Nobody ever answered my question on the problems I was having with soldering, but if it helps anybody else the main issue was that using the dremel to open the traces created a coat of grime on the pcb that I had to wipe away with rubbing alcohol and a q-tip. Also instead of trying to tin the wire and solder the wire to the pcb it worked much better to first heat the pcb and add a small dab of solder, and then solder the wire to that.
Hi i am new to this so go easy on me, but i have a Playstation 1 digital series H controller and im confused a lil bit on the soldering do i solder like the PSX dual shock H one on the first page, by scratching off the black parts or like in this picture
Iām trying to wire a hrap (ps2) to an x360 pcb (standard wired controller) and Iām having trouble wiring the stick.
I soldered the common wire to the inside points of the d-pad and soldered the directional wires to their appropriate spots but whenever I test it out itās all wonky. I tested it using training mode in SF4, whenever I moved the stick it would jump towards my opponent. Any ideas as to what Iām doing wrong?
thanks willy for the info on the usb. everything looks right. anyways i soldered everything according to the diagrams that are out there, but when my x button is pressed the x button action happens then quickly followed by the guide opening up. but pressing the guide only activates the guide. idk what to do. look everywhere to see if anything was getting shorted but everything looks fine in my opinion. was wondering if there was any alternate x button points or maybe anyone else had this problem.
so i traced the problem. my cthulhu board"s punch 1 point is causing the weird anomaly. when āp1/squareā cable comes together with the āxā cable in the terminal strip it cause it to go to guide. when removing the p1 cable, the x works normally. i havent had a chance to test it on a ps3 to see if the home would come up after pressing square. need help asap. i wanna play sf4 with my stick (this is all being tested on the 360)
I know this has been discussed to death but I still canāt get my head around it and was wondering if anyone could help me. Iām trying to wire up the triggers on a xbox 360 wireless matrix controller. So far this has been the best explanation on how to do it that Iāve been able to find. Is this the right way of doing this and for this to work what do I need to do with the actual triggers themselves? Like leave them on, take them off etc?
Yep, for the official controller thatās exactly what you need to do. Remove the plastic trigger hardware and desolder the pots, then solder a resistor and wiring as seen in that pic.
Okayā¦ there are way too many pages to read and decided to stop at 85 from the end of this thread, reading backwards.
Quick questionā¦ so if I decide to wire the triggers on a wired MS xbox 360 controller can I just connect the RT and LT solder points to the signals of my buttons if I leave the triggers on the PCB? Atleast thatās what I got from reading a few pages.
I wouldnāt mind doing the resistor method (if the above method does not workā¦ but Iāll prefer the above since it looks like less work), but I just canāt follow what exactly needs to be done, though I get the gist of it. If someone could explain it to me in a little more detail I think I will be able to get it.
Didnāt even see this or I wouldāve posted about it earlier. If you look on the diagram you copied, the backside shows the connection points for LB and RB. LB shares a common with Left, and RB shares a common with Up, Down, and A. Your chains look fine for what you had.
Check my post directly above yoursā¦ The link I quoted has a pic of exactly how to wire the trigger on the MS official pads with a resistor when you remove the pot. Any resistor from like 5k-10k should be fine.
As for hooking it up without removing the pot, Iām not sure. You canāt just chain the button in to the common with the other buttons, either way, as the triggers are both on a true ground, but all of other buttons and the dpad are on a separate common. Try hooking two wires to the ground and middle pin, plug the controller into your pc, and short them to see if it activates the trigger. If so, youāll be fine, if not, go for the resistor method.
Yes, if you have no intention of using the Triggers as functional on/off buttonsā¦ just leave the pots on there. You may have to adjust them a bit so they are zeroāed out, but if you donāt remove them you donāt have to do the diode bit. But you canāt wire these to any buttons or anything, they will just sit there unused.
If you want to map the triggerās to buttons, you have to zero them out using other methods. I personally have no desire for 8 buttons, I like 6 button layout. So I had no reason to go through these steps. Itās a pain to do itā¦ if you are just going to use it for SFIV easy ultras/throws/FAās.
Hello guys! First of all you had a great forum with lots of information.
I need your help and advice, I bought a copy of SFIV for the 360, so I decided to make amy own custom Arcade controller, using a Mad Catz wired controller ( earlier version) :
So I have some questions, that I have been looking in the forums, but really, I havenāt find them. How can I use the RT and LT Buttons? I know that I need to use some resistors, but I donāt know where to put them.
Also, I wired all the other buttons and the D Pad, and It seems it worked, I mean, I conected the controller to mi PC and all the buttons worked but wht I plugged to the 360 I could use āAā in the menu, but during a fight, only the punch buttons workedā¦ so I have no idea what went wrong, 'cause I plugged again to the pc and all buttons worked perfectly.
I will try to post some pictures, but seriously, I know it donāt make sense, but for example, I plugged it to my 360, and it didnāt worked, then I tried to plug it in my PC and it worked with MAME, I even played Marvel vs Street Fighter and all the punches and kicks worked fine
Iāve seen that picture beforeā¦ but Iām just not sure how the wiring works. So is one of those signal and the other a ground? Or are they both signals and the ground is another wire? Iām just not sure how that works. I read through a bit of the forum as wellā¦ but didnāt come up with any answers.
Thanks for the infoā¦ Iām actually going to use the triggers, so I guess I have to use the resistor method. Back to research.
The link I quoted has a pic of exactly how to wire the trigger on the MS official pads with a resistor when you remove the pot. Any resistor from like 5k-10k should be fine.
