Guys, if anyone has had the same problem please I could really use some help.
Last weekend I got back from a trip to the US. I got a TE2+ from amazon.com and brought it back with me to Chile.
The thing is as soon as I connected it to the PS4 I noticed something was off. The buttons: X, square, triangle and R1 are not working. I reconnected it a few times but it didn’t work.
I opened hood of the stick and reconnected the cables to the buttons, again nothing.
I moved the pin connector from the buttons and square, triangle and R1 worked when the connector got to some angle, but as soon as I released it, the stopped working again.
The X button never worked.
I seriously do not know what could be wrong, this is a brand new arcade stick.
If some of you got any idea please let me know.
I’ll leave an image of the pin connector I was talking about earlier. Thanks a lot
Check the PCB connections to the turbo board and the main board. Make sure the molex is fully in.
It’s possible moving the angle simply connected wires elsewhere and the connection you were moving was just a coincidence, but that’s a guess.
On my (now old) Madcatz FSPro TE that I bought new from Watson’s arcade, the top panel wasn’t responding at all and the lock slider wasn’t working. Turned out a JST needed to be pushed in more and it was all good.
Double check all of the JST connections and any Quick disconnects going to the other areas (I haven’t seen the inside of a TE2 so I don’t know if there are any) and then report back.
Thanks for the advice, I opened it and everything was connected just fine.
I double checked everything, and noticed some stuff.
First of all every, button works except for the “X”. I tried reconnecting the “X” cables to another already functional button and it didn’t work. Besides that, I had the “L” button, mapped to all 3 “kick” buttons, but when I pressed it, it only registered medium and fierce kick. Which gives me the idea that the only “broken” thing regarding de buttons is the “X” button cables or wires (don’t know the right name for it).
Something else I noticed (and it seems to be wrong but given the fact that it’s my first mad catz controller I dunno) its that the stick doesn’t work on the pause menu of SFV. In practice mode I could move alright, but as soon as I paused the game, the stick didn’t move anything. I tried all 3 modes “LS-DP-RS”, it didn’t matter.
Hope this information can give you any ideas. Is it possible to change just the X wires?
After 1 hour of trying to figure out what was causing the problem, replacing the inline resistor (which was not working well out of the box) with a 10kOhm (just a resistor i had in my bag) fixed the problem…
Sorry for the gravedigging but I have a very similar problem and I felt like it would have been stupid to start a new topic on it.
So, I found a TE2+ at some flea market and got a good price. The guy was saying that he was perfectly working (obviously), but when I got home and tried it i noticed that the triangle button wasn’t working. Moreover, when pressing L1 just LP and HP icons would show up in the inputted commands (thing I noticed later). I inverted the L1 and triangle cables and the situation didn’t change, this enabled me to rule out the button as a possible cause. I used the cables from a friend of mine’s (perfectly working) TE2 and still had the same problem. I came back to the original cables, still mounting triangle and L1 inverted and set L1 as MP and triangle to PPP and was surprised to see that now all the punch buttons stopped working as a final trial I kept the triangle and L1 inverted and set L1 as MP and triangle as “nothing”. The result was that the three punches buttons worked as intended :o
Since I use only 6 buttons when I play, I can keep it like this and it will be perfectly fine. But deep down inside it bothers me so much it hurts. So I searched on the internet and found this thread and got hopeful that my problem was the same: a defective resistor. So I went and checked all the SMD resistors on the pcb, then compared the results to the nominal value given by the code on them and… all the values are ok
Here is what I found:
Now, if they screwed up and put a wrong resistor in the wrong spot I have no way to know it. The resistors match their nominal values. So I am stuck. I am quite new to modding and while I have a soldering station, a multimeter etc I lack the basic knowledge to go further I try things. Can somebody please help?
Those are pictures of the pcb: imgur.com/a/CyrGS imgur.com/a/ZQETN
My attention got caught by the black circle (I didn’t do it) and one of the soldering of the cable that seems poorly done. imgur.com/a/skHmU imgur.com/a/7rKE3
Other side of the soldering that seemed poorly done.
I thank in advance anybody who is willing to help, I really don’t know what to do
In the end I went for that (and now it works like a charm) but I still want to mess around with the old PCB in order to locate where the shit was. Just out of curiosity and to improve my electronics skills.
Any suggestions on what to look for? I wanted to test all the diodes and see if I have some screwed up capacitors. Other things to look for?
as a final trial I kept the triangle and L1 inverted and set L1 as MP and triangle as “nothing”. The result was that the three punches buttons worked as intended :o