Has anyone tried this pad for PC? http://www.madcatz.com/Default.asp?Page=123&CategoryImg=PC_and_Mac_Controllers
It looks pretty good, plug-and-play, XBOX shape and very good for Mame, Kawaks, NeoRageX. I wanna do a PC stick but I need others insights on this before I do this.
PSX PCBās
Since me and my friends couldnāt find any controllers to hack in local game stores, we bought a lot of three PSX Digital pads off ebay. Iāve been reading around that its pretty hard to solder on to, but it was really the only affordable choice for us. I may have missed it in this thread, but iām looking for some pictures or a guide to help us out on this project. If anyone could provide me with some kind of info, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
sup with all the āsuspended siteā messages on the pics in the beginning
NeoGeo, the DC link is all kinds of not working for me, I get a 404 Forbidden. How would you wire a DC to a p360? Or anything to a p360? Isnāt there some weird voltage difference that makes it hard to do on the PS1/Xbox controllers?
man this some bullshit my damn screwdriver wont unscrew my psx controller is there any other way to open a controller?
^is it too thick? If so try going to a dollar store or something for a cheap set of tiny screwdrivers.
If anyone can help, it would be great. I wired this controller in the past, so I know it can be done. I removed the wiring for another controller because I was too lazy to cut, strip and tin new wires. Now I want to use the PCB again, but I donāt know whats whatā I tried the link on arcade controls, but after wiring, itās not the same one lol. I know I should have labeled them before, but enh, I was being lazy yet again. So if anyone recognizes this pcb, can you tell me number goes to what? Unfortunately I donāt even know what series it is, I just know itās gotta be PSX because of the grey wire and the female plug on the other side doesnāt accept the weird plastic ribbon. Thanks!
http://www.arcadefever.net/MYPROJECT/PSX/PSX.html
I just tried this hack and it seems fairly simple. but once i connect it to the buttons, it constantly jumps, when i unground everything it stops, seems to be a problem with the wiring. but thereās only one ground output to this hack, what am i doing wrong?
iām using the daisy chaining method to wiring this, so thereās only one open connection and that leads to the ground on the pcb.
^Wrong ground on the microswitch perhaps? I think you have it wired for when a button is pressed the action is stopped, where an action should occur if the button is pressed.
Any ideas for my PCB guys?
I suggest you just connect it and try some combinations of two wires ingame. Sooner or later you will connect the ground with some input. One of those will be ground for sure. Just connect both of them to the others and se what heappens. With this, youāll find the ground. Now just try it with everything and youāre set. Itās ess complicated than it sounds and on top of that youād want to do manual tests before soldering/connection/closing it anyway.
iāve done some testing to it before i plugged it into my setup to make sure the ground is ok. now iāve got it work for 5 mins then all of a sudden it goes into āturboā mode. itās constantly jumping, weird thing is that it works for a few solid minutes then it just goes into that mode. picking the āturboā button randomly. sometimes itās start, start, start, etcā¦ sometimes itās up, up, up, etcā¦
did i fry the pcb by any chance?
going to do a test on the psone instead of the pstwo.
uhhhā¦ just put in like 3s or something to test the which wire maps to what button. if you had slash, you would be able to figure out your L1,L2,R1,R2 easily.
Your problem most likely if you hacked the ps2 a series. Is that, the analoge/start/select buttons all share a separate ground from the rest of the PCB so if you try to daisy chain them in with the rest it will cause problems, find the extra ground rewire it only to daisy chain with the start and select button and leave all the rest with the normal ground. Try that out, see if it works if not I can help you out further.
Could someone please re-host the images on the first post? The website they were hosted on has killed them.
Thanks!
Bustawolfe, is it just directional actions occuring? I realized with another pcb that the metal analog stick was being pressed and I hadnāt grounded it properly.
Uhhhā¦ Maybe you can mail me your copy of 3s or Slash that tells me which is my ground ok?
Thanks guys. I wanted to avoid finding the ground, and then testing each button. Guess this project is going to wait, I still need to install my car alarm, which is both a priority and a hassle since Iām trying to conceal everything and make the car appear untouched. ā¦and I canāt do my damn remote start since I have no tach lol.
What are the best pc usb pads to hack?
So Iām hacking a PSX H Series, and Iāve run into a problem. Something seems weird with the O button; I wired the ground to the ground next to the O button, and only the O button worked, none of the others. So then I wired a ground next to the Triangle button, and then every button worked except for the O button. So when the ground is only next to the O button, only the O button works; when the ground is only next to the Triangle button, everything but the O button works; when the ground is connected both to next to the O button and next to the Triangle button, everything but the O button works. Whatās going on here?
my last stick (or my only stick) is wired with an H pad.
I didnt wire any grounds close to the button areas themselves,
what I did was, do u kno how thereās the main pcb, and a ribbon wire connecting to a smaller chip where the R & L buttons are (there are 2 of those)??
I cut those ribbon wires off, and used the silver points (where the ribbons met the main pcb) as soldering points for my R1/R2 and ground.
that was the only point on the pcb I soldered a ground to, since the pad shares a common ground w/ every button, and I did a ādaisy chainā (I think thatās what itās called) onto all my microswitches.
of course as ugly as the thing is, it works without a problem. I hope that would help you
Also, where do you guys find PSX pads? If you get them online, how do you make sure which series they are?
UltraD sup dude! If you got problems with soldering and etc.Hit me up.Itās pretty easy.
Itās cool man, Iāve done it a bunch of times before. This is just a particular problem Iāve come across this time. Thanks, though.