons + switch with unique functionality: http://www.brookaccessory.com/Archive/_eng/upload/Universal_1%20en.jpg

Did any recent firmware updates allow for any key combos to replace any specific buttons and the switch? I think I remember seeing this somewhere but couldn’t find anything after skimming the thread.

In ps3/xbox mode, TPkey is the select button, so you can wire up Tpkey instead of select. So wiring select is the same key. In ps4 mode, select is the share button.

So it’s technically not possible to get full functionality over all console modes with only 6 additional buttons?

[Sleepinn]

Hello, I’m trying to hook up my 360 fightstick pro to the brook universal fighting board. Some questions to ask?

1. Would there be no need to hook up DP wire at all if you were trying to connect LS/RS from the LS/DP/RS switch ?

2. Where would I hook up the Kground wire on the CN2 connector or is there no need to hook up kground due hooking up ground?

3. Anyway to hook up the lockswitch button to the UFB or you can’t (I don’t need the lock switch but it would be good to know if you can hook it up or not)?

4. How would I be able to hook up the home button if the ground wire is in a different location from the start/select button or would you still be able to hook up the home button as long as there is a ground wire?

5. Would I be able to hook up the Turbo LEDs as player LEDs in the fighting board (what would the VCC be use for)?

[Jasen_Hicks]

Just finished testing the pre-production run of the TE2 EZ MOD that allows installation of the UFB into these sticks with ease. I think install took about 10 minutes. I’ll be posting part 2 of the install video this evening. Until then, here’s a nice picture:

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13325664_2028386717387340_6833182584635764870_n.jpg?oh=96f9106a3a9f0061a7b2577942c26475&oe=57E763A0

[Falkentyne]

What’s the minimum amount of option buttons required to get “full functionality” out of the UFB?

According to Brook there 7 (including turbo) possible buttons + switch with unique functionality: http://www.brookaccessory.com/Archive/_eng/upload/Universal_1%20en.jpg

Did any recent firmware updates allow for any key combos to replace any specific buttons and the switch? I think I remember seeing this somewhere but couldn’t find anything after skimming the thread.

In ps3/xbox mode, TPkey is the select button, so you can wire up Tpkey instead of select. So wiring select is the same key. In ps4 mode, select is the share button.

So it’s technically not possible to get full functionality over all console modes with only 6 additional buttons?

You need at least 13 buttons.
4P
4K
Start
Select (or TPkey; binding TPkey instead of select will omit the Share button in PS4)
Home
L3
R3

Note that L3 and R3 on xbox 360 are the buttons from pressing the analog sticks down. I have no idea what they are on the Dual shock 4 or DS3.

[Falkentyne]

Hello, I’m trying to hook up my 360 fightstick pro to the brook universal fighting board. Some questions to ask?

1. Would there be no need to hook up DP wire at all if you were trying to connect LS/RS from the LS/DP/RS switch ?

2. Where would I hook up the Kground wire on the CN2 connector or is there no need to hook up kground due hooking up ground?

3. Anyway to hook up the lockswitch button to the UFB or you can’t (I don’t need the lock switch but it would be good to know if you can hook it up or not)?

4. How would I be able to hook up the home button if the ground wire is in a different location from the start/select button or would you still be able to hook up the home button as long as there is a ground wire?

5. Would I be able to hook up the Turbo LEDs as player LEDs in the fighting board (what would the VCC be use for)?

If you only want Analog left stick, wire “Lstick” on the turbo PCB (I think this is on bank CM5) to LS on Brook UFB. The panel is common ground so you only need one ground.

KGND locks the turbo panel. if it’s unlocked, it links to GND. if it’s locked, it links to nothing. If it’s left unconnected, I believe the switch does nothing. Someone correct me on that if I’m wrong. Someone mentioned how to hook it up, but I believe you hook it up to GND only.

Remember the 360 PCB is common ground. Just for reference, I hooked up my Qanba Q4raf PCB to the Fightstick Pro 360 Turbo panel and made “Home/Guide” work just by hooking up GND on the Qanba PCB to GND on the LED panel (above D1-D4, under VCC), and hooking up the XGUILD pin to Xbox/PS3 on the Qanba PCB. I even made the Select button work, which is supposed to work from the Qanba q4raf’s own turbo panel instead of a Quick Disconnect button such as its start button, by hooking up a ghetto jury rigged QD connect to the madcatz select button, hooking the select wire to the select pin on the Q4raf, and the second QD on the select button (since the sanwa buttons require a ground) to the GND pin on the Q4’s microphone jumper block! So yes, all you need is GND from the LED bank.

Cant help with the LED’s. My UFB is in my Qanba stick. I was just testing the Qanba PCB to see if it would work in the madcatz board and sure enough it works as it’s common ground.

You can ask @Vicko or @“Jasen Hicks” , but I think the PS3 version requires more work while the Xbox 360 version is child’s play (all you need are the right connections; hell you can even rip the wires out of the JST connector on the back 360 PCB, strip them and put them directly into the UFB!

[Sleepinn]

If you only want Analog left stick, wire “Lstick” on the turbo PCB (I think this is on bank CM5) to LS on Brook UFB. The panel is common ground so you only need one ground.

KGND locks the turbo panel. if it’s unlocked, it links to GND. if it’s locked, it links to nothing. If it’s left unconnected, I believe the switch does nothing. Someone correct me on that if I’m wrong. Someone mentioned how to hook it up, but I believe you hook it up to GND only.

Remember the 360 PCB is common ground. Just for reference, I hooked up my Qanba Q4raf PCB to the Fightstick Pro 360 Turbo panel and made “Home/Guide” work just by hooking up GND on the Qanba PCB to GND on the LED panel (above D1-D4, under VCC), and hooking up the XGUILD pin to Xbox/PS3 on the Qanba PCB. I even made the Select button work, which is supposed to work from the Qanba q4raf’s own turbo panel instead of a Quick Disconnect button such as its start button, by hooking up a ghetto jury rigged QD connect to the madcatz select button, hooking the select wire to the select pin on the Q4raf, and the second QD on the select button (since the sanwa buttons require a ground) to the GND pin on the Q4’s microphone jumper block! So yes, all you need is GND from the LED bank.

Cant help with the LED’s. My UFB is in my Qanba stick. I was just testing the Qanba PCB to see if it would work in the madcatz board and sure enough it works as it’s common ground.

You can ask @Vicko or @“Jasen Hicks” , but I think the PS3 version requires more work while the Xbox 360 version is child’s play (all you need are the right connections; hell you can even rip the wires out of the JST connector on the back 360 PCB, strip them and put them directly into the UFB!

I would also want to hook up the RS but to a button like L3 if that is possible

Due to the 360 PCB being common ground, would it be possible to hook up 2 KGN wires (one from CN4 via Turbo Panel and CN2 via the button panel) from the FS Pro into a GND slot in the UFB?

Looks like it can be possible power up the LEDs by soldering USB VCC from the FS Pro via CN6 connector to the UFB VCC and hook the Turbo LEDs to the Player indicators in the UFB

[Darksakul]

I would also want to hook up the RS but to a button like L3 if that is possible

What for?

Due to the 360 PCB being common ground, would it be possible to hook up 2 KGN wires (one from CN4 via Turbo Panel and CN2 via the button panel) from the FS Pro into a GND slot in the UFB?

Yes

Looks like it can be possible power up the LEDs by soldering USB VCC from the FS Pro via CN6 connector to the UFB VCC and hook the Turbo LEDs to the Player indicators in the UFB

What are you trying to accomplish?

[Sleepinn]

What for?

So I can use the Reset shortcut in SFV via training mode on PC (Requires the L3 button if you do turn on button hotkeys)

Yes

Sweet than. Thank you on that

What are you trying to accomplish?

Nothing major really. Just to see if the stick is on and what mode/player it is hooked up to

[Jasen_Hicks]

As promised. The Brook UFB installation Video (Part 2) with the Madcatz TE2 EZ MOD Kit.

https://youtu.be/SaA42OmrWNg

[Falkentyne]

What for?

So I can use the Reset shortcut in SFV via training mode on PC (Requires the L3 button if you do turn on button hotkeys)

Yes

Sweet than. Thank you on that

What are you trying to accomplish?

Nothing major really. Just to see if the stick is on and what mode/player it is hooked up to

I haven’t tested the LS/DP/RS binding on the madcatz sp3t switch, but assuming that if one position is bound to ground, it should work fine. On the Qanba Q4raf front panel for example on the PS3/PC-Xbox SPDT two-way switch, Xbox is bound to nothing (Default) while PS3/PC is bound to ground, so I hooked up the panel switch (labeled “switch”) to LS on the Brook UFB and it uses analog LS when set to the right (PS3).

Since there are two pins, Lstick and Rstick on the madcatz 360 turbo panel, why not just bind L3 to Lstick and R3 to right stick and see if that works? Do you really need analog functionality anyway?

The only reason I bound LS on mine is because I play Street fighter Hyper fighting on Callus, and Callus is the only emulator that is arcade perfect, and it was made back in the windows 95 days when joysticks were assumed to be analog (it won’t accept the hat switch (dpad).

[Sleepinn]

I haven’t tested the LS/DP/RS binding on the madcatz sp3t switch, but assuming that if one position is bound to ground, it should work fine. On the Qanba Q4raf front panel for example on the PS3/PC-Xbox SPDT two-way switch, Xbox is bound to nothing (Default) while PS3/PC is bound to ground, so I hooked up the panel switch (labeled “switch”) to LS on the Brook UFB and it uses analog LS when set to the right (PS3).

Since there are two pins, Lstick and Rstick on the madcatz 360 turbo panel, why not just bind L3 to Lstick and R3 to right stick and see if that works? Do you really need analog functionality anyway?

The only reason I bound LS on mine is because I play Street fighter Hyper fighting on Callus, and Callus is the only emulator that is arcade perfect, and it was made back in the windows 95 days when joysticks were assumed to be analog (it won’t accept the hat switch (dpad).

Considering most/any modern fighting games will not be using the LS or RS primarily for movement, I may consider wiring LS/RS to L3/R3.

In the topic of emulators, MAME and Fightcade would be the only emulators I would be running. So LS would have not much uses I guess.

[Darksakul]

I haven’t tested the LS/DP/RS binding on the madcatz sp3t switch, but assuming that if one position is bound to ground, it should work fine. On the Qanba Q4raf front panel for example on the PS3/PC-Xbox SPDT two-way switch, Xbox is bound to nothing (Default) while PS3/PC is bound to ground, so I hooked up the panel switch (labeled “switch”) to LS on the Brook UFB and it uses analog LS when set to the right (PS3).

Since there are two pins, Lstick and Rstick on the madcatz 360 turbo panel, why not just bind L3 to Lstick and R3 to right stick and see if that works? Do you really need analog functionality anyway?

The only reason I bound LS on mine is because I play Street fighter Hyper fighting on Callus, and Callus is the only emulator that is arcade perfect, and it was made back in the windows 95 days when joysticks were assumed to be analog (it won’t accept the hat switch (dpad).

Considering most/any modern fighting games will not be using the LS or RS primarily for movement, I may consider wiring LS/RS to L3/R3.

In the topic of emulators, MAME and Fightcade would be the only emulators I would be running. So LS would have not much uses I guess.

You mean use LS or DP, no one uses RS for fighters.
On many older Emulators and PC games the program does not like using DP.

[Sleepinn]

You mean use LS or DP, no one uses RS for fighters.
On many older Emulators and PC games the program does not like using DP.

Whoops my bad on that.

On the other hand, finally hooked up the UFB to the FS Pro. Results were a success. Tested out the UFB stick on PC, 360, and Xbox 1 (will test out on my PS3 later) and they all functioned correctly. Also, wired the LS/RS to L3 and R3 respectively and they both worked.

[Falkentyne]

It was quite nice and easy to do, wasn’t it?
Common ground is best ground.

[Jasen_Hicks]

I have 7 early adopter TE2 EZ MODS for the Brook UFB ready to ship. PM me if you want to make install into your TE2 a piece of cake

[Feargus001100]

I have 7 early adopter TE2 EZ MODS for the Brook UFB ready to ship. PM me if you want to make install into your TE2 a piece of cake

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