You have it basically correct, yes. However with the TE-S style of stick you’d need the harness for the kitty which is another 5$ (not a huge deal, just something of note). Cerberus also allows for Player Indications on the guide ring, does not touch the turbo LEDs at all, whereas the Kitty does fun stuffs with the turbo LEDs and shows what direction you are pressing on the guide ring.
Both require you to cut the USB cable (making it repairable fairly easy if you want to put it back to stock), Cerberus does not require you to strip the 4 individual wires, only to cut away the black sheath.
Both work fantastic for dual modding your stick, it’s just dependent on what options you’re desiring.
Indeed, this firmware/implementation is completely different in the way it’s handled. Far more solid and based on proven open source code and hardware. No weird firmware corruption.
As I said before, I have no problems sending you a Cerberus to replace the TEasy you originally had, but remember that this won’t fit older sticks and if it does fit your stick you’d need to re-attach the USB cable to the 360 PCB.
Barring that, no I have no issues replacing it with the new board since I really hated seeing those old problems.
As for the USB device name editing? No immediate plans but if there’s serious interest I could look into it.
The USB cable isn’t an issue, i’ve done my fair share of usb cable transplants.
The USB Name isn’t a huge issue either, I just like to give all of my sticks unique names, especially if other people need to use them for PC games like Melty Blood, at a tournament, it’s easier to identify than two 360 TE pcbs in the windows applet.
Just shoot me an email with your address. I’ll pop it in the mail on Friday/early saturday with the completed orders. If you want to send back the old board that’s fine, I’ll give you my address in a reply email.
You mentioned that Madcatz V.S. sticks require an extra step for installation but I don’t see any mention of it in the installation guide. Does it require any modification or does it mount okay without any issue?
Derp, that’s supposed to say PRO (have to break the standoffs and mount with adhesive anchors/zip ties). V.S. sticks require no extra steps, the only thing I suppose is that the plastic top that initially went over the 360 PCB can’t be put back on, but other than that it mounts just peachy.
wait phreak, I just realized, if people are going to use this on their evo sticks, won’t the layout be changed because its the MS layout instead of the SF layout?
The SC and Blaz stick have MS as well so it should be a non issue. Another thing also most may want to cut the pcb down to mini size in the first place to install in the evo stick, so you don’t have to modify the case. It may look weird/bad since the Evo stick is translucent.I have some ideas that may work without cutting but I can’t say for sure without seeing the Cerberus in person.
Yeah You’re right the layout is different but it really does not mater since all the pcb connections are the same
Well my idea was take a cerb with no connectors (a blank pcb) and take the pro MC pcb remove the JST connectors from the board while leaving the pins in place. You would have to carefully pry the JST connectors up with a tiny flat head from the MC board then take the cerb board and apply it over the pro MC pcb. You may also have to apply a super thin piece of plastic like you get from a hobby stores so there’s no parts other than the pins touching between the two boards or do like Gummo does and use some electrical tape like when he’s combining boards in super tight spaces. You may then have to modify the JST plugs with a Dremel to take off a millimeter or two to make for a better connection to the two combinded boards with maybe a little hot glue to keep the wire tapes in place since the metal prongs would be shorter and of course you would have to hard wire the usb wire. Keep in mind this is all speculation, but I plan on giving it a try.
I would only suggest this for the Evo Pro’s because I’m sure people don’t want to cut the pcb stand off from the evo stick it being clear and all being able to see the pcb through the top of the case
The PCB connections are the same, as are the harness spots on the QD terminal, I think they just route the QD connections to the main panel differently to accommodate their attempted layout.
So if you install the cerberus, the layout you see on the CP should remain on both systems.
