I agree with Darksakul. Aside from the fact that all those guts might be a little cramped in a Tek-Case, for a little more, you may as well buy a PS360+. You’ll have more room in the Tek-Case, and your MLG stick will remain intact! 
Hi guys, since the site is down I can’t find the extra instructions for the madcatz Pro stick. Can anyone help here? Thanks!
just got mine in yesterday got it installed today 
Thank you guys for all your trials and tribulations and pics it made the advanced install go pretty well (even for a first time moder), and thanks to Phreak for and awesome little chip, cant even tell its in there. The hardest part for me was deciding the exact location of the chip, i would recommend double sided tape to the bottom of the original 360 pcb and run you wires as tight as possible to keep it extra secure. thanks again srk and phreak, cant wait to do another one
Hmm. I followed all of the instructions given by the video on focusattack, but my fightstick doesn’t seem to get any power when I plug it in. Sometimes the computer recognizes that there is a USB, it usually doesn’t.
What would you guys say is wrong? Ill post pics if needed.
Double check to make sure you do not have the white and green wires of the USB cord backwards.
They’re in the right spots. A friend actually soldered them directly to their connections and since then, I’ve had a much more consistent connection to the computer. The button check on the Game Controllers thing works but thats as far as it will go. The buttons do not work on the playstation or in game.
Pics please, also check your ribbon cables and make sure they are in the correct spots.
If you plug in with nothing held down does it come up as cerberus? How about if you plug in with 1P held down, 360 mode come up? How about with START held down, do the player LEDs cycle?
Also, in your PM you say they aren’t together fully.
Take them out of the stick and put them together to make it easy to see where it’s getting stuck., then once they are together pull them apart and assemble inside the stick.
By friend he means me.
I looked at the board and the issue I think is the Cerberus board not fitting flat onto the PCB of the 360. I did solder the wires correctly following what the board said (Black -> Green -> White -> Red)
I took a knife and cut away some of the white plastic but it didn’t solve much. I later looked at the 6 pinned black plugs on the Cerberus board and noticed one of the copper pins were bent so I attempted to align it properly, but no luck. Only when I jangle the wires it says Cerberus on the Game Controller, then says Madcatz Neo, then nothing and vice versa.
I’m thinking of either soldering the ribbon cables individually with wires or unless you can provide another Cerberus board : /
Here’s the soldering we did for the USB chord.
Ribbon cables
Ribbon cables for the buttons
This is where it gets stuck
You’re ribbon cables look ok, and the boards look completely together. The JLF pins wont’ go all the way in, they bottom out in the socket though.
You didn’t really answer my question:
If you plug in with nothing held down does it come up as cerberus (or hold 1K)? How about if you plug in with 1P held down, 360 mode come up? How about with START held down, do the player LEDs cycle?
I hope you aren’t plugging it in when the stick is face down like that.
We got it working! Some of the pins were bent and we bent them back a little bit. We re-soldered USB Chord again and it all started to work properly.
Thanks for the help phreak and thanks for creating something so easy to use.
Glad you got it up and running, I was hoping it was something as simple as a bent pin.
Have fun!
Yo! Got a FA customer who is saying that his board gets a “USB device Not Recognized” error. I had him recheck the USB cables, and they’re installed correctly. He’s tried pushing down harder on the board, securing it with zip ties, has redone the USB cables twice, and has tried plugging in the board with nothing but the original USB cable plugged in. Same problem. I’m going to see if he can get it into bootloader mode, but I’m not optimistic.
Any ideas? The stick is a 360 SFxT VS. Here is the picture he provided:
After many Cerberus full installs I decided to do a cut install. I think it turned out fairly clean for my first one. Next one should look better.
Everything looks to be in order, his ribbon cables are correct in orientation? Ribbons 4 and 5 in particular. It looks like they are labeled though.
First thing, have him remove the USB cable from the terminals on USB OUT and look very closely at it… does he see copper showing at all in the bite marks or not? If not, the IDC terminal just isn’t biting hard enough and he may have to just strip the end of it and give it a good twist, then put it back in with the one wire stripped. I’ve had this before where I’ve done it a few times to no avail, it’s frustrating, but sometimes the cable/IDC just don’t don’t want to play together.
- Check bootloader mode, because that indicates that the button ribbon cables are correct and that the headers are in the right spot. Check the LEDs cycling, do they cycle and do they cycle briskly clockwise?
- If the above works, try and have him run through a firmware update… it’s perhaps possible I missed one in programming, unlikely, but possible.
Other than that, perhaps the main USB cable got damaged somehow, does he have a spare USB cable to try on it’s own… I know he’s already done it with the board on it’s own, but it could be that the cable got a weird break in it from bending/cutting.
Looking pretty clean as is, next time just mount it to the underside of the 360 PCB and you won’t see it at all
Thanks! I thought about mounting it under, but I was kinda nervous about doing it like that on my first go. The only thing I’m not too fond of on this go was that I didn’t splice in the white on the 360PCB>Cerberus. It makes me sad to see the red,green,white,black in there. Ohh well, live and learn I guess.
Additionally, I JUST started soldering about a month ago. I don’t know how many people end up tinning the actual wires, but when I was soldering to the back side of the 360PCB it helped a boatload if I tinned the wire and it helped me get the connections without lots of attempts. Too bad I spent more time cutting and tinning than I did actually soldering and running the wires. LOL
So what’s the best way to provide VCC and GND to the 360 board when using the advanced face installation? Just solder a pair of jump wires from VCC and GND on the Cerberus’ USB In pads over to the VCC and GND on the 360’s USB In? I’d really love to do a “stealth” install with the Cerberus hidden under the TE PCB.
I could be wrong but i think they are already supplied to the 360 pcb. As for going from the 360 to the cerberus you just need to either run a jumper or open the shielding more. With mine i just opened the shielding a little bit more that way vcc and ground could reach and od- and od+ could reach
My stick works fine on Xbox and on the ps3, however it doesn’t work in-game on the PC (though the PC does recognize the controller.)
Any suggestions?