If you weren’t planning on soldering the trigger buttons, it should be fine. You have 7 buttons available to solder but I don’t think you can bind action buttons to Back, Start or the Xbox button, so you’ll need the triggers for 6-button fighting games.
The wiring for the triggers is still on the PCB though; you’re not screwed. I can’t identify them though because I’m not familiar with how the triggers are laid out on this controller.
Sorry. What I mean is: I plug the controller into a PC or 360 and both act like the controller is not plugged in at all. Absolutely nothing happens when I plug in the controller.
I installed the most recent 360 controller drivers on PC. Again nothing.
I checked the wires coming from the PCB to the plug. They don’t look damaged, pulled loose, etc.
I tested my wiring with a multimeter and the wiring is good.
I don’t understand how to use a multimeter to check if the PCB is getting power. There are no lights on the PCB to check.
Maybe I’m miscounting, but x, y, a, b, rb and lb make 6 buttons that can be used for the 6 face buttons yes?This is just the pcb after me first opening up the controller (first attempted pad hack) and I figured I might have pulled something off I shouldn’t have. I haven’t tested it ingame or anything though.
Here is a pic of the same pcb from slag coins site:
http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/pcb_diagrams/360_diagram3.jpg
Oh sure. I forgot that XBox has more buttons than the 4 face and 2 triggers. Not a big console gamer myself.
So yea, if you just solder the LB/RB connects, you won’t need to worry about the triggers.
Guys. I’ve a question. Anyone here have hacked a Gamecube pad? Also, i’d like to have a control panel template for a 2P arcade stick. Thanks.
Thanks, Toodles! Hopefully this is clear enough. I tried my best with the camera I had.
Btw guys, as a controller, this is really good for $20. I was testing it out with gears2 and actually preferred it to the standard MS controller. I’m done with wirelessnesss and batteries…
It’s not common ground. Expect to run two wires for every direction/button.
Alright sounds good. Thanks again!
can anyone recommend a ps2 controller to hack(please dont suggest psx, i know they’re godly)
Alright… I just wired up my gamestop xbox 360 PCB and it’s not good so far: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb262/shubacca_album/front.jpg
Start, X, Y, A, B, aren’t working. I tried to short them with a wire and I still got nothing. When I plug it in and turn on the xbox, the interface will show that I’m logging in, and then immediately reboot the whole console. I had to plug it in after turning the xbox on to be able to see that the directions and bumpers were working.
Any thoughts?
EDIT: I figured it out. The problem was that I suck as soldering.
Dual 360 and PS3 stick setup
Hey guys anybody know if this pad is common ground? http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/large_images/512/202119512.jpg It’s the Gamestop Mad catz microcon . Or know of a good 360 pad that is? I wanna make my stick work on dual PS3 and 360 systems. I currently have this cthulhu board setup http://www.joystickvault.com/showphoto.php/photo/1010/cat/676 any info links screen shots on how to do this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and sorry if this was already asked I looked but just didn’t see it I’ll post pics of the stripped board when I get home
Here are a couple of pics of the Mad catz Gamestop microcon 360 pcb that I want to use. I need to know if it is common ground. Toodles told me that it needs to be common ground to piggyback onto his board. Any thoughts?
Four face buttons, both bumpers, start, select, and guide appear to be, so you may be in luck. You’ll need to take a multimeter, set it to check resistance, put one probe on the outermost half of what was the B button, the pad on the far left in the first picture. That half is connected to that waffle section of copper which is common to all of the buttons I listed. Put the other end of the probe on some of the metal where the black wires from the USB connect to the board; either one of the two, it doesn’t matter. Resistance should be low, almost or at 0. Keep the first probe on the same spot, and check each half of the each direction pad, and see if there are pads that show little to no resistance. If so, you’re good to go. Right down or draw down which halvess of the direction pads show no resistance.
Lastly, you do realize that you’ll have to install some resistors on those analog pads since you ripped the analog sticks off, right?
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No I didn’t I really wish I knew that before I started tearing it apart 
oh well no biggie I got it from a friend for free. but I got a buddy who’s pretty good with this stuff maybe he can figure out how to fix it, but just by chance would anybody be able to show me where they (the resistors) go or how many I’ll need? Any pics or guides out there regarding that kind of fix would be sweet. Thanks again Toodles for the info
BTW I flipped the pics so they where the right way up
So I have a TMO Gaming Stick (The vintage marvel to be exact) and want to put a Cthulhu board in along with the Official Sony PS1 digital PCB. Is this possible? Is the PCB in the stick common ground? How easy/difficult would it be to do this. I’m really wanting to play jojo on pc!
thanks,
adam
I just busted open my Wii Hori stick because I can’t stand how it feels playing TVC. I got the buttons desoldered and ready to start wiring.
What I need to know is the wii hori stick common ground, and if so could I get a pic of the ground to use.
THanks
Hey guys. I’m about to install the buttons and stick on my first custom and was wondering about the wiring for a new 360 pad. Heres what I’m thinking I need to do(not all the buttons are there for space but the same idea applies for the rest):
Is that how you would go about it? The joystick goes to ground or common?
Toodles what value ? k? or ohm? resisters do I need???
around 5k ohm each; 4.7k ohm are the easiest to find in that range, but if its anything between 4k-6k, they’ll work fine. You’ll need either 2 and some wire, or 8.
can anyone help me out with my above post?
