So i recently purchased a used ps3 madcatz te1 round 1, and up to now it’s been working fine. Ever since today however, I started noticing that the stick randomly stopped registering inputs while I was playing, and I’m not entirely sure why. I was playing USFIV on a PS4, which supports ps3 sticks such as this one.
I plugged my te into my pc and played some fighting games, and in worked perfectly fine, so I thought it may have been a problem with the PS4. I went into USFIV’s training mode and started messing around, and I noticed a few things.
When i pressed lp,lk and mp at the same time, the stick would stop registering inputs, but I know that power was still running, as the turbo lights were still working. I also found out that the button combinations only killed the stick when they were executed “manually”, as in each command done with their own buttons, so if i set L1 to throw(lp+lk) and then pressed mp at the same time, nothing would happen. setting L1 to red focus(lp+lk+mp) was the same. Also, holding forward or backwards plus any attack button would also sometimes kill the stick, although sometimes it didn’t.
I have a spare qanba q1 lying around, and after testing in the same training mode, it worked without problem, which leads me to believe that the problem lies with the pcb of the te1.
I want to know if that is the case, and if it is, how do I replace it? I had a look at the internals, and the wires for the buttons and usb were directly soledered onto the pcb, so I’m guessing that I’ll need to cut them and solder them onto the new pcb.
Thanks in advance.
Maybe it has something to do with the recent software update and nothing to do with your stick. I think the qanbas mimic DS3 while Madcatz had to make hardware from scratch to get it work. Sounds stupid but that might be a possibility. Do you have any pc games to try out with it for testing purposes like a fighting game from steam or a emulator perhaps? It works fine there, the only thing I can think of possibly doing if I were in your shoes is try getting a Brook Ps3 to Ps4 adapter and that may fix the issues.
Plus you have the added benefit of not worry about if the game has legacy controller support like if you want to get into Dragon Ball FighterZ or arcade games that may come out.
Reason I am asking is sometimes static electricity can effect stick inputs, and lap play, Metal stick on fabric pants could produce some static charge, which when release can cause erroneous inputs.
If so, there could be a easy fix to this:
Get your self a spade connector
Attach a wire to this going to common ground, if nothing else tie this to your USB Ground.
Attach the spade connector to a already existing screw inside the top panel of your stick (like where the joystick is installed). Repeat this with the bottom panel.
@wikidone0321 I have played sf alpha 3(using mame) on my pc using the stick without any problems.
I’m considering getting a brook ps3 to ps4 adapter, but is upgrading the pcb to a ps4 one directly better? @Darksakul I play on my lap, but I doubt it’s the problem. I’ll try playing on a table anyway, and see if it fixes the problem.
I mean yes but you have to actually get into the stick and mod it as compared to plugging a USB device in the console and playing. If you want to mod it you can use a Brook Ps4+ Fight board and The Real Phoenix here on SRK, makes a replacement pcb for the Madcatz TE to work with the new board so you still have native turbo and all that jazz. All in all it all comes down to if you feel comfortable modding your stick it will probably be more beneficial in the long run but that’s if you are comfortable. If not you can either get the Converter or send it off to be modded.
By process of elimination is seems like it’s not the stick. I mean you did the same exact thing on the pc that you did on the ps4. Did you try the on the table thing that @Darksakul suggested? Did you notice it happen basically after the update? Unfortunately I don’t have a game that supports legacy controllers or I’d try my Madcatz SE for you to see if it did the same thing.
Well the stick was on my lap while playing sfa3 on my pc, and i didn’t experience any problems then, so I don’t think static electricity is the problem.
It’s probably the firmware thing then. Like I said you can use the converter for the games that don’t support legacy controllers too. Plus they update it if it needs updating. This last time it only took a day to get it to work.
Yeah dude. Crack that thing open @Underpup and run a continuity test. An extra expenditure for a plug-in adapter will be for naught if you don’t check the stick itself first…
if you got a multimeter set that thing up for diode test and listen for the beeps, a beep means continuity is detected.
If you don’t have Diode test for your multimeter use the Resistor/Ohm meter settings.
if you dont have a multimeter, some wire, a LED and a battery makes for a quick and dirty continuity tester
