I don’t think ill be able to game it up that close to a PS3/PC.
Oh duh, I haven’t been paying much attention, but I think I might know what’s up with Edgar’s stick.
Yo dude, you’re using a 2013 Macbook Pro, right? That means your only two USB ports are running USB 3.0 right? And the stick worked previously on the Xbox just fine?
From personal experience, using USB 3.0 with ANYTHING that draws more power than a jump drive causes issues. We’ve switched out all the USB 3.0s at my game design campus with 2.0 ports specifically because they caused issues with our 360 controllers. I’ve got several flight sim controllers here at home that also suffers from this issue, and straight up won’t power up if they’re hooked up to my 3.0 ports. Only works on 2.0s
If my hunch is right, your stick is fine. Try and see if you can bring your stick to a friend’s place and try plugging it into a USB 2.0 port. This might be a case of unfortunate hardware limitations on behalf of your Laptop.
LOL, thanks for humoring me Egar, well played.
I didn’t even think about the 3.0 ports causing problems considering 3.0 is supposed to be able to actually handle a higher current draw. However, the Cerberus firmware is only rated for 2.0 compatibility and 3.0 may cause issues.
Edgar - Try a powered hub and see if that fixes what you’re seeing, it’s possible that Batt is right and it’s the draw causing issues.
@gahrling - You got 3.0 ports on your PC or just rocking Win8? Can you try that as well?
You know, oddly enough I tested a few sticks at EVO with my new laptop but avoided the 3.0 port as much as possible, that’s something I’ll have to try and see if I find a difference post-mod.
No 3.0 ports, and no Win8. All the pc’s I have to test on use Win7 64bit
@Phreakazoid I knew you would get a kick out of the length of the cable. LOL
@Batt You may be on to something in regards to USB 3.0
@gahrling It’s weird that none of your PC’s will detect the boards in a dual mod set up. I just tried my desired set up (cerberus+madcatz pcb) on a laptop with win 7 (32bit) with USB 2.0 ports and it worked fine in all modes. However, the PC is shit and I can’t run SF4 on it so it was only good for testing.
OK, so these are the different set ups I have tried and their results:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f186/playa-v/cerb.png
Even though I havent tested the Cerberus on a PS3 yet i’m certain it will work since it looks like my issue is related to USB 3.0.
The only thing left for me to try is a TPDT switch for the d-,d+ and VCC wires.
When you go to the device manager and have it install the drivers, then skip the windows update option, it doesn’t finalize?
So weird. I’m using the same OS, both this PC and my laptop, no problems with registering.
Oh man, that blows. At least we know what the problem is, but still, that’s unfortunate. I hope your attempt with the switch works out for you.
There might be a chance that a powered USB 2.0 hub hooked up to your 3.0 port might work (though that’d be a pain to have to break out every time you want to use your stick), but I’m not positive that would even work. If I had a powered hub on my end, I’d do some testing with my gear.
Unfortunately, none of my hubs are powered :\
So im just gonna stick with using the DPDT switch. I figured using a TPDT was “maybe” going to enable the cerberus so I could have PC functionality but the DPDT switch was already providing me PC functionality in Xbox360 mode. Kinda bummed im gonna end up adding a switch to the fightstick since the purpose of me buying a Cerberus was to avoid modifications to the case. =[
If you use a powered hub does the issue subside? I don’t want you to have to use a switch if the only spot you have that this is an issue is on the one laptop.
I don’t have a powered USB hub to test on at the moment. I’ll report the results of using the hub once I get my hands on one.
Great, thank you.
It may end up being required for dual modded sticks up and coming if many end up with 3.0 only hardware, not just ones with Cerberus in them so it’d be awesome to have that confirmation.
Forgot to pick up that Cerberus I wanted to get 
Just jumping in to say I recently purchased the mod, had an easy time installing it and all that. I had a hell of a time getting it to work on my main pc however. Worked with my ps3 and 360 without a problem, even worked fine on my laptop when I plugged it in. On my pc it kept coming up as ‘unrecognized device’ despite all my best efforts, tried it in every port 2.0 and 3.0. However running it through a powered USB 2.0 hub seemed to fix it. So the mods been working wonderfully, but the whole situation has left me scratching my head as to what exactly made my pc react to it this way.
clayton is there something you can do to boost power on the data lines on the cerb itself?
Hi, I’m having problems on installing my cerberus in my Razer Atrox. It’s not working on ps3. Also the razer logo keeps blinking
I’ve taken a picture is it how it is supposed to be connected?
I think you did the USB connections wrong, you have to “cut” the USB traces going from the USB connector to the rest of the board.
There should be some 0 ohm resistors on the Data + and Data - lines for the usb traces.
Unsolder those resistors, you should have usb wires going from the connector to the Cerberus board, and from the XB Data+ and Data- lines to the solder points where those resistors are going to the rest of the razer PCB. Those Xbox USB lines are labeled XD- and XD+, which you did not solder anything too.
See the small circle above where you have your outgoing USB connected to? Slice those 2 traces very carefully. Then unplug your OD-/+ from there and solder under it to the pins for data on the proprietary USB header.
Then, connect your XD-/+ to the pins where you currently have your OD-/+ connected.
I forgot the changes made from the Beta to production version of the Atrox arcade stick.
Yeah I had an old pic that Gummo had and i noticed it was a beta unit, so I made my own image from a unit I worked on.