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So I’ve been reading the xbone controller padhacking thread, watching a bunch of videos on how to solder, and even practicing soldering wire to contacts on an old ps1 controller. I want to try the real thing now and swap out the pcb of my hori real arcade pro 3 for the ps3 with an xbone controller pcb. But the one issue that I want to settle before I start is how to I use my arcade sticks home button, since it is an actual push button. Here are pictures of the pcb for the hori stick, is there any way to wire the xbone home button to it and have it work? I’m not sure how to map it.

Top Side

http://imageshack.us/a/img18/2778/66j2.jpg

Bottom Side

http://imageshack.us/a/img10/3301/zjdc.jpg

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Try using a multimeter to test for continuity at certain points to locate your ground and signal lines. Its a very simple process and is in essence identical to a button just without the terminals to crimp connections for.

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Pnoy is correct. That looks pretty simple and straight forward. What size wire are you using? I thi.k that is what can make it harder for someone not used to it

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I’m using 22 gauge wire.

Unfortunately due to my noobishness, I broke pcb, it doesn’t even show up as a usb device when I plug it in to my pc. I’m gonna purchase a single sanwa button now and use some wood to mount where my turbo panel previously was so I can use it as a home button when I do the xbone padhack. thanks for the replies guys

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22 gauge is too big. Go for AT LEAST 26. A lot of the experienced modders here use 28 or 30 or even smaller. I usually use 28 AWG.

You might not have broken the PCB. Redo the USB wires and try again. USB will recognize in a PC (even if the D+ and D- lines are not proper) as long as you have Ground and Voltage in properly.

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I am going to invest in some 28 gauge wire then. I’m done with this pcb though, it’s broken, it won’t show up in windows or linux as a usb device. Besides I don’t need it anyways. I was only trying to use it so I wouldn’t have to replace my home button and I could use the push button on the turbo panel of the stick. But now the whole turbo panel is coming off. thanks anyways though. I’m too frustrated to try to do any more soldering tonight.

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This is on the money right here. I would not go for a wire no thicker than 24 gauge.

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I personally find soldering relaxing, I guess I’m weird

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I thought that Xbone pads didn’t work on PC?

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PC will recognize it as a USB device, possibly as a USB gamepad, there just isn’t a fancy driver like the 360 pad has which tells windows “HEY THIS IS A MICROSOFT XBOX 360 WIRED (or wireless if you’re a chump) GAMEPAD” and then it gets named specifically.

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I haven’t started padhacking the xbone controller yet. This is the pcb from the arcade stick that I want to put my xbone pcb into.

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Is this reason why when I wiring a ps1 pad for practice that the buttons would get stuck, as if the signal and the ground have been soldered permanently together. I hoping that it is because if it isn’t I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. At first would work fine when tested it out, then some of the buttons started to stick. God damn, at this point I might as well just drop 350 to buy the KI stick from scalper on ebay…sigh if only i had the money

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He said “it doesn’t even show up as a usb device when I plug it in to my pc”.
Although drivers aren’t out for it your computer will still recognize that you have a USB device plugged in.

Larger wire is never going to help your solder job. There’s no way to tell what you did on your PS1 pad unless you posted photos, but it could have been as simple as a bit of solder or wire touching a ground on the board or even a screw.

Either way, it sounds like you’re practicing and getting experience and that’s the only way to learn.

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I don’t know then, what do know is my hori stick no longer shows up under game pads in windows, and in linux when type lsusb into the terminal there is no sign of it either

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pics or it didn’t happen