With this pad
http://arkadesticks.com/hackedpads/Xbox360wired.jpg
Where the grounds are on the d-pad, am I able to use the one ground (for example the ground from the Left Direction as grounds for Up, Downd, Right. A quick answer would be appreciated.
hi guys, just wanted to ask about the sync button as i canāt get it to working. Iāve searched the forum and read most of this thread and canāt find nothing. Has anyone actually got the sync button to work?
Iāve decided to try and learn how to padhack, and a friend donated a busted PS2 controller to the cause. Can anyone help instruct me on how to hack this pad?
http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/pcb_diagrams/ps2_diagram7.jpg
Is it common ground? Will I just be soldering each wire to the specified solder point?
hacking a psx pad wasnt as hard as i thought. Did all the work last night and tested everything with an extra hori button i had layin around.
Hi , Just finished soldering ps1 controller , I use āBoom -PSX USB Converterā and the strange thing with this converter is that START Button donāt work , āXā and āOā is the other way arround, so is āSquareā and āTriangleā .
that is not the problem , the problem is if I want to press start, I have to Activate ANALOGUE and press the L3 button it will act as āStartā button".
question: I wired everything and itās working fine except that I donāt know how to wire the L3 button ( the left analogue click), where is the solder point?
anyone ?
are all madcatz usually common ground? my local gamestop has been clearing out everything lately and so their stock is very limited. they do have a few madcatz pointy; like solid color and some of the sport ones.
is it a safe bet that theyāre common ground?
Ok i kno this is proly a dumb question but here goes. Im soldering my madcatz retro arcade gamestick and all the buttons except the start button work. i mean the other buttons are perfect, so the question is did i just mess up when i was soldering the start button and if so is there any way to fix it so it will work
what do you do with the trigger buttons?
i didnt see them labeled in the picture
Triggers on 360 require using a resistor in the circuit, so a lot of people skip them and just got 6 button. If you must use them, itās usually a bit more work.
ya thatās not entirely accurate, I purchased a padhack recently and it required no additional resistor but did have a separate ground I donāt pretend to know how it works but it does work and very well at that. here is my thread on it
How do you know for sure?
He could easily have wired in a resistor that you mistook as being part of the board.
From EVERYTHING I have read, if you want the TRIGGERS to function as buttons you MUST use a high impedance resistor inline.
hmm idk, I guess that makes sense, I assumed it was something to do with the separate ground that got it like that. good point though.
parabellum, thanks for the reply. I just ended up dusting off the white stuff, and it is fineā¦
I did have a question for the people with high soldering skill on the 360 wireless CG pad. What is the best way to deal with these tiny dpad points? They are killing me, and I had to use an alternate point on the other side. Is there a more reliable technique for inserting wire into those pin-sized holes on the PCB? 
I have a DS3 PCB I could use, but any lag AT ALL is unacceptable for me. Is there any evidence to suggest it does or does not lag. Is it a tough pad to hack?
Can anyone suggest a cheap, lag free, easy to hack pad? Iāll get a chthulu at some point, but which of the third party pads is best, for ps3?
For PS3, the chthulu is the best by farā¦no soldering and it performs really well.
If it was 360 compatible, I would never even have thought about pad hacking.
Yeah, Iām aware of that. Iām looking for something to solder to at the moment though, for various reasons.
I didnāt want to make a new thread for something this small and simple, so I thought this might be the most appropriate thread for this.
I donāt have much experience with Seimistu or JFLās so I could use some help here.
I have a Seimitsu LS-32-01 coming in from LL eventually, but it doesnāt come with a 5 pin harness.
Luckily, I was able to get one from a friend of mine, the one he gave me is from his SF4 SE edition, However I donāt know which wire goes to which direction on the D-pad ((Madcatz 360)).
Also, one more question, If I have to rotate the PCB around, will that effect the wire placement on the D-pad PCB?
Hereās the picture of the Harness, If anyone could just basically red pen the photo, that would be awesome.
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=5771841&postcount=40
toodles did a test and found:
āWhat I can say for sure is that anyone using a Sixaxis as the core of their board has nothing to fear from latency. I am seriously impressed with Sony that they were able to pull that off; I did not expect it to perform that well at all. I donāt know whether to feel sad that my board didnāt wipe the floor with the sixaxis, or proud that my board goes toe to toe with Sony engineering. shrugā