The Official Custom Arcade Sticks Thread

[System_1]

Hey Rotendo its not there.

[MegamanDS]

my friend wants to make an arcade stick. he has all the parts, he is making it out of a dreamcast controller buttons and stuff. he cant find out how to put the L and R buttons since it has no wire or anything.

help??

[Rei]

*Originally posted by LotusJuggalo17 *
**Question about third party controllers…
I have read in old Gamepro magazines and a few sources on the internet that third party controllers aren’t the healthiest for your console. Like it may reprogram your controller ports to make the controller ports only use those controllers.

One more question…
How exactly do you hook up TWO controllers to one set of buttons and sticks? Like a DC controller and PSX controller to one set of sticks and buttons. Thanks **

1. Smoking to much pot makes you paranoid.

2. Either hardwire them both to the buttons, in which case you have to be very careful. Do not have the stick plugged into both systems at the same time. Or, you can wire arcade controlls into some sort of harness that disconnects, such as molex, dsubs, barrier strips, etc, then connect the pcbs to the other side of the harness, and connect whichever one you want to use.

Edit: Link

[Mulligan]

im jes curious but what happens when hardwire 2 controllers to ur stick and then connect it to 2 systems??

[Rei]

*Originally posted by Mulligan *
**im jes curious but what happens when hardwire 2 controllers to ur stick and then connect it to 2 systems?? **

Hard to explain, but I will give a rough idea. You end up providing two or more active grounds and lots of weird stuff starts happening. Then you end up with the headaches that have plagued random mai.

[ssjbrydon]

how and the hell do i test for points after i soldered a wire to my ground!!!1

[J-ride]

What do you mean test for points? I just find the ground and just follow the wires around the pad to figure out which buttons are which?

[ssjbrydon]

im working with a ps2 mad catz…and ive gotten 2 ppl to try and help my but to no luck, im still trying to find them. it all looks simple. there my ground, its soldered already, then theres 4 black strips on each side, and some small circle solid silver points. now i placed my ground wire thats soldered in, to a point on the pad where the button/direction point is suppose to be and nothing happens…

[J-ride]

If you could get a good pic, I could probably help you alot more.

[System_1]

quick question about making an arcade stick for a PS2 console. The analog sticks. Do I just leave those alone or am I supposed to hook something up to them? Normally when I play MvC2 on my PS2 I just use the Dpad and don’t even touch the left analog.

[System_1]

Okay, this is my FIRST even messing with electronics but I’ve came pretty far:p. My question is about soldering, I have all of the buttons connected and the joystick and even the layout but HOW DO YOU SOLDER?? I know it’s kind of a stupid question but it’s my first time even picking up a solder??? so anyone help if they can

Jay

[Rei]

*Originally posted by Ensenga *
**Okay, this is my FIRST even messing with electronics but I’ve came pretty far:p. My question is about soldering, I have all of the buttons connected and the joystick and even the layout but HOW DO YOU SOLDER?? I know it’s kind of a stupid question but it’s my first time even picking up a solder??? so anyone help if they can

Jay **

Here is an excellent tutorial.
http://www.kingbass.com/soldering101.html

One thing that you might invest in is a clip-on pcb heatsink. There are lots of problems abound from people overheating the pcb and frying the controller chip.

[ssjbrydon]

*Originally posted by J-ride *
**If you could get a good pic, I could probably help you alot more. **

well thnx for the help anyway j. i got someone to show me what to do last night. just scratch off the black strips and solder a ground and test for the button side.

[System_1]

*Originally posted by Rei *
**
Here is an excellent tutorial.
http://www.kingbass.com/soldering101.html

One thing that you might invest in is a clip-on pcb heatsink. There are lots of problems abound from people overheating the pcb and frying the controller chip. **

Thanx, I hope I don’t burn or fry anything:lol:

Jay

[System_1]

I just finshed making my own custom arcade stick. It has been deemed the name “The Magic Stick”. It took me about a month to make. It is painted gloss black and I am going possbily add some art work to it in the near future. The only reason it to so long is becasue my competition buttons took like 2 weeks to get to my house becasue they were on back order.

Check it out…

[KYO84]

FUCK!!!:mad:

man i tried doing the dc gamepad hack from http://members.cox.net/joysticks/ and i FUCKED UP MY FUCKING DREAMCAST:mad:the control ports got fried,but i got lucky and found an extra dc at gamestop for 29.99 but im still pissed about it cus im retarded.man fuck this shit i cant sodder,im buying a fucking mas stick.i might try again next week once i calm down.peace

[J-ride]

MajinCable: That picture is really blurry, do you have a pad on the top or is that plastic? It looks nice from what I can see.

[System_1]

*Originally posted by J-ride *
**MajinCable: That picture is really blurry, do you have a pad on the top or is that plastic? It looks nice from what I can see. **

My webcam sucks ass. It is plexiglass on the top.

[Vinnyman]

*Originally posted by ssjbrydon *
**

well thnx for the help anyway j. i got someone to show me what to do last night. just scratch off the black strips and solder a ground and test for the button side. **

that’s what i told you!:mad:

[triptacon]

This thread is soooooo long…
Anyways, I tried looking through these
threads to answer my own question but
there’s too much to look through.

Can you modify DC arcade sticks or PSX arcade sticks
to use on Xbox? I have both so I wondering what the
process was. I’ve read about people converting their
saturn stick to use on the xbox.

Thanks in advance.
triptacon