hey guys quick question -
in the following picture (which is taken from the a guide on modding the hori wii fighting stick), should I be wiring the sanwa to the fs3 pcb in exactly the same way?
from top to bottom, Green, Black, Red, SKIP, SKIP, Yellow, SKIP, Orange.
Is that right?
Oh and maxx mania just to let you know, i’ve followed your advice with attaching the stick, it’s very crude but it works!, i’ll post pics after i’ve got the soldering sorted !
Lol, yeah man, I never said it was pretty, but I’m glad it works for you!
I’m still waiting on buttons & plugs, but I might go ahead and start soldering the new wires this weekend.
Maxx,
Don’t you think you kinda over engineered your case mod? All you had to do was remove the metal plate, find holes on the case and sanwa that lined up and screw’em together, make a small hole on the bottom of the case for the stick’s tip to protrude and maybe attach some thicker rubber feet so it doesn’t bottom out.
Notanoob,
I don’t think that I follow what you’re saying. Unless I wanted the shaft to be really low down in the stick, there’s no real way to simply drill some holes in the plastic and extend pad clearance on the bottom. I’d have to dremel down a lot of the underside of the plastic to make the stick fit flush, and I still think the stick would be a bit low, but maybe my stick’s too high, I’m not an expert.
The other idea I had with my JLW mod was to make a clear hole in the plastic and attach the mounting plate to the bottom of the metal overlay, but I don’t have countersink bits, and I don’t like the screws sticking up at the corners, they scrape my hand when I rest it, so until I can fix the holes and get this right, I’m not going to post pics/endorse it.
If you have proof of concept, I’d love to see your idea. I never said my method was the best, I just like the fact that I don’t have to mod the joystick at all.
Edit: The whole process took about an hour, excluding playing other games while my dremel battery recharged.
can anyone answer the question about the wiring i’ve posted above? I’ve soldered it that way now so I hope it’s right!
just a quick update now the forums are back online - i’ve soldered in the wires from the sanwa to the fs3 pcb in the way that the above picture shows and it does not work.
Could someone tell me how exactly to wire this as I can’t find any information anywhere! Help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
I’m retired on mod case and custom joystick. maxx mana will hand of work on how to mods. thank you.
MajorZ: I found this on an earlier page of this thread, posted by romvjr. You should be able to match things up from this.
I used the holes for stock stick and mounted it like this…
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/449/dscn0941vr1.th.jpg
It’s stable and square. When done like this, the stick height more closely emulates an actual Japanese machine.
This gives an idea for how much sticks out but, the opening needs to be enlarged further.
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5593/dscn0945iv7.jpg
I will try to have complete proof of concept soon but, lately my time’s too limited.
Thanks very much really appreciate it, that picture is a little small so can I clarify:
Going downwards up (in the picture) it should be ORANGE, skip, YELLOW, BLACK, RED, skip, GREEN ???
Thanks -
HFS3 actually has a common ground, the wires are misleading, at least that what I remember others saying earlier in this thread.
Edit: Sorry forgot to post image link
This was posted further back, hope it helps, but yeah, I’m pretty sure there’s a common on the PCB.
That’s the way I see it too. Also, note that these apply to the stick orientation in the photo and to the order of colors coming out of the stick.
This is how I wired mine:
Pins facing right…
Black = Ground
Orange = Up
Yellow = Left
Red = Down
Green = Right
on PCB from top to bottom:
1 - black
2 - green
3 - SKIP
4 - red
5 - SKIP
6 - yellow
7 - orange
8 - SKIP
This could be different depending on where your pins are facing, but black is ground for sure.
Easiest way to test it before you solder is to solder just the black ground then press the wires against the pcb squares and test them. Find out what does what then solder everything correctly.
excuse my ignorance but what is a common ground? I’m not too sure what you’re saying. Is the black wire not the ground?
I should’ve mentioned this is my first mod (and soldering experience - jumped in at the deep end I guess!) and i’m literally just following the guides on here.
Could you explain in laymans terms how to wire this up as i’m getti really confused - apologies in advance for the trouble guys :china:
Sorry man, my bad.
So you normally have to wire a ground to each switch, but because you’re using a JLF, the black cable acts as a common ground for all switches on the joystick.
Similarly, the PCB of the HFS3 uses a common ground, meaning that all grounds are actually shared, so you can get away with soldering just the black to the PCB, connecting the common grounds of both PCBs.
To give some perspective, if you weren’t using a PCB-based stick, you’d need to solder/crimp a ground to each one of the switches on the joystick, and then either run each one of these to the HFS3 PCB or do a daisy-chain. The PCB effectively saves you from this work.
Also, if this is your first solder job, there are some good videos on youtube with solder tips/tricks.
Just a quick message to say thanks to everyone who responded, especial maxx mana with the info on how to mount the JLF in that way and canto for the genius idea of grounding the jlf then testing each direction and soldering that way (it was genius to me anyway 
) It took me pretty much all night but I finished the job and everything works great:
A note to everyone thinking of pulling that sticker off the top of the metal plate: DO IT CAREFULLY! You do not want to go through the hassle of finding a product to lift the sticky goo crap that it leaves off, I ended up really messing mine up and having to sand it to give it a brushed alloy look - eventually i’ll get round to putting a vinyl skin on there or something but for now it’ll have to do!
Majorz,
Your overlay looks awesome! Very shiny, you could probably paint the plastic and just leave the overlay as it is and still have a good look.
Majorz is that a Tekken stick I see very cool. I ruined a fs3 first time I modded one so good job you the man.
:wtf: only 4 buttons…I love snk classic games has only 4 buttons. :smokin:
Any opinions on my question about the Fighting Stick PS?
