- I’d just strip the l and r wire and splice some wire right to that. Much easier than soldering.
- That looks like the ground. From the start button trace the green lead. Whichever one leads to the black ball (heart of the pcb) is the hot trace. Other is ground. Try to find a white sony ps1 dual shock. Much better for soldering and only 3.99 at eb games.
Very nice. 2 things I would’ve done though:
- countersink screws.
- Fill all gaps and the countersunk screws for a nice smooth finish. Look something like pic.
What do you mean by hot trace? That’s the ones I should solder to?
WTF!!! All connection test are positive?!? Help me out here please… For some reason, EVERYTHING is connected! I try the ground with any positive connection and its connected, I try two positive connections and they are connected…Sry, wires are a big mess but I just couldn’t do better well didn’t want to.
Pic 2 PCB
Ok, now I’m really confused. I tried checking continuity on another PCB and all tests were positive also and that is with a PCB that I didn’t solder anything to it yet so what’s wrong? Is that normal?
You should definitely try a different controller. The one in my pic is a mad catz and sold at wal-mart for $5. Very easy to solder to and cheap. You can also drill the small holes to slip the wire through the bottom. Overall the easiest pcb I ever worked with.
Update: Tried the stick with the ps2 and the only buttons working are the select and start. I notice the only difference in how I connected them is that for the start, I used a knife to scratch till I see copper and for the select, I soldered on an already soldered point.
The reason why I don’t wanna buy a new controller is that I already spent $125 on the arcade stick and I don’t want to put more money in it and I’m sure there’s a way to make it work.
Can it be the solder spots that aren’t good?
I once red about a one or two ground PCB, how would it affect the buttons and how can I check?
you just brought something to my attention. im almost finished with my xbox stick, and plan on starting my sanwa ps2 stick next. i noticed you posted a pic of the mad catz pcb, but how well does it work with convertors? i was also told about the sony ps1 dual shocks. i heard they work well with most if not all convertors.
If you can find the sony dual shock 1 for ps1 go fpr that. As for converter compatability I haven’t had any issues yet except with sfac for xbox. The converter I’m using is the $10 wal mart one.
ok, thats cool then, because thats the convertor i use.
Now I’m really pissed.
Even without connecting the ground, when I plug the joystick in the ps2, the character (playing 3s) keeps on jumping backward with no ground connected! What could be the reason of that?
If a controller has 2 ground, does that mean I have to use two different connection for the grounds or I can connect the first to the second and make that both grounds become one?
Play it safe and run a ground for each button from the pad. Use the correct grounding point(instead of the same one over and over) for each ground wire.
Hi,
Wondering if anyone is in NJ or NYC, I’m in Bergen County, I have TONS of sticks, 2 MAS multi systems (PS,N64 and Saturn),X-arcade 2 player,(multi), X-Arcade solo for X-box, a bunch of pelican real arcades, multi, xbox and ps2. A SNES MK stick, a nicely hacked pelican real arcade for saturn which is great.
I’d like to take a bunch of these sticks and have someone mod and hack them with the best innards, so I have 2 great stick for dreamcast, saturn, x-box and ps2, maybe I’ll do one for a neo geo system too,(looking into buying one of those).
I just signed up at SRK but have been a lurker for a long time.
Thanks,
Bob
I got the left/right/up and all buttons to work out but the controller still sticks on the up/left direction… I found out something strange today: when I test continuity of the down direction, I only get positive when the controller ISN’T plugged in, when I plug it, the electricity doesn’t pass anymore. Same for the up direction but in opposite case, when not plugged, it negative, when I plug it, it tests positive… I wanted to buy mad catz controllers but the only I found were $15 each! Where can I find used ones?
Anyone tried the Hip Gear controller’s PCB for ps2? That’s the cheapest I found so far for $8.50 each (I need 2…) How good or bad is the PCB to work with?
PS2 PCB’s are very hard to hack because of the analog buttons. I’d suggest getting a Official Sony Dual Shock 1 pre PS2. I don’t know how much they are where you live but you can get them used at GameStop for any where from $5-10 each.
And they are easy to hack.
Here’s my first custom stick. Made the box and artwork myself and it’s dimensions are about 6 inches tall, 12 inches deep, and 15 inches wide. It has a sanwa stick and happ competition buttons. Special thanks to SpiffyShoes for helping me wire it.
Another image of same stick.
very nice stick. love the artwork. my box is completed and im currently putting the finishing touches on it, but its not very pretty. any tips that you guys could give me when i work on my next box? my main problems were wood cracking (which i think could be fixed my pre drilling holes) and cutting issues.
EDIT: also, i dont have that great of an environment to do all the work for my stick. been struggling just to get the right tools and equipment. i have no work bench, which i also feel is the reason for my cuts being off.