First wave of third party Xbox One padhack options

[zaneiken]

I would post pics of my boards, but I do not have a decent camera (webcam) and the wiring is a mess.

Does your cellphone not have a camera?

[Tjizzle]

I got a PDP fight pad… here is the pcb… dont know if ts common ground or not

I was wondering if you were able to get this working? I have the same pad and I have it all wired up but when I plug it in some of the buttons are always active -Up, A and RB

[Tjizzle]

Here is what I have going on so far. I hot glued the solder points already because when I tested them by touching them to the ground, I seen them activate. It was only when I wired them to my arcade stick buttons that I seen they remained active. In my self built arcade stick now I have the Hori FC4 and it works fine, that is the only other PCB. The Hori was my first pad hack so I am still green on the subject.

Here is what the test looks like after I wired it into my arcade stick. The LT and RT activate the Z axis only but no buttons - does this mean it needs inverted?

On the front I only soldered the Ground, Home, Start, Select

On the back I soldered everything else.

[FattyWinnarz]

So I made one of the hex inverters with the resistors on it, but do I wire from that to the buttons that I’ll be using, or run two wires from the pads on the PCB with one going to the inverter and one to my button, or am I overthinking this and the way that electricity works would basically make them both function the same?

[poisonmar]

Here is what I have going on so far. I hot glued the solder points already because when I tested them by touching them to the ground, I seen them activate. It was only when I wired them to my arcade stick buttons that I seen they remained active. In my self built arcade stick now I have the Hori FC4 and it works fine, that is the only other PCB. The Hori was my first pad hack so I am still green on the subject.

Here is what the test looks like after I wired it into my arcade stick. The LT and RT activate the Z axis only but no buttons - does this mean it needs inverted?

On the front I only soldered the Ground, Home, Start, Select

On the back I soldered everything else.

This might be the same problem Gummo is talking about. He said it only happened on the PS4 version but it might be a problem with this one too.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/discussion/196422/pdp-mortal-kombat-x-pad#latest

[Gummo]

I didn’t have an issue wiring up the xb1 mkx in a dual mod.

[poisonmar]

Thanks Gummo.

[poisonmar]

So I made one of the hex inverters with the resistors on it, but do I wire from that to the buttons that I’ll be using, or run two wires from the pads on the PCB with one going to the inverter and one to my button, or am I overthinking this and the way that electricity works would basically make them both function the same?

Wire 1A on the inverter to the RT button and 6A to the LT button.

[Gummo]

How’d you wire up the dpad. The pinout for it from top to bottom is gnd, up, right, left, down. You might have up signal wired to gnd or bridged the gnd and up pin together.

You might have the face button wires soldered to the wrong pin. look at the A button. There’s three pins with one you have wired up and the middle pin to ground.

[shaunLEGEND]

I’m sure it’s coming but any chance you guys can label the soldering points for this pad? I tried comparing the pics but the glue Tjizzle used makes it hard to tell what points and what it’s for.

[Tjizzle]

How’d you wire up the dpad. The pinout for it from top to bottom is gnd, up, right, left, down. You might have up signal wired to gnd or bridged the gnd and up pin together.

You might have the face button wires soldered to the wrong pin. look at the A button. There’s three pins with one you have wired up and the middle pin to ground.

Yea I have it wired as U, R, L,D and nothing on the top GND, I’ll check to see if I have a a bridge to the GND. As far as the face buttons, I soldered it to the one that activated the button when I touched it to the ground, it was always the one directly under the red microswitch.

Also do the triggers need to be inverted?

[Tjizzle]

I used stevedave’s pics to show how I wired mine up and then I threw together a quick paint diagram to show how I have it wired in my stick. I checked for a bridge between the U and GND but it looks clear. Any help is appreciated!

[buyproduct]

I used stevedave’s pics to show how I wired mine up and then I threw together a quick paint diagram to show how I have it wired in my stick. I checked for a bridge between the U and GND but it looks clear. Any help is appreciated!

In you last pic, you have not shown that you have connected the power from one pcb to another. You also did not label the VCC line on the pad. Did you forget to do this or just forget to draw it? Cause if you forgot to do it, that may be your problem.

[Darksakul]

Toodle’s TWO Golden rules of Pad Hacking

1. All Boards must be connected to power
2. All Boards must be connected to common ground

On the PDP pad VCC or Power is the red wire from the USB.

[poisonmar]

My money is on it being the VCC B)

[Tjizzle]

In you last pic, you have not shown that you have connected the power from one pcb to another. You also did not label the VCC line on the pad. Did you forget to do this or just forget to draw it? Cause if you forgot to do it, that may be your problem.

Toodle’s TWO Golden rules of Pad Hacking

1. All Boards must be connected to power
2. All Boards must be connected to common ground

On the PDP pad VCC or Power is the red wire from the USB.

My thinking was that since I use the USB cables independently from one another that I wouldn’t have to connect the power from one PCB to another. If this is not the case, would I just run a wire from the VCC on the PDP pad to the VCC on the Hori pad?

For the second rule, does that mean I just run the ground from the PDP pad to the Hori pad and isn’t that the same thing I am doing in my diagram by connecting them through the terminal? Or should I not be using the ground from the PDP pad at all?

I have it setup exactly as I have drawn out above and the Hori pad works fine. I didn’t modify the usb cable on either one, I use them as they came already wired to the PCB. I use them separately depending on which console I am connecting to. I open my case and manually change the usb cable connected to the feed through.

[buyproduct]

In you last pic, you have not shown that you have connected the power from one pcb to another. You also did not label the VCC line on the pad. Did you forget to do this or just forget to draw it? Cause if you forgot to do it, that may be your problem.

Toodle’s TWO Golden rules of Pad Hacking

1. All Boards must be connected to power
2. All Boards must be connected to common ground

On the PDP pad VCC or Power is the red wire from the USB.

My thinking was that since I use the USB cables independently from one another that I wouldn’t have to connect the power from one PCB to another. If this is not the case, would I just run a wire from the VCC on the PDP pad to the VCC on the Hori pad?

For the second rule, does that mean I just run the ground from the PDP pad to the Hori pad and isn’t that the same thing I am doing in my diagram by connecting them through the terminal? Or should I not be using the ground from the PDP pad at all?

I have it setup exactly as I have drawn out above and the Hori pad works fine. I didn’t modify the usb cable on either one, I use them as they came already wired to the PCB. I use them separately depending on which console I am connecting to. I open my case and manually change the usb cable connected to the feed through.

You have to connect the vcc from one pad to the other. You can do it like you did the ground in your picture. You have to do it because even though you are not using one of the pads, it is “leaching” power off the powered pad and can lead to voltage drops which can lead to false button presses and other weirdness.

[Gummo]

I updated the PDP section with the mkx pad.

[Yenjoi]

gonna give this hori pad a try for xbox one mod.

Still waiting patiently to get those pdp pads though

[FattyWinnarz]

So I made one of the hex inverters with the resistors on it, but do I wire from that to the buttons that I’ll be using, or run two wires from the pads on the PCB with one going to the inverter and one to my button, or am I overthinking this and the way that electricity works would basically make them both function the same?

Wire 1A on the inverter to the RT button and 6A to the LT button.

No I understand that part, I mean when actually wiring all my buttons up to the PCB itself. Do I run two separate wires from the Mini controller’s RT and LT, one of which goes to a button and the other to the 1A and 6A pins, or do I do one wire from RT and LT to the 1A and 6A pins, then another wire from those two pins to my buttons in my stick?