so P360s won’t work on the old PS2 dual shock? that sux…that’s the one i have…plus, will they work on a MC DC dreampad?
The Dual Shock 2 controller released for the PS2 will not work. The original Dual Shock for the original Playstation will.
THe dual shock 2 will work. Although I did mine with a dual shock 1, several of my friends did it with the 2.
How did your friends hack the PS2 controller?
If you’re hacking just the digital controls, it’s pretty much IDENTICAL to a Dual Shock 1.
The problem that we found with the PS2-P360 is that you’re trying to wire a strictly digital switch with its own voltage requirements to an analog switch with different voltage requirements. With the PS2 controller, the only digital controls are Start, Select, and the Analog button. Everything else is analog with the variant voltage operation that the P360 can’t do.
The only real chance that we saw would be to change what Vcc and Ground are wired to on the P360. I tried to wire the P360 with 3.3v on Vcc and then with the common line on the ground pin, but that didn’t work.
I’d be real eager to see their wiring scheme.
Hmmm… I probably don’t understand enough about electronics… but aren’t the button operations from a “physical” standpoint digital? i.e. when you press UP, DOWN, etc <-- it’s just a metal piece connecting two points. Although the operations on the PCB itself may be analog, all the button pressing is a “digital” operation, in the sense that you either have the circuit OPEN, or CLOSED. <-- there are no variants other than that (open or closed) with the directional controls or the X, O, Square, Triangle.
My understanding of the p360 was that the +5v was there just to power the photosensors.
The actual switch closing, triggered by a photosensor, would work just like closing a circuit with a button, microswtich, etc
Anyhow, I assume you got everything working with a PS1 dualshock instead.
How do you like the p360s? <-- I still prefer them to all of the other joysticks I’ve used.
Help Metalslug
I’m having a real hard time soldering on the ps dual shock controller. Its not like i haven’t soldered before. i have soldered 3 of the psx 1000 controllers on cd visions page and i have soldered on some playstation ones. But for some reason i can’t get the solder to stay on the controller with the wire. I even had my friend try. He has ,odded alot of ps2’s and xbox. For some reason we just can’t get the wire to stay on the ps1 dual shock controller. Do u have any advice/tips for me? is there anywhere i can get a pic of your soldering.
there seems to be no help in this thread…i’ll buy a mas stick for god’s sake :rolleyes:
here is my first custom made stick. hope you guyz injoy.
a little info:
took me about half a year but only becouse of my own lazyness.it has a ultimate softspring (its ok but i wanted a hard spring). compitition buttons (18 in all 6 red,6 blue,6 green) it has plexy glass on top and i usally switch pictures (right now its my powerpuff girl BG) but soon ill get something nicer looking like chunnie or I-no. it weighs about 10-15 pounds and its the shape of a mas stick. i used a quantum fighterspad (in which when i posted people said it was not useable) but i got it to work. in any case ive got some people that want to buy my stick so i might start makeing them and selling them.
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Help Metalslug
Sand down the contact point with some fine grit sandpaper. <-- sometimes even if you see clear copper, there may be a thin film that prevents the solder from sticking well.
Wipe it down with a cotton swab and apply some EXTRA flux. Give it another try.
2 joysticks and 20 buttons for 19.95/ea!
I kno i’m late but DAMN!!! how can that be possible??? is there something wrong with the buttons?? I would hella buyt that if i didn already sent out 54$ for the same parts.
Re: 2 joysticks and 20 buttons for 19.95/ea!
The parts on ebay are x-arcade joysticks and buttons, and that is their normal price (maybe $5 less in total, but that’s about it). The price first attracted us to the sticks as we’ve been using them in our tournies for a few months and everyone has enjoyed them.
Happ has countered since then tho, offering their supers (essentially the same product), for $6.99 ea through 3/31. Since x-arcade does not offer convex buttons, we will be going through happ this time, i don’t know what kinda sticks we are getting but we need the convex buttons for marvel/ggxx =P. The only happ stick i never tried is the super so maybe we’ll go with those and i can let you know.
The x-arcade buttons have the resistance of a convex button, but are concave, so it makes them kind of awkward, for SF games they are good, but marvel players have expressed concern about them (when compared to convex buttons i mean).
I believe it’s possible because they want to push the retail/joystick side of the buisness, so the parts they can sell cheaper.
Okay, I’ve read through the entire thread now and I’ve cracked open my Interact Shadowblade.
I’ve noticed that each button and each direction on the crappy joystick has two wires connecting to it. I’m guessing that one of wires is the common ground and the other is the hot wire. I can’t tell if every button direction needs a separate ground. Does anybody know? If there is a single ground, how can I find it? (I’m guessing I use a voltage multimeter but where would I place the contacts?) I’m trying to use Rotendo’s Solder Free Method (page 8 if you have the default view).
I’m also wondering if there’s any way to hook up a Perfect 360 using the shadowblade pcb. Anybody know? If not, I guess I’ll get a 5v plug dealie from Radio Shack so I can have a separate power supply for the stick. If I’m going to do that, can anyone point me towards a site that’ll help me get set up in doing so?
edit: Oops, I forgot to ask this question as well: how do I set up the start and select buttons without having to solder? I really don’t want to solder (i.e. buy the equipment and materials and learn how to solder). On the shadowblade they are sorta connected to the pcb and I don’t think there are any useable wires running from the start/select buttons.
another p360 question
ATTN Metalslug:
Before you said i can use the red wire from the offical psx controller for my +5v. It was only +3v . I was wondering if i can use a +3v from any controller and it will work. because i found a +3v in the psx1000 controller and i can solder on that thing just fine. btw i alrdy ruined my offical psx controller=(
Thanks for all the help
~RaNDoM
Hmmm Oh well. It’s not like I’m going to be making any more sticks after this.
Does anyone use terminal strips here? I remember there was a joystick building site that uses a terminal strip. I was wondering if that would make it possible to use 2 pcbs(psx/dc) with one set of buttons/stick.